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James Joughin brings over 30 years of general corporate experience, having been a senior partner of Ernst & Young until 2013. He was a partner of the firm for 17 years and headed the Mergers and Acquisitions division in Melbourne.

Julian is a proven leader of ASX-listed companies, with a strong professional service and corporate finance background. He has extensive experience managing enterprise, government, and critical infrastructure clients. During his most recent appointment as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Tesserent, Julian oversaw a period of significant growth achieved via acquisition and organic means.

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In addition to advising over twenty organisations on growth acceleration strategies in Australia, Asia and Europe, Julian was a key driver in growing Litmus in Australia and internationally before PPB Advisory acquired it.

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Julian was also a Director of Cordence Worldwide, a global consulting partnership with 2,800 consultants across 60+ locations. Julian combines a unique blend of business and accounting acumen, high-level growth and consolidation experience, and intimate knowledge of the Australian IT landscape.

Simon’s first job, in an engineering capacity, acted as foundational life lessons in honesty, hard work and being a part of a team, forming the basis of a ‘doing the right thing’ mentality which continues to be the approach Simon takes every day.

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Under the Symantec umbrella, Simon played a key role in MessageLabs becoming the market leader in Australia over 7 years. In this role, he worked with senior IT executives from many of Australia’s largest businesses to secure their networks from cybercrime.  

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In 2014, Simon identified a gap in the market in the way organisations were addressing security management and co-founded InfoTrust. InfoTrust are a specialised cybersecurity practice, that supports their clients to become secure and more productive.

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InfoTrust has evolved to develop deep domain expertise that combines internally developed products, services and third party technologies, in 4 areas:

• Secure Email Ecosystem
• Threat Detection & Response
• Cloud Security
• Security Services (Awareness, Assurance, GRC and CISO Services)

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In 2022, InfoTrust launched MyCISO, a security management platform that supports organisations improve their overall security maturity and manage cyber risk, disrupting the security consulting sector.

Elie co-founded Nexgen in 2009 and has been jointly responsible for the growth and direction of the Company.

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Elie has 25 years’ of experience in the telecommunications industry across the SME, residential, corporate and government customer segments.

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Prior to co-founding Nexgen, Elie held roles at Digitel, One.tel, Macquarie Telecom and Axis Telecom. Elie has broad experience managing a number of telecommunications functions including, provisioning, project management, network solutions, billing, finance, service, sales and marketing.

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Elie has been instrumental in building, developing and maintaining Nexgen’s sales, marketing, HR and operational processes, and in managing strategic partnerships and vendor relationships.

Greg is currently the Chairman of Kogan.com. Formerly Asia Pacific Regional President at NYSE-listed Owens-Illinois, Greg led growth and diversification from its traditional Australian base through joint ventures and acquisitions in China and Southeast Asia. Recently he has focused on intensive business improvement, acting as CEO at the Australian Institute of Architects, CEO at Phoenix Australia and as CFO at World Vision Australia. Greg is experienced in leading businesses in multiple countries, cultures, economic circumstances and market conditions.

Lynn is an experienced Non-executive Director and Chair, with extensive background and expertise in strategy, digital services and product development, customer experience, emerging technologies, innovation and cybersecurity. Lynn’s prior executive and consulting career includes senior roles in ASX and internationally listed companies, and Chief Operating Officer, Chief Information Officer and Deputy Chief Digital Officer positions in large public organisations, with operational accountability for corporate services, people and culture, finance and ICT functions. She has also consulted with clients, including NAB, Telstra, KPMG, Aēsop, Coles and Transfield Services (now Broadspectrum). Among several awards for her successful customer and workplace digital transformations, Lynn was awarded #7 CIO of the Year, recognising Australia’s most innovative CIOs.

Mr Kanji brings a wealth of experience in the managed services sector to Spirit, having been a Director of leading advisory, IT and managed services provider Atturra Ltd and its predecessor organisations. He has over 20 years’ experience as a senior business leader with a proven track record of running scale diversified and complex industrial and technology businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Mr Kanji also has extensive experience with start-ups in technology, property development, manufacturing and other sectors. He is also a practicing lawyer and the Principal of legal firm Kanji & Co.

Dane is an accomplished entrepreneur, CEO and company director, having founded and led multiple businesses over the past 20 years. Dane is currently the CEO of cyber security SaaS business MyCISO, which launched in 2022 and has quickly scaled to be a leading, and award winning, security program management platform.
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Originally from the UK, Dane started his career in recruitment and pharmaceutical industries and moved to Australia in 2008 where he joined MessageLabs (a firm later acquired by Symantec). Dane played a pivotal role in MessageLabs becoming the market leader in Australia. He was recognised both global and regional “top performer” each year between 2009-2014.  Key to this success was Dane’s relentless pursuit for excellence in delivering customer value. Dane approached engagements with a simple mantra “Happy Customers Buy More”.
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In 2014, Dane identified a gap in the market in the way organisations were addressing security management and co-founded InfoTrust as a highly focused and specialised cybersecurity practice, that delivered unparalleled customer experience dubbed “The InfoTrust Way”. This approach resonated highly, resulting in rapidly scale from 0 to over 300 mid-market and enterprise customers in 3 years. Dane’s passion for problem solving led to the development of MyCISO, a platform that enables all businesses – not just the top 1% - to develop and maintain an effective security strategy without specialist knowledge or expensive consulting.
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Dane is married, a father to 3 children and lives between Sydney and a farm in the hunter valley.