
July 23, 2025
warren
billington
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CEO/Founder/Strategic Growth Advisor/GTM Strategy/Scaling High Growth Tech Ventures /Market expansion/Operational Scale/Executive leadership/
New South Wales
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I’ve spent over 20 years scaling high-growth B2B tech ventures globally, from founder to CEO to regional director. I've led businesses across AI, SaaS, fintech, and analytics, helping them commercialise innovation, expand internationally, and build scalable go-to-market engines. What drives me is working side by side with founders and leadership teams to unlock growth and navigate the realities of scaling. I’ve been in the seat — I understand the pressure and the opportunity. Today, I channel that experience into fractional roles, helping ambitious businesses de-risk expansion, accelerate growth, and build companies they’re proud of.
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[ { "role": "Strategic growth advisor", "company": "Think & Grow ", "endYear": "2024", "endMonth": "12", "location": "Global ", "startYear": "2024", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": false, "description": "Responsibilities \nExecuting Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies and market and geo-expansion plans with global high growth technology companies through workshops, projects, coaching, and longer term consulting engagements. \nSourcing the best people to build high-performing teams and create the processes and systems to scale effectively.\nLeading Global Diagnostic Workshops with AWS Passport Programme with hyper growth technology companies supporting their international market expansion ( AWS ISV segment -$50m-$2bn revenue) \nAchievements \nSupporting AWS Passport programme globally with 100+ workshops delivered in 2024 -$5m+ revenue across US, Europe & APAC \n" }, { "role": "CEO", "company": "Redbelly Network", "endYear": "2023", "endMonth": "12", "location": "sydney", "startYear": "2023", "startMonth": "1", "currentRole": false, "description": "Responsibilities \nReoriented and launched the Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure to a customer-oriented market positioning.\nGTM strategy approach defining RedBelly Network’s unique differentiation as the “world’s only public purpose-built real world asset tokenisation platform” aligning to a multi-trillion-dollar global opportunity.\nCommercialisation of use case proposition with Liquidise through tokenisation of unlisted private equity market issuing tokens for $800m in equities onto the Redbelly Network\nBuilt an ecosystem of partners and community engagement to support commercial launch of the platform.\nManaged team of 50 people across Australia & India\n\nAchievements