with Adam Dill-Macky and Sam Smeaton

 

Adam Dill-Macky - SportHold

UTS Design grad turned entrepreneur. 2 years experience as Head of Design & UX at goCatch. Now Founder & CEO of SportHold.

SportHold is the prediction game for all sports. Pick the winner of any sport and challenge your friends to be #1. Follow all your favourite competitions, teams & matches. Get alerts prior to matches prompting you to pick the result. Pick who you think will win the match & by how much. Unlock helpful data to have a better chance of picking the winner. Earn points by correctly picking the winner of the match. Earn medals & trophies for reaching different goals & milestones.

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Dan Draper - Codehire

I started programming computers when I was 12 years old. I've always loved technology but even more than that I've loved the convergence of business and technology.

I quit Uni in my final year when I took a job with an IT services firm but I only lasted 18 months before I decided to go out and play startup. I teamed up with an old high school buddy, Paul Bladon and together we created NetFox, an IT security company specialising in Internet safety products for schools.

We took on investors, built a team and for a while did pretty well. At only 25 we both got distracted and ended up creating a subsidiary firm, Codefire - a web development and consulting company. After a while we realised that running two companies was not as easy as we thought and NetFox started to struggle. We had a big project go awry with Codefire and ended up close to financial ruin.

At that point I realised I had to focus. Paul took a step back from the businesses and I set about getting things back in shape. I slimmed down the teams and while we kept the NetFox IP, sold off all of its contracts to competitors. I focussed all of my attentions on Codefire and over the next three years was able to grow it to a profitable 14 person shop.

Eventually, though I grew tired of the consulting game and gradually wound the company back to a small, distributed team having sold some IP and contracts and began looking to the next opportunity.

I worked for a year as CTO of a digital marketing firm while I began planning my next venture. With a new business partner, Nathan Hockley, we are building Codehire to help software companies hire and attract better coders.

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Sam Smeaton - nVision Talent

I am a part business owner in an IT recruitment agency which specialises in placing candidates with skills in Cloud computing technologies such as Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Amazon Web Services as well as more traditional ERP/CRM technologies (SAP, Oracle). Currently we have offices in Sydney and Melbourne and a combined 15 years Recruitment experience.

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