Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Sydney based CEO’ operating in the Marketplace space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Tim Fung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Airtasker
Tim is a director and a founding member of the Tank Stream Ventures Investment Committee. Tim is a technology investor and entrepreneur with extensive experience in web start-ups, business development, marketing and finance. He is a co-founder and CEO of Airtasker, an online and mobile services marketplace that has raised over $1.5m in venture capital. Tim is a co-founder at Tank Stream Labs and before this, was a founding team member and investor in amaysim – a mobile virtual network startup, where he played a key role in raising significant venture capital from a range of HNW individuals and institutional investors.Prior to this, Tim spent five years as a corporate advisor and investment banking executive at Macquarie Bank. He is also an investor and advisor at several web startups, including online custom clothing business Joe Button, and motorsport event management group, Circuit Club.
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About Airtasker, Joe Button, Tank Stream Labs: Airtasker is an online and mobile marketplace that connects people and businesses with local community members.
Alec Lynch
Founder & CEO of DesignCrowd
Alec Lynch is the founder and CEO of DesignCrowd & BrandCrowd. A crowdsourcing service headquartered in Australia which operates two design crowdsourcing marketplaces DesignCrowd.com and BrandCrowd.com. DesignCrowd launched in January 2008 and in 2011 received $3M from Starfish Ventures. Previously, Alec worked at Booz & Co as a strategy consultant and studied a Bachelor of Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney where he was awarded the University Medal. In 2011 and 2012, Alec was named in Australia’s top “30 Under 30” entrepreneurs.
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About BrandCrowd, DesignCrowd: DesignCrowd is an online marketplace that offers logo, website, print, and graphic design services.
Will Davies
Founder & CEO of Car Next Door
Will Davies, Car Next Door’s CEO, is an entrepreneur and (before he started his own car share company) long-time member of car share platform GoGet. Will sees sustainable business as key to addressing the environmental challenges the world is facing, and wants to empower people to take steps in their everyday lives to reduce their climate change impact. He loves his bike, and cycles to Car Next Door’s co-working office each day. He rents out his own car through Car Next Door. Will drives occasionally, like when he heads home with the kids to visit his parents in the country.
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About Car Next Door: Car Next Door is an online marketplace, providing a booking system and a range of in-vehicle technologies to make car-sharing safe and more.
Greg Symons
Founder and CEO of Clearmatch
Greg Symons is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of SocietyOne and founder of ClearmatchTM. A driven lifetime entrepreneur, Greg has been highly focused in business start-ups in the financial technology space. Greg’s specialty is in developing web-based, industrial grade financial banking and origination systems. With ClearmatchTM, he continues to pioneer disruptive and globally relevant P2P investment and lending platform models for both consumers and institutions. Prior to co-founding SocietyOne in 2011, Australia’s pioneering and largest consumer finance marketplace (peer-to-peer) lender, Greg was based in New Zealand where he and his technology team developed the first online retail lending system in the country in 2000. Greg continued to evolve the platform into a comprehensive banking solution when it was licensed to a number of banks and finance companies in South Africa, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia. ClearmatchTM is now a unique SAAS-based direct investment/borrow market ecosystem solution that powers SocietyOne and other finance market companies. Greg is married to Clare and has three children.
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About Clearmatch, SocietyOne: Clearmatch is a marketplace treasury where loan originators can access competitive funding from fixed income investors real-time.
Bridget Loudon
Founder & CEO of Expert360
Bridget Loudon is the CEO of Expert360, Australia’s leading online marketplace for the elite freelance consulting talent. Since cofounding Expert360 in 2013, Bridget has led the company to become a global Talent-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform, most recently overseeing its expansion into the US and enabling a new market for readily available elite capability and expertise. Bridget is a digital native and a former management consultant from top tier firm Bain & Company. Running successful businesses and start-ups is in Bridget’s blood. She started her first business in high school, which she sold successfully, whilst in University. A recognised thought leader in the future of talent and professional services, she has won numerous accolades and awards, including NAB 2014 Women’s Agenda Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, FutureMakers list of Australia’s top 25 Emerging Entrepreneurs, and Shoestring’s Top 50 Australian female entrepreneurs under 40.
