Facilitators
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.
Our LUNA Facilitators include:
ASHLEIGH CAMM, BOARD COURSE DIRECTOR & VP OF LABS
Ashleigh Camm runs Labs at LUNA and is an Industry Teaching Fellow in the Entrepreneurship Portfolio at Monash University.
Ashleigh’s experience spans 15+ years across Australia and the UK working with the likes of Macquarie, Westpac, and one of the world’s most successful retail entrepreneurs. She’s spent her career supporting founders, CEOs, management teams and boards in strategy, M&A, investor relations, communications, governance, and sustainability, and in the design and facilitation of programs, workshops, events, and more, from both an in-house and advisory perspective.
Most recently prior to LUNA, Ashleigh was an Expert in Residence in Byron Bay where she ran a Pre-Accelerator Program for purpose-led founders as well as the StartUp Northern Rivers community, which focused on supporting the local ecosystem to connect and flourish.
If you know Ash, you’ll know she’s incredibly passionate about governance and doing more responsible business, creating and elevating best practice, and building great relationships with supportive investors - essential ingredients for building and managing a Board that’s going to support your startup to scale and thrive.
RICHARD TAN, SENIOR LAWYER & HEAD OF HIGH GROWTH & SCALING STARTUPS
Richard is a senior lawyer and heads up our High Growth and Scaling Startups Team.
Richard joined LUNA after four years at Envato, where he was most recently Legal Director – providing legal support across the business, ranging from growth and product initiatives, marketing, people/employment issues, regulatory matters and corporate and Board governance. He also managed a number of strategic transactions for the company, including acquisition and investment activity, as well as the full range of commercial contracting for the company. Prior to Envato, Richard was a Senior Associate at Ashurst, an international law firm, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and corporate advisory/governance.
In particular, he has advised companies across a range of growth stages to build fit-for-purpose and scalable Board and governance processes - and really enjoys leveraging his corporate law expertise to support faster and better decision making. Having worked across both advisor and client sides, Richard brings deep experience and execution capability, delivered through a pragmatic, commercial and client-focussed lens.
LUKE GENSLER, VP OF ACCOUNTING, HIGH GROWTH & SCALING STARTUPS TEAM
Luke is the VP of Accounting in LUNA’s High Growth & Scaling Startups Team.
Luke joined LUNA after holding senior finance positions in high-growth startups in Australia and New Zealand. He started his career as an early staff member at Future Super. He worked at Future Super in virtually every role with his last three years as the CFO and Company Secretary for all Future Group companies. During this time there, he helped the company scale every aspect of its operations as it grew in size from <$25m in funds under management to over $3b when he left. During his last three years at Future Super, he was the CFO and Company Secretary, working closely with the management team as the company handled multiple capital and debt raises, acquisitions and divestments, and scaling operations. Prior to joining LUNA, Luke most recently worked at Hnry, a New Zealand-based accounting startup, where he was the first internal finance hire and led the company through its first financial audit.
Luke joined LUNA to help scaling startups manage their financial operations. He is an ardent believer in developing financial operations and processes that can help the company rapidly scale without adding unnecessary administrative burdens to the team.
Investors & Operators
We are grateful to be joined by a number of investors in the Course, via pre-recorded interviews on particular topics, as well as live AMAs during the Course Cohort from time-to-time.
Our guest investors and operators include:
REBECCA WENDLAND, INVESTOR, FOLKLORE VENTURES
Bec Wendland, Investor at Folklore Ventures, has over 10 years of experience as a founder, investor, consultant and startup mentor. She joined Folklore from VC-backed startup, Emmi, where she operated as Chief Operating Officer, taking the firm from concept to scale-up. As an Investor, Bec engages with the best and brightest in the ANZ ecosystem, ensuring Folklore makes investments in game-changing companies. Delivering strong outcomes for founders and our investors.
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.