Randal Leeb-du Toit – Chief Executive Officer
Rand is a multifaceted entrepreneur and seasoned technologist with a unique blend of vision, oversight and operational experience. A consummate business artist, he has changed thinking at some of the world’s largest publishing houses, jumpstarted over 20 businesses and raised more than half a billion dollars. He has software deployed across over 500 million devices, filed more than 40 patents and his pan-continental canvas extends across a wide range of high tech and media arenas.
He is a veteran of the social business arena. It is over a decade since he helped grow one of the first social business phenomena across 110 cities connecting over 500,000 entrepreneurs and investors.
He has acted as a Strategic Adviser to a number of companies, including Fox Interactive Media (who run one of the largest social networks in the world – MySpace) and Creative Enclave, a social games developer set up by New York Times bestselling novelist, Garth Nix, which developed the first massively multiplayer gaming application on Facebook as a marketing tool for an upcoming novel.
Luke Harvey-Palmer – Innovation Partner
I have never been comfortable with the status quo. It started when I was 6 years old and won an Australia Post design a new stamp competition, and this continued late into the 20th Century where I used technology to disrupt, shape and discover new products, services and markets in Financial Services.
Throughout the 21st Century, I have continued to innovate, working with brilliant and ambitious people alongside brands like Mortgage Choice, The Australian Army, St George Bank, Bain Consulting, Booz Allen Hamilton, CBS Interactive, Clime Investment and Suncorp.
Some of my heroes include Weary Dunlop, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Sir Peter de la Billiere, all men who know how to achieve the impossible, whilst showing great grace, compassion and endeavour…
Like Da Billiere, I still believes that great leaders have great audacity = [Fearless daring; intrepidity. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.]
I continue to innovate and believe in the unwavering spirit of man and woman to continually find ‘a better way’
