Meet the team.
We are qualified and experienced in providing digital and new venture services across a broad range of industry sectors. With founder level expertise in all aspects of digital strategy including transformation and innovation design - we find, validate, architect and scale new growth ventures to transform business models and generate shareholder returns.
Ryan Flanagan
Managing Director
Ryan finds, validates and leads innovative, emerging opportunities for corporates and scale-ups. Focussing on early-adoption of market leading technologies and opportunities, he has delivered commercial value through entrepreneurial leadership. Leveraging two decades of senior commercial expertise advising and guiding major corporations in new ventures creation, digital transformation, and corporate innovation.
Spending a decade in digital leadership positions with ASX200 and NASDAQ listed corporations he transitioned to digital strategy consulting at IBM and ultimately into global scale-ups where he led start-up teams of 90+ associates in 9 countries across all functional P&L areas including capital management, statutory reporting, human capital, strategy & operations, go to market, product and growth. He is passionate about leading high performing growth ventures across commercial, product and sales to achieve PMF across multi-functional areas and geographies.
Skills:
- Analysing market drivers, opportunities and trends
- Understanding horizon disruptions and identifying tech acceleration opportunities
- Establishing key performance indicators, defining the business model and use case, assessing internal capabilities, investment thesis, profit sensitivity and capacities
- Structuring and leading commercial negotiations with ecosystem partners
- Building-up key business capabilities such as GTM, service and operational teams, setting up OKRs and KPIs for operating model design
- Structuring reporting up to venture boards and running fundraising efforts
Daryl Monnink
Founder & Director
Daryl has 13+ years of commercial experience spanning financial, government, classified, warehousing, lead generation, RFID, and real estate industries. He has worked on projects spanning multi million dollars budgets and has been the technology lead behind a number of new ventures, including a market leading short form mobile video app which was concepted, built and delivered in 4 months, which in its first month of launch was generating 10,000 MAU's.
Daryl has launched innovative products, created revenue models, built high performing products, led technology teams and driven aggressive growth trajectories for large corporates. He has worked at the CTO for three equity funded start-ups architecting technology stacks rapidly to deliver new venture products across models as diverse as market-places and SaaS and verticals as broad as B2B and B2C and B2B2C. He has been the lead across numerous technology strategies & roadmaps, software development and infrastructure design and implementation.
Skills:
- Solution Architecture (design of technical solutions, design of systems, networks, resources and services)
- Software Development (APIs, Services, Mobile, Web, Microservices) C#, .Net Core, nodejs, typescript, javascript, flutter, react native, react, PHP, MySQL,
- Database Management - RDS, MSSQL, MySQL, NoSQL
- Devops (CI/CD) & Server Management
- AWS Infrastructure & Services - EC2, Lamdbda, Route53, MediaConvert, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch, Cloudformation, DynamoDB, IAM, SNS
- End to End SDLC (planning, analysis, design, implementation, maintenance)
- New venture project Management, IT Governance Management of embedded teams, remote workers and contractors