Jason Sew Hoy - 99designs

An early member of 99designs, Jason has been instrumental in the company’s rapid 5-year growth and global expansion. As Chief Operating Officer and Asia-Pacific General Manager, he is passionate about product strategy, user experience, internationalisation and creating a high-performance product development team.

Born in New Zealand, Jason holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Otago. His previous roles include general management, business development, account management and service delivery positions with tech companies and multinationals.

99designs, the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace, connects businesses looking for design work with more than 225,000 graphic designers from around the world. Founded in 2008, 99designs has hosted more than 235,000 design contests for customers and has paid out $57,000,000 USD to its design community. The company secured $35M in first-round funding in 2011 from Silicon-Valley based Accel Partners and several angel investors.

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Emil Koutanov - Maze Retail

Emil Koutanov is passionate about creating new and profitable ways for software to interact with people.
With more than 15 years of extensive engineering experience, Emil has solved problems across a range of industries – finance, wagering and, more recently, retail.

Emil is a co-founder of Maze Retail – a Sydney-based provider of cutting edge web and mobile technology solutions for the retail industry. Maze Retail specialises in customer relationship management with focus on customer acquisition and loyalty through a range of rewards-based incentive programmes. Maze helps brick-and-mortar and online businesses strengthen customer relationships, retain loyal customers and attract new ones. With Maze, Australian small-to-medium size businesses are empowered with technology that enables them to compete on par and outperform larger competition.

Besides his involvement with Maze Retail, Emil continues to consult a number of Australian businesses, assisting them with product development and enterprise architecture. Emil is also an experienced manager and a respected leader and mentor.

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Julian Khursigara - Your Car Log

Created for the travelling professional, YourCarLog has been designed to make every aspect of maintaining a mileage log a more convenient, user-friendly and time-efficient process.
YourCarLog works on a simple premise – your digital diary is your car log.
With a few clicks you can import your diary, then you will be able to call up a detailed log of all your trips including the date, destinations, the routes taken and any associated notes you attached to the appointment in your calendar. The system does the legwork and saves you the time and hassle of manually completing a paper logbook.

With a background in financial services loyalty, luxury hotels and airlines, Julian brings a wealth of experience in managing teams, establishing processes and user interfaces to get the optimum outcomes for corporates and individuals. He looks forward to a world without paper log books so that he can spend more time watching the Sydney Swans with his two girls whilst listening to his beloved vinyl record collection.

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