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Patty Akopiantz

Patty has deep expertise across the consumer-facing landscape having spent over 35 years as a top ASX company Board Director and senior manager in companies including Coles Myer, Energy Australia, Ramsay Healthcare, AMP, AXA Asia Pacific, McKinsey, and David Jones.

Patty is a Co-Founder of Assembly Climate Capital (ACC), an impact investment firm which brings together people and capital to accelerate bold companies and ideas for significant climate impact. She is a non-executive director of KPMG Australia, Sea Forest, The Hunger Project and Belvoir Theatre Company. She is a member of Chief Executive Women and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is passionate about supporting female founders.

Justin Punch

Justin Punch is Peeplcoach’s cornerstone investor. Justin is an environmental and impact investor, is a co-Founder of Assembly Climate Capital, is the Chair of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and a director of Tasman Environmental Markets. He was previously a Partner at Archer Capital, has extensive line management experience including with Simplot Australia as well as consulting experince with the Boston Consulting Group. Justin is also the Chair of the Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, which works with Indigenous land management groups on landscape-scale conservation in Arnhem Land.

Sean Hallahan

In his professional career Sean Hallahan has held executive roles as COO at Costa Group, Managing Director at Tata Global Beverages, Sales Director at SC Johnson and Marketing Director at George Weston Foods. He is currently CEO of Costa Group. In all his roles he has understood the importance of an engaged and passionate workforce in ensuring long-term business success. Sean is a start-up investor and a generous mentor and coach to emerging leaders.

John Odlum

John Odlum is one of the founding directors of United Veterinary Management, which eventually grew to become the ASX-listed business Greencross Limited. Post the float in 2007, when the company attained a market cap of $31 million, John sat as an executive director on the board and its subsidiaries, and was directly accountable for the IT, operations, facilities and equipment functions.

Currently John is an active investor, mentor, director and adviser to some ten entities, including charities, start-ups and medium-sized businesses in the profit and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and East Africa.

John Davies

John Davies is a Director of both Peeplcoach and Chorus Executive and has spent the last 20 years as an executive recruitment consultant working with organisations and individuals to build strong teams and careers. Prior to working in recruitment, John spent many years in senior sales and general management roles with Tattersalls, Independent Distillers, Nestle and Monsanto.

Simon Betschel

Simon is a Venture Partner at Possible Ventures, making early-stage investments in frontier tech startups. He is a resilient entrepreneur with Founder / CEO experience at: Peeplcoach (on-demand coaching); JungleHum (mobile commerce); and MIG (mobile gaming / billing) and he ran Australia’s largest loyalty program -FlyBuys. Simon also has an extensive background as a senior tech executive. Well-versed in the dynamics of finding product-market fit in high-growth environments, Simon built product teams that drove $350M+ ARR. Notably, Simon established a JV with Yelp to launch in the Australian market before going on to lead Telstra’s partnerships in San Francisco, negotiating deals with tech giants and frontier tech companies.