Success Stories From Catherine Robson

Viki Forrest is CEO of ANZA Technology Network, a business accelerator that works with entrepreneurs from small markets to commercialize and is based in San Francisco. In this episode of Success Stories, Viki Forrest chats with Catherine Robson during a visit to Melbourne. Viki, originally from Sydney, has helped Australian and New Zealand companies raise over $43 million dollars in seed and round-A funding. Viki tells Catherine about her non-linear trajectory, the differences in operating in a large market versus a smaller one and the innovations coming out of Australia that have her excited.

Nisha Dua is Partner, BBG Ventures and the founder of #BUILTBYGIRLS, an initiative, which aims to inspire and support women and girls to claim their place in the tech-enabled economy.In this episode of Success Stories, Nisha Dua chats with Catherine Robson during a visit to Melbourne. Nisha is living her dream - she's based in New York. This was a goal of hers after she first visited the city. Nisha is a trained lawyer but moved into investments and hasn't looked back. She tells Catherine about her varied interests - karate and theatre, plus an investment that has her excited. And it could be WING-ing her way to Australia in the future.

Jules is an investor, 3-time entrepreneur and ‘intrapreneur.’ She helped to create the new IBM Blockchain Ventures group, runs the IBM Blockchain Accelerator. She is also co-founder and managing partner of Prose Ventures, the first independent VC fund investing legal and compliance technologies.In this episode of Success Stories, Jules Miller, a self-confessed workaholic, catches up with Catherine Robson during a visit to Melbourne. Jules unpacks her career trajectory and offers advice to women about the reasons they should think about broadening their networks. She shares her well-honed pitching technique - channel Jay-z - it may just work for you as well.

Liz Dawes is the fearless founder and CEO of the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, an organisation she started to honour her son Connor who lost his battle with brain cancer in 2013.In this episode of Success Stories, Liz Dawes opens up to Catherine Robson about how she turned her loss into her greatest mission. Liz has well-practiced thoughts about keeping a positive attitude even when it seems impossible. She has learned the ins and outs of setting up a charity organisation, from the colour scheme to the logo which has a special meaning to Connor and the Dawes family.

Maureen Turner is the CEO of BioGrid Australia. BioGrid provides an online data sharing platform for medical researchers to access and share de-identified genetic and clinical data.In this episode of Success Stories, Maureen chats Catherine Robson about her varied career path and how being a classically trained musician prepared her for her corporate career. She has a philosophy on being on time, the importance of keeping her people happy, the benefits of an open door policy and her excitement for young people to take the world forward.

Ariane Barker is CEO of Scale Investors, a Melbourne-based angel investing company which focuses on female entrepreneurs.In this special episode of Success Stories recorded on International Women's Day, Ariane and Catherine Robson go behind the investment jargon with a sweeping discussion about the challenges female entrepreneurs face when it comes to securing capital.They try to answer the question: why when women have a proven track record of entrepreneurial success do they encounter so many roadblocks to access to funding. Plus, they dive into some advice for investors and start-ups a like.

