Advisory Board
Our Startup Board Course has been designed in collaboration with experts that have been in the early-stage trenches and the challenges of scaling, all the way through to those that have IPO’d into full-disclosure listed environments.
Thank you to our incredible Advisory Board: Kirstin Hunter of Techstars, Adam Milgrom of Giant Leap, and Jacqui Purcell of TDM Growth Partners.
KIRSTIN HUNTER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, TECHSTARS (NSW)
Kirstin is the Managing Director (NSW) at Techstars - the world’s largest pre-seed investor. Kirstin is an experienced start-up and high-growth business executive with a focus on fintech businesses at the intersection of activism and capitalism: co-Founder and former CEO at Future Super, former executive at Brighte, founding chairperson at Ocean Impact Organisation and long-time mentor with Blackbird's Giants and Startmate programs. In her spare time Kirstin is on the board of Morphic Ethical Equities (ASX:MEC) and parent to 9 year old Elizabeth.
ADAM MILGROM, PARTNER, GIANT LEAP
Adam is a Partner at Giant Leap, Australia’s first venture capital fund 100% dedicated to investing in impact start ups, whose mission is to back game-changing founders re-imagining industries and using business as a force for good. Adam is a serial Investor with expertise across consumer marketing, ecommerce and innovation. Over the last 15 years, Adam has been on the board of a number of organisations including early-stage startups, not-for-profits and established companies and currently serves as a Director at Giant Leap, Tripple, Future Group and Australian Communities Foundation.
JACQUI PURCELL, OPERATING PARTNER, TDM GROWTH PARTNERS
Jacqui joined TDM in 2022. She was previously the CFO of Culture Amp when TDM first invested in the business in 2019 and has remained close with the TDM family ever since. Having served as CFO of two of Australia’s leading high-growth SaaS businesses, Culture Amp and Deputy, Jacqui is excited to bring her wealth of experience as an operator to the TDM Investment Team and Operation Advisory Team.
Prior to joining Culture Amp in 2017, Jacqui spent a decade working and studying in the United States. She was an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Mergers and Acquisitions team in New York, and prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Jacqui spent two years in the heart of Silicon Valley, pursuing an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.