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Tristan Terry (2023)

Tristan is a Principal at Aura Ventures, an APAC based, thesis driven venture capital firm with >$150m of funds under management. Tristan is actively involved in the ongoing management of Aura’s existing investment portfolio and plays a key role in the evaluation process of new investments as a member of the firm’s investment committee. He has led the firm's investments into Foodbomb, Bookwell and Ynomia.

Prior to joining Aura Ventures, Tristan worked at DCE Partners, a London-based private equity firm and held senior positions at UBS and the Royal Bank of Scotland. His move into venture capital was driven by a desire to work with early-stage companies and the ambitious founders behind them.


Margaret O’Brien

Co-Founder & CEO @ Young Change Agents

As one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurial-education thinkers, Margaret works closely with education departments and educators to support enterprise education. She launched the first high school incubator program in Australia for youth and the social enterprise-in-a-box initiative and was engaged to codesign the Australian Government-funded Academy for Enterprising Girls following her successful work delivering programs to 1500 girls as part of the Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship program (WISE).

Margaret is a third-year SheEO Activator, was on the Founding Board of SECNA - the Social Enterprise Council of NSW/ACT and was previously Social Enterprise Advisor at Social Traders and Seventh Street Ventures. She has previously held senior commercial roles across the edutech and property sectors in Australia and the UK.

Read more about Margaret here.

Tiffani Seaton (2023)

Indigenous Engagement Lead @ Young Change Agents

Tiff is passionate about creating a better and brighter future through generational change. As a Kamilaroi woman, Tiff is passionate about closing the gap and creating more opportunities for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people.  

With an extensive background working in the non-for-profit sector, Tiff has always felt the need to make the world a better place. She has a wide skill set with experience in events, community development, business development, youth work and more. Her particular interests are in Indigenous education, diversity and equality advocacy and sustainability.

Harriet Dwyer (2023) 

Harriet is Head of Impact at AirTree. Bringing what she knows about scaling systems for change and impact, Harriet's work sees her managing AirTree's ESG reporting requirements, supporting portfolio companies to do the same, and building an impact strategy that enables AirTree to actively contribute to change in industry-wide issues of diversity, environmental impact and founder and team mental health and wellbeing.

Before this, Harriet was part of the early team at Hireup, one of Australia's largest social impact tech startups. Harriet's work spanned strategy, operations, people, legal and government, with a focus on improving the systems, programs and policies that embedded Hireup's purpose as the company grew. In this time, Harriet secured a multi-million dollar partnership with the NSW Government, a million dollar grant from Google.org for Hireup's impact on the disability sector, and alongside the team put the organisation at number one on Deloitte’s 2017 Tech Fast 50 list, naming Hireup as the fastest growing tech company in Australia at the time.

Madeleine Huynh (2023)

Madeleine joined Perennial Better Future as an ESG Analyst and Assistant Equities Analyst in August 2021. She is passionate about pursuing strong, consistent investment returns, while driving improved social and environmental outcomes. 

Prior to joining Perennial, Madeleine undertook a cadetship at UBS Investment Bank during her undergraduate degree, and rotated across the Global Markets and Investment Banking divisions. Madeleine holds a Bachelor of Science (Financial Mathematics & Statistics and English) from the University of Sydney.


Ashok Mysore 

Ashok Mysore has over 30 years of industry experience across Telecommunications, Financial Services, Logistics, Energy, Utilities and Services industries.

Ashok joined Infosys in 2004 to lead the Telecommunications business and since has held numerous roles before taking up the Regional COO role in 2014 responsible for Delivery & Operations. Ashok has broad experiences in strategy, sales, general management and consulting across Australia, NZ, US, India and SEA. Ashok sits on multiple advisory boards and is a regular speaker across industry, academia and partner ecosystems.

Ashok completed Executive Leadership Program from Stanford Graduate School of Management, an MBA in Strategy & Leadership from University of Melbourne, and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering.