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Discover our expert mentors at iAccelerate

Connect with the right mentor for your startup

iAccelerate mentors are dedicated to giving back, nurturing startups and guiding them through the entrepreneurial journey. With their invaluable expertise and support, they help you navigate challenges and achieve success. Join our vibrant community, where collaboration and shared knowledge drive greatness. Experience the iAccelerate ecosystem, a hub for startup support and growth in Australia.

Experts in residence

Our experts in residence, located at the iAccelerate centre, are experienced and successful entrepreneurs deeply rooted in the vibrant startup scene. As a key startup hub and accelerator located south of Sydney, we attract top-tier mentors who are ready to guide and empower resident companies. These experts bring valuable insights and connections, fostering growth and innovation within our entrepreneurial community. They actively contribute to our iAccelerate education program, ensuring that startups have access to cutting-edge knowledge and resources to thrive. 

Our mentors

Frank Marzano

Frank is the Co-Founder and Director of iTree Pty Limited, which develops software solutions for government agencies in Australia and New Zealand. B2B and B2G sales and marketing specialist.

Kylie Flament

Kylie is an internationally-recognised leader in sustainability and social enterprise. She brings a wealth of experience in business growth and operations, purpose and impact, and community leadership. She is the winner of multiple business awards including Outstanding Young Business Leader 2021.

Daniel Saffioti

Daniel is a transformational leader with over 25 years experience supporting, developing and leading digital functions in education, research and corporate institutions. During this time he has demonstrated expertise and commitment to strategy, architecture, innovation, communications, change and all things digital! With a proven track record helping organisations realise their strategic aspirations in the digital world.

Our facilitators

Adam Cole

Adam is a Managing Partner at KPMG Wollongong, where his primary role is in tax, transactions and accounting. Adam provides a broad range of accounting, tax and business advisory services.

Belinda Gibbons

Belinda is an Associate Professor within the Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong. With a unique blend of teaching and learning, governance and research expertise in the field of responsible management education and experiential learning, Belinda is passionate about embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals within education and community.

Rebecca Glover

Rebecca is the co-founder and Executive Director of ExSitu and has over 16 years’ experience in various environments in aged care, ranging from residential aged care to home care. Rebecca has a passion for utilising technology to improve human outcomes.

Tillmann Boehme

Dr Tillmann Böhme is a creative, collaborative and innovative minded person; start-up entrepreneur, Associate Professor, and an expert supply chain analyst. Tillmann has conducted applied/ action research to a vast range of industries globally. Dr Böhme is renowned for applying holistic systems-based approaches to achieve staff synergies that lead to maximum effectiveness and business acceleration.

Nathan Harper

Founder of Comply Ahoy and Finlert, Nathan has over 20 years of experience in systems development, focusing on building and operating large scale software-as-a-service products in publishing and the regulatory and compliance space.

Leanne Isabella

Leanne Isabella has experience across the entire HR function, from creative recruitment campaigns and employee experiences, to building high-performance cultures where people thrive. Leanne draws on her expertise with tech startups and scaleups.

Joanna Kubota

Joanna has over 24 years' experience assisting Australian business to expand and access global markets. With first-hand, comprehensive understanding of the inherent challenges involved, together with the knowledge and skills to lead companies through the difficulties, Joanna's particular strengths are in strategy development and implementation, the fostering of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Takahiro Kubota

Taka has worked with major global companies as well as on various government projects with numerous stakeholders. Since establishing GSS, he has worked with a variety of SMEs, developing and implementing creative strategies to build their business and overcome their challenges, and has provided assistance to Federal, State and local governments by acting as their Small Business Specialist/Lead Consultant.

Nick McNaughton

Nick is a highly experienced CEO who has been a successful entrepreneur, mentor, investor and fund manager. In August 2020 he founded Campus Plus to help Universities with their industry engagement, strategic partnership development, IP identification, protection and commercialisation and researcher development.

Jack Qi

As an accountant and advisor to startups and scaleups, Jack is driven by a passion for helping founders succeed. Through his industry-focused skillset and commercial acumen, Jack has a track record of growing startups into established, impactful tech companies.

Eunice Quintana-Smark

Eunice is a talented professional with a passion for the development of people, customer service management, and marketing management. With extensive leadership experience, Eunice has built a career on providing strategic direction and guiding teams to deliver exceptional results.

Kate Whale

Kate is a commercial lawyer, and has experience in commercial disputes and transactions across a broad range of areas of the law. She has a particular interest in the hospitality and tourism industries.

Gabby Moir

Gabby is an executive coach and group facilitator with 16 years of industry experience designing and delivering award-winning people development programs. As a project and program manager, Gabby has deep expertise in planning, costing and implementing multi-million dollar rollout projects with diverse stakeholders.

Anthony Colfelt

Anthony is a founder of ‘Handmade Web & Design,’ – a boutique branding, design, digital marketing and web development agency based in Berry on the NSW South Coast. Handmade works with a wide range of businesses, helping them to transform their business outcomes through good design. He has 30 years of experience working in startups, media companies, large customer experience consultancies, agencies and e-businesses in the UK, USA and Australia.

Our global mentors

Adam de Sola Pool

Adam de Sola Pool is an angel investor based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With over 20 years experience as an early-stage venture capitalist in central European environmental, clean tech and renewable energy SMEs Adam knows how to provide capital (debt and equity) as well as coach management teams into becoming growth stage companies.

Joe Steensma

Professor Joe Steensma’s expertise lies in business development, environmental science and teaching. He has more than 25 years of experience in transforming organisations by improving operations whilst reducing their carbon footprint.

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