Kylie Frazer is a co-founder and partner of Flying Fox Ventures, an early stage investment firm supporting Australian and New Zealand founders with global ambition. Flying Fox has over 30 companies in its portfolio and has enabled hundreds of folks to start or turbocharge their investment journeys. Kylie brings empathy to the founder experience, having founded the two technology businesses. She has almost two decades of experience as a corporate transactions lawyer (M&A, capital raisings, and IPOs) and is a capable company director.

Terry Rich is a successful CEO and President of 25 years who loves to engage and entertain audiences across the globe. During his appointment by three Governors, his leadership increased lottery sales and profits by 50%. He also led the Blank Park Zoo to profitability from a $600,000 deficit while positioning it as the second largest attended attraction in the state. But his national insight on business, banking, gaming, TV production, marketing and PR led him to success in his professional career and to his passion for public speaking. Oh, and he’s also given away over $1 billion. Recently, Terry headed the team that cracked the largest lottery fraud in US history. During the investigation, Terry oversaw day-to-day operations while considering longterm consequences, adapting quickly to change, and delivering on promises. Before that, he started four successful entrepreneurial businesses, and has numerous national media appearances including ABC, NBC, HBO, CBS, 20/20, CNN, CNBC, USA Today and The New York Times; a movie host on Starz!; and appeared as a panel guest on the "Tonight Show". He’s a disruptive innovator and entrepreneur with a drive for integrity and honesty. He’s worked in the trenches, survived new business trends and had success with generational changes. Terry’s keynotes are energetic, motivating and perfect for an early morning, lunch or after dinner presentation. Terry Rich has authored two books: The $80 Billion Gamble and Dare to Dream, Dare to Act.

Cheryl is the CEO of Aussie Angels, on a mission to democratise angel investing in Australia & NZ. She’s an active angel investor with 20+ investments, a Venture Partner at Black Nova VC, and leads an angel syndicate with over 130 investors. She’s a strategic advisor for several startups, and in her spare time, she mentors for programs including Startmate and Founder Institute. A community-builder at heart, she recently held leadership roles at Stone & Chalk, and the Australian Computer Society. Before that she was the CEO of StartCon for 4 years, and created the APAC-wide Pitch for $1M competition. In case that’s not fun enough for you, Cheryl is also regularly featured on Startup Daily as the Pitch Doctor.

As the first half of 2022 closes, a new page in Changing the Game starts as I share a table with a guest for the first time, a moment I had the pleasure of sharing with the amazing Esther Oh. Describing her background is a little hard since there seems to be very little she hasn’t done. Esther has several qualifications in fields from IT to law, having worked in the boards and committees of several universities, and having received a ministerial appointment for reforming the TAIFF. However, what brings Esther to this episode of changing the game is less her extensive list of titles and achievements, and more the story of how she came to add “entrepreneur” to her already prolific resume. This story, unfortunately, starts with her having to go through a rather traumatic event: Agile 8 Esther describes herself as a mother who’s had her vision transformed by a series of traumatic experiences, and came to find an answer in technology for the issues that contributed to her tribulations. Agile 8, is the result of this broadening of vision, a company that combines AI with enhanced virtual reality to empower health professionals with something akin to x-ray vision, allowing them to work smarter, faster, and safer. Her story is the perfect example of how the hardest blows life deals us often prepare us with the strength to change the game. “How?” you may ask? By making the commitment of not allowing what happened to us to happen to others. Empathy can make an innovator out of anyone. Sight Lost So, what was the traumatic experience that lead to the founding of Agile 8? Well, let us begin by saying that Esther’s son was a perfectly healthy boy who began to develop some sight issues. As any mother would, Esther took him to a doctor, the first doctor, who was not aware of the gravity of the illness affecting her son’s eyes, a mistake shared by the second doctor, a mistake which the third doctor affirmed could have been corrected had it been identified earlier. This was how, while still a child, Esther’s otherwise perfectly healthy son lost his sight permanently. Vision Gained Esther went through what might be a mother’s worst nightmare, to see her son suffer for the rest of his life due to an issue that could have been avoided were it not for a series of problems that impeded the ability of health professionals to operate at their best capacity. Firstly there was the knowledge gap that existed between doctors, as neither of the first two specialists, Esther visited had the same knowledge as the last one, which inevitably lead to the delay in treatment that cost her son’s sight. This is when she realised that the ability of frontline doctors to accurately diagnose an issue as soon as possible not only could have helped her son but could effectively be the difference between life and death for thousands of people. But where this kind of suffering can enclose many of us in our own struggles, her background as a health professional and entrepreneur allowed Esther to see herself as part of a much larger problem. A problem she could give her best to solve. What is Innovation? And this is exactly how she defined innovation: problem-solving. To be more specific, Esther defined innovation as problem-solving using through tackling it from different perspectives, that is, to find and try all possible solutions for solving that problem in the most efficient way. This process starts with a deeper renewal and transformation of your mind. Where other parents could be “wallowing in sorrow and blaming the doctors who didn’t get it right”, Esther took a completely different route. She saw the severe pressure frontline doctors endured and decided that instead of adding to that the weight of her sorrow, she was going to make their jobs and lives easier through the implementation of technology. Conclusion At the end of our talk, the single most important lesson Esther Oh had taught was this: that suffering can enable you to make the...

Greg’s extensive experience in corporates, SMEs and start- ups, has helped him hone a unique set of skills that recognises where enabling technologies combined with highly- scalable business models can result in fundable high performance operating businesses. With over 20 years experience in most facets of the emerging technology sector, Greg ran what was the first technology incubator in Perth, managed a fund investing in technology start-ups, has been a co-founder of a number technology businesses and more recently as an adviser to founders on how to become investment ready, how to get scale, create and capture value and how to position their ventures to harvest returns for shareholders, investors or stakeholders. In 2020, Greg was recognised as the Australian Angel Investor of the Year and was awarded the 2020 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award.

Dan Jovevski has a deep background in financial services and technology over the last 12 years in the consumer credit space. Prior FinTech founder with an exit (built and sold SwitchMyLoan.com.au to ASX listed Pioneer Credit). A lot of problems I saw in the consumer space with credit have bothered Dan, so he got sick and tired of waiting for someone to solve it, so he created WeMoney.

Monique is the living example that combining a challenging and successful career with a very intense personal life is possible! She is the mother of 3 kids under the age of 5, including a set of twins, and is one of the Managing Partners at Visagio - a global consulting company. Engineer by background, she was born in Brazil and joined the company as an Intern, becoming a partner only 4 years later, as a recognition for being a top performer. She is extremely passionate about developing people, and her happiness comes from seeing the success of others. Is an advocate for diversion and inclusion in Australian workplaces, and knows there is a lot more that can be done in this space.

Grace Mugabe CPA, GAICD is an award-winning money management expert and speaker who specializes in narrowing the financial wealth and information divide that acutely impacts women and minorities. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, Grace walked away from a lucrative financial role in the mining sector to reroute her skills around financial literacy, management and business development to help improve the earning potential and financial infrastructure of businesses and communities led by underrepresented women and minorities.