Geraldine McBride is the CEO and director of MyWave, a powerful AI Enterprise Intelligent Agent.In this episode of Success Stories, Geraldine speaks with Catherine Robson about her career path from a zoology degree to AI entrepreneur, what it's like working with her daughter and funding MyWave. Plus, Geraldine's thoughts on AI as a force for good vs. evil and how she maintains her physical and mental well-being.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time.Books, breaking news and biceps are all passions of Jennifer Byrne. The host of ABC's The Book Club, puts down her tomes to chat with Catherine in this week's podcast.Jennifer started her career in journalism at 16 with a cadetship at The Age and has been running ever since. She shares with Catherine a career misstep, her move to to television and how she gets her enviable arms- watch out Michelle Obama.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Dr Melissa Davis is a computational biologist and Laboratory Head of the Bioinformatics Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Driven by a passion to make the cancer diagnosis a less devastating one, Melissa and her team are at the cutting edge of bioinformatic studies aimed to reduce the traumatic side effects patients experience while being treated for cancer.In this week's Success Story, Melissa shares with Catherine Robson the role sophisticated data analytics and mathematical modelling play in revolutionising cancer treatment and why a difficult financial decision led to the career she loves today.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time.Launa Inman built a successful career after emigrating to Australia from South Africa. Launa led several of Australia's most iconic companies through difficult transitions. She shares with Catherine how losing her father impacted her life, her love of all things retail and the advice she passed along to her two daughters.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Tracey Spicer is calling for women to challenge their ‘expected’ role in society and speak up on entrenched gender discrimination, from taking charge of personal finances to shunning gruelling beauty routines.Tracey is a popular Australian journalist and author of 'femoir' The Good Girl Stripped Bare. She has shaken off internet trolls and is continuing to call out sexism in the Australian workplace. And she is doing her part to lighten the makeup bags of women around Australia.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Enjoy and see you in 2019.Cary Carbonaro is an award winning, internationally known Personal Finance Expert.In this episode of Success Stories, Cary catches up with Catherine Robson about how she got her start, her career as an author and how her late father still influences her career.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Enjoy and see you in 2019.Clara Brenner is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in the future of cities located in San Francisco.In this episode of Success Stories, Clara speaks with Catherine Robson about what investments she's excited about, finding work/life balance in the Bay Area and which books she is recommending at the moment. (HINT: one has the backing of the city of San Francisco).

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Enjoy and see you in 2019."Pack your bags, you are going to Antarctica", that was the response Rachael Robertson received after responding to a newspaper ad. This is where she led a team for one year, six months in complete darkness. Rachael is this week's Success Stories guest.While living with the same group for one year, Rachael learned in a short time what type of leader she was. Rachael is now an author and a popular public speaker. She ended the Antarctic 'bacon wars' that could have gotten out of greasy hand.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Enjoy and see you in 2019.Olivia June is Founder and CEO of VINA - a friendship app for women.In this episode of Success Stories, Olivia chats with Catherine Robson about the genesis of the idea to create VINA, a “Tinder for (girl) friends”. Being based in the Bay Area spurred Olivia's entrepreneurial spirit and it was this motivation that helped her land investments from Greylock, Tinder, and NEA. But it's working to end the feeling loneliness that really drives Olivia.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Enjoy and see you in 2019.In this episode of Success Stories, Barbara Bates, global CEO of award-winning global communications agency Hotwire and co-founder of Eastwick, one of Silicon Valley’s premier communication firms, speaks with Catherine Robson about the value of designing effective employee engagement, the future of PR and being driven by failure.

Over the Australian summer, we'll be replaying some of your favourite episodes. We bet you will learn something you missed the first time. Enjoy and see you in 2019.Boost Juice founder, Janine Allis, speaks with Catherine about her start on celebrity yachts, what you need to be prepared to risk to make your business a success and how working makes her a better mother to her four children.

In this special episode of Success Stories, Catherine Robson talks with angel investor, Neelesh Mehta, as part of Scale's education series.Neelesh is co-founder and managing director of Jaipur Asset Management and a successful angel investor. Neelesh tells Catherine about this start investing in start-ups and why believes in investing in women entrepreneurs. They talk mistakes he's made and how much you should trust your gut when you first meet someone with a 'brilliant' idea.

Vicky Papachristos is an experienced company director, executive and consultant with over 30 years' experience in the corporate world. And she has a solid background in investing in start ups.In this episode of Success Stories, Vicky speaks with Catherine Robson about her successful strategy of angel investing, she outlines what goes into the 'deal' - it's more than you may realise. She also talks about dealbreakers when it comes to investments and the benefits of working with Scale - the breadth of knowledge is just one of the attributes she praises. This is a special episode of Success Stories, it is part of Scale's Education Program. Enjoy!

Martine Letts is Chief Executive Officer at Committee for Melbourne, a strategic leadership think tank, and an apolitical, not-for-profit, member-based organisation.In this episode of Success Stories, Martine speaks with Catherine Robson about her time as Ambassador to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, the importance of education to her family and where she went wrong on choosing mentors. Plus, why Melbourne is still such a beautiful city - thanks Victorians.