May 14, 2015 - Venue: UWA Business School, Hackett Drive, entrance No.4. Enquires: Paul. ... disrupted higher education
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE The Social Marketplace
Mustard Seed Pitch Thursday 14 May 2015 5pm UWA Business School The Social Marketplace Foyer 5pm – 6pm The Mustard Seed Pitch Event Wesfarmers 6pm-9-pm
Venue: UWA Business School, Hackett Drive, entrance No.4 Enquires:
[email protected] An event of the UWA CSI Social Impact Festival http://www.csi.edu.au/events/wa-social-impact-festival-2015/
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Social Marketplace and catch up with
Australia’s cutting edge social entrepreneurs
Host Paul Flatau (UWA CSI Director)
MC Charlie Gunningham (CEO, Business News)
Listen to Keynote Speakers Watch social entrepreneurs pitch their ideas Listen to expert panel responses Vote for your favourite pitch
Robin McClellan (Director, Minerals Research Initiatives at Curtin University)
Robin has taken a dip in the waters of Antarctica, speaks five languages, has prepped the President of the USA, walked to Mt. Everest base camp, taken a week long boat journey with 100 entrepreneurs, worked around the globe for the US Department of State including as WA's US General Consul, has four children, has just been appointed the new CEO of Leadership WA.... and she is passionate about doing business differently!
Lisa Barrett (Partner, Mustard Seed)
Lisa will talk about MOOCs, EdTech, and What is Happening in Digital Education. Lisa was previously a Director at Coursera.com, the world largest massive open online course platform, based in Silicon Valley. Coursera has disrupted higher education by putting content from the world's best schools online, for anyone, for free. Is this the death knell for higher education as we know it? The story is actually a lot more complex.
Lisa Cotton is passionate about how private resources can be used more effectively for public good. She is Co-Founder and CEO of The Funding Network Australia. Prior to that spent 7 years at Social Ventures Australia as Director Social Investment. Lisa is former Chairperson of Documentary Australia Foundation and Board Director of School Aid Trust.
The Social Marketplace
Mustard Seed
Pitch
Mycovative is a biotechnology company aiming to spread sensible consumerism through the production of not only sustainable products and materials, but efficient, innovative and practical ones that outcompete their unsustainable conventional counterparts
Rana Clothing makes it easy to find sweatshop free fashion. We sell ethically made clothes via a carbon neutral online store, and donate 20% of profits to charity
MyGuru Algae Process Simulator Fast tracking the development of sustainable algae fuels, foods and products using solar energy
creating a smarter, more efficient online educational support service that is accessible by all Australian students
WASH for the World
ProphetAble is a collaborative management system specifically designed for the community sector taking into account the many specific and unique requirements that the community sector needs to deal with on a daily basis
Is a social enterprise that cares for the Health of People and Our Environment through sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) solutions. We sell environmentally friendly personal care and household cleaning products and commit profits from sales to funding your choice of WASH project in disadvantaged communities around the world
Cruxcee is a web based business network that connects social enterprise with global supply chains. We lower the barriers associated with social procurement and help social enterprise scale through increased access to opportunities.
eKarma is a tech-social enterprise which raises funds for charities by using the power of online shopping. Shoppers shop via eKarma for their favourite brands or products on more than 250+ existing partnered online shops that give commission to eKarma for every transaction and eKarma donates 50% of this commission to the charity nominated by the shopper.
The Fabric Social Bombora Wave Power is a pioneering, award winning Wave Energy Converter system developer and renewable energy Company. We are a start-up solving aspects of modern societies needs around food, water, shelter, energy and provide leisure time facilities.
Ethical fashion hand-loomed by women affected by conflict in Northeast India. Economically empowering women to repair the social fabric of their communities.
PlayBiz African Dream Leadership Centre A company that provides leadership development services to companies, institutions and schools. As a result, part of the profit will fund The African Dream Benefit scholarship fund and educational projects that benefit youth of disadvantaged backgrounds
PlayBiz gives children the best start to school - it's affordable, easily accessible and FUN!!
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Director and co-founder of Linc Property and previously a Director and co-founder of Azure Capital and a Director of Poynton and Partners. Ben has a number of interests in the not for profit sector, working with organisations in the prevention of youth suicide, anti-human trafficking and Aboriginal development.
Brodie McCulloch is Managing Director of Spacecubed. a coworking, collaboration and innovation community and space at 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia. Spacecubed enables a diverse community of over 550 entrepreneurs, innovators and changemakers to take their ideas to the next level. Spacecubed reduces the barriers for individuals and organisations to get their ideas to market through space, networks, mentoring, accelerators and hackathon’s.
