Chapter Director

In 1999 Brendan founded ShopFree.com which expanded to 7 countries and over 1 million members. In 2004, Brendan relocated to San Francisco to further ShopFree’s push into the USA market. As a mentor and consultant Brendan has worked with VinoMofo, Shop A Docket, SportsBet, the Australian Radio Network and rock band INXS. Brendan currently is Director of Community Development for SoftLayer, which was recently acquired by IBM. Brendan is also a mentor at Muru­D, Accelerating Commercialisation, Lakeba, NRMA Jumpstart, Incubate and SlingShot.

Sydney Co-Director

CREATIVE. TECH. ENTREPRENEUR. 

Is the founder of Cleanstack an Australian Botanic Nutrition and Technology Company and the founder of DreamPushers an agency focused on digital storytelling. 

He is the CEO of Startup Melbourne and the Entrepreneur in Residence for Collective Campus, Melbourne's premier enterprise innovation hub.

He is also the Founding Director and General Manager of Startup Grind Australia and New Zealand connecting, inspiring, and educating the local startup ecosystem serving over 9000 entrepreneurs. Ranked as one of the top 50 Australian startup influencers by Startup Daily.

Sydney Co-Director

Technology Evangelist, Expert in Sales and Business Development, Passionate about Innovative Start-Ups.

Sean is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and maker through and through. Sean has founded several businesses as well as being an advisor to several companies. Self-confessed gadget obsessed has single-handedly IoT-enabled his whole household and knows what power it can provide, and what parts are missing, and decided to start a company to make them.

Prior to working in the startup world, Sean started in Bioinformatics and Drug Design and Development, working as a cancer researcher. This brought him into sales and business development for one of the world's top Biotech firms.

When not helping run StartupGrind events Sean can be found running his new IoT internet connected devices company, GetShift, where they are making an internet connected productivity timer, to help you work faster, smarter and most of all, better!