Randal (Rand) Leeb-du Toit
Rand is a business artist. He has changed thinking at some of the world's largest publishing houses, jumpstarted over 20 businesses and raised more than half a billion dollars. He has software deployed across over 250 million devices, filed more than
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.seggr.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet, Media |
| Location: | Sydney, Australia |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | advertising, branded entertainment, branding and identity, brands, capital raising, chairman, coaching, corporate development, deal maker, director, entrepreneur, evangelist, incubation, ip management, Law, leadership, mergers & acquisitions, pattern recognition, portfolio management, Private Equity, publisher, Strategy, technology transfer, Venture Capital |
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He is currently immersed in building Seggr, a social brand and innovation agency.
He regularly undertakes keynote engagements and is a co-founder of Innovation Bay, a Sydney-based business and angel network.
He was CEO of a social media software company headquartered in Burlingame, California. He was Chairman of Tigerspike and lead investor in 5th Finger, both leading mobile advertising companies.
Rand was an Executive Director at NICTA, a prestigious Australian Center of Excellence focused on applied research in Biomedical & Life Sciences, Environmental Management, Intelligent Transport Systems, Mobile Systems & Services, Safety & Security and Software Infrastructure.
During his tenure at NICTA, Randal spun out a number of venture-backed companies, for example Open Kernel Labs. Their micokernel is deployed in over 250 million devices;
He was previously CEO of an early stage venture capital firm. Portfolio companies included:
* Genetraks, a personalized medicine and bioinformatics company; and
* 5th Finger, a mobile marketing company that has spearheaded more than 5,000 integrated mobile campaigns.
In the 90's, he set up a global think tank which focused on using pattern recognition to uncover disruptive technologies. Before that, as an intrapreneur within a major publishing conglomerate he
* built a specialist legal vertical portal; and
* created ComStrata, a software as a service solution for the strata property management industry.
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Karen Arvidsson
Follow me on Twitter: @creatingchange - experienced, creative, innovative, collaborative and strategic thinker/leader/designer/writer. Iconoclastic (Berns), it seems! I work alone or in teams on projects.
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Steven Carlson
10+ years of career experience as an online marketer, with executive positions in web analytics, VoIP, ISP and social networking. Have taken part in starting, building and growing three businesses. Manage collaborative blog (nowEurope) for the EU.
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Parie Markowitz
Journalism & Communications graduate from Lehigh University, Master's degree from Northwestern University. Senior partnership marketing and business development professional at MTV Networks Kids & Family Group.
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Mick Liubinskas
Bachelor of Business from University of Newcastle (1993–1995), Chief Marketing Officer at Tangler (10/2006-1/2008), Co-Founder/Web Strategist at Pollenizer Pty Ltd. since Oct-2007.