Tracey Horton is currently a Non-Executive Director for SKILLED Group, Navitas Limited and Automotive Holdings Group. In addition to these corporate roles, Tracey participates in community activities as President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WA) and a member of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Board; Chair of Council of Presbyterian Ladies College; and Chairman of Perth Fashion Concepts Incorporated.
Michelle Coelho is the State Manager for WA of BeyondBank Australia. She is passionate about 'people helping people' which is in line with BeyondBank's vision of providing 'the other way to bank' where 100% of profits are reinvested into the community.
Geoff Pritchard has led several companies through both organic and acquisition channels and as a ‘growth CEO’ is a threetime finalist in the BRW Fast 100 including an 8th place in 2011. Geoff’s experience was developed in global strategy, advisory and private equity businesses across three continents with Fortune 100 businesses, including eight years as CEO of three of Australia’s most successful financial advisory, wealth management and investment businesses. As CEO of the Western Pacific Group he took the company over a two year period from a valuation of $1.2 million to being listed at a valuation above $100 million. Geoff is the co-founder of Go Capital, a strategy consulting, corporate advisory and private equity business and Innovation Bay in Perth, Western Australia with a key focus in the technology sector and bringing technology entrepreneurs and angels together.
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Jenna Palumbo brings a wealth of experience in finance and management. Her expertise includes social impact bonds, policy advocacy, corporate finance and corporate strategy. Jenna has held positions with Big Society Capital, Social Finance UK, Azure Capital and KPMG Corporate Finance, as well as advisory roles with a number of not for profit organisations and impact investing funds in Australia and the UK. Jenna is currently the WA Director for Social Ventures Australia.
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Jemma Green worked as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan’s London office in the early 2000’s and was chosen o help setup J.P. Morgan’s Global Environmental and Social Risk Management Office. It was during her work here that she began to realise the full potential for increasing ethics and responsibility in corporate organisations. In 2013, Jemma left J.P. Morgan and returned to Australia to set up The Green Enterprise. Jemma is also a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Curtin University, on the advisory board of Carbon Tracker and a founding board member of Future Super, Australia’s first fossil fuel free superannuation fund.
Dwight Clark has spent over 15 years providing advice to a small number of clients (successful individuals, their family groups and not-forprofit organisations), with specialties in the areas of Taxation, Superannuation, Philanthropy & Social Enterprise, Wealth Security and Succession planning.
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Workshop Facilitators Katie Stubley
Vicky Dodds has had a 20 year career in fundraising, philanthropy and communications in museums, science, health and the higher education sector. She currently works with a range of not-for-profits providing support and advice on strategy, stakeholder engagement, fundraising, philanthropy and communications.
For the last six years Katie has been immersed in the social enterprise field both internationally and locally. She uses her background in education, social process design and resource development to find the most useful tools and design processes for social entrepreneurs. Katie is passionate about developing a strong eco-system to foster social impact.
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He n r y Wig an Co-Founder & Director of Investment Formerly Director and Portfolio Manager at BlackRock in London, LSE Hons Economics
The Mustard Seed Team
Ale x Pit t Co-Founder & Director of Incubation
Mustard Seed is a global network of investors that looks for, invest in, and incubates early-stage companies with the potential to generate significant positive social and environmental outcomes
Formerly Senior Vice President at Mubadala in Abu Dhabi Stanford MBA
Lisa Bar r e t t
…Connecting a dynamic and influential network of global members with exceptional entrepreneurial talent from top universities …Enabling and empowering talented and visionary graduates to create socially impactful and environmentally sustainable businesses So cial en t r ep r en eu r s su b m it t in g a p r o p o sal w ill r eceive p it ch an d b u sin ess/so cial im p act p lan n in g ad vice at a Wo r ksh o p o n 7 May 2015 at t h e UWA Bu sin ess Sch o o l Th is is an in vit at io n o n ly even t .
COO & Director of Impact Former Director of Global Partnership Strategy at Coursera.com INSEAD MBA
How it Works The pitch competition is open to social businesses in start-up or early growth phase, who can clearly identify a social and/or environmental mission, their target market, and how they plan to scale their business and also a measurable impact. Interested teams should read the pitch event particulars document, prepare a two-minute pitch video, and submit their entries via the Mustard Seed website. All teams are welcome to the final pitching event on May 14.
How Mustard Seed Invests Mustard Seed cares about your motivations: Why are you starting a company? From the final event, the Mustard Seed Investment Committee will select the Top 5 Finalists for consideration (the Audience will select one of these finalists.) There is no guarantee of investment. Mustard Seed typically invests between $100,000 and $800,000 and provides significant support toward scaling through its global member network.
