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ABSTRACT
Telstra Ventures partner with the extraordinary! We have developed a world class reputation for identifying, investing, and serving extraordinary entrepreneurs. When asked, we deliver critical thinking that leads to scale and hypergrowth. While enjoying your lunch, come and hear thought provoking and industry relevant discussions from 3 Telstra Venture Companies – Near, CyberGRX and AttackIQ. This will showcase our relationship with leading industry entrepreneurs and provide several examples of how the Telstra Ventures framework can support Defence Industry innovation.

BIOGRAPHY
Ed runs the Australia and NZ business for Near and established the successful new revenue stream in ‘Data Solutions’. In addition to Near’s core business of creating behavioural audiences for highly targeted advertising, this new line of business looks at Operational and Performance improvements for numerous other functions in almost every industry. Recently this has included extensive transmission risk forecasting for Covid, economic and visitor insights for local councils and network planning for major retailers. He has a background in management consulting and has spent the last 12+ years specialising in data and data commercialisation.

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Simon is responsible for building and managing relationships with organisations in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) for AttackIQ. A respected industry expert in the APJ region with over 25 years of sales and management experience, Simon collaborates with the cyber security community to inform and uplift cyber security programs and capability. Prior to AttackIQ, Simon was a senior executive at LogRhythm where he served as Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific. Simon has also held senior sales and leadership roles at Symantec, Commvault and Acronis. Originally from the UK, Simon has lived in Sydney since 1998.

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As VP for APAC and Europe, Anthony leads an international team of pre and post sales engineers in elevating CyberGRX prospect’s, customer’s, and partner’s approach to third party risk management. Focused on evaluating their current approach to supply chain risk due diligence, understand their needs, and provide them with an approach that provides immediate risk visibility across their supply chain leveraging CyberGRX innovative approach to TPRM. Anthony has over 25 years of experience in Cyber Security, prior to CyberGRX he led various teams at McAfee across APAC, where the most recent appointment was the Head of Customer Success APAC.