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About Expert360: Expert360 Marketplace empower thousands of organisations to build, scale and manage flexible, on-demand workforces.
Joshua Rogers
Interim CEO of Search Party
Josh has over 25 years of start-up experience across more than 40 businesses as a principal, operational executive and/or investor. With a passion for online marketplaces, Josh was a founding shareholder and IPO exiter in Feelancer and is currently a substantial shareholder and director of The Search Party.
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About Search Party: The Search Party is an online recruitment marketplace that helps businesses find talent faster, easier, and at a lower cost.
Darren Scott
Co-Founder and CEO of TEX
Darren Scott is the CEO and Co-Founder of TEX.
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About TEX: TEX is an open video-based marketplace that enables real-time learning and upskilling by connecting people one-to-one with the right expert.
Eamonn Egan
Founder & CEO of Cellar Link Marketplace
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About Cellar Link Marketplace: B2B and B2C Marketplace for Global Beverage Supply, using the latest in AI, personalisation, geofencing and alike
Lauren Silvers
Co-founder & CEO of Glamazon
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About Glamazon: Glamazon is Australia’s first national real time marketplace for beauty appointments, at-home, or in-salon.
David Smyth
CEO of Scouta
David Smyth joined Complish as Co-founder & CEO in 2020.
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About Complish, Scouta: Scouta is a talent referral marketplace for companies you’ll want to work for.
Ranin Mendis
CEO of LoanDolphin
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About LoanDolphin: LoanDolphin is a loan bidding marketplace where banks and brokers compete to win your Home Loan.
Dominic Woolrych
Founder & CEO of LawPath
Dominic Woolrych is the Co-founder & CEO at Lawpath.
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About LawPath: LawPath is an online legal service platform for small to medium businesses and consumers.
Sunil Aranha
Founder and CEO of ThinCats Australia
Sunil Aranha is a Founder and CEO at ThinCats Australia Pty Ltd company. He attended Scuola Superiore Enrico Mattei in 1982
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About ThinCats Australia: Online business marketplace lender
Pradeep Konduru
CEO of cvHatch
Pradeep Konduru is the co-founder and Head of Growth of cvHatch.com – world’s largest marketplace and community for career mentoring and support.
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About cvHatch: cvHatch is the world’s largest marketplace and community for career mentoring and support.
Noga Edelstein
CEO & Co-Founder of UrbanYou
Founder at UrbanOutsource
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About UrbanYou: UrbanYou is Australia’s Leading Marketplace for On-demand Home Services!
David Jackson
Founder and CEO of FundX
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About FundX: FundX is a marketplace invoice financing platform that offers a fast, simple and efficient way to fund your businesses cash flow gaps.
Ash Attri
Founder & CEO of Super Heroes Australia
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About Super Heroes Australia: Super Heroes is a Sydney based online market place for home services that helps connect customers with domestic service experts.
Chris Noone
CEO of Carly Holdings
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About Carly Holdings: Carly Holdings engages in the collaborative consumption business that creates peer-to-peer marketplaces.
Bruno Szajer
Co-founder & CEO of Stillwhite
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About Stillwhite: World’s largest wedding dress marketplace.
Taryn Williams
CEO & Founder of The Right Fit
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About The Right Fit: The Right Fit is an online community that connects its users with models, actors, photographers, makeup artists, and stylists.
Daniel Gunning
Co-Founder / CEO of Spacenow
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About Spacenow: Spacenow is a marketplace where you can rent any space on demand, in a flexible way. Rent by the hour, day or month.
Liz Kaelin
CEO & Founder of You Chews
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About You Chews: A curated online marketplace for delicious corporate catering
Caroline Boulom
CEO, Co-Founder of Rewildin
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About Rewildin: Rewildin is an travel marketplace listing private camping, glamping, ecolodges and Earth-skills workshops in Australia. Launch 15/08/2017.
Caroline Boulom
CEO, Co-Founder of Rewildin
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About Rewildin: Rewildin is an travel marketplace listing private camping, glamping, ecolodges and Earth-skills workshops in Australia. Launch 15/08/2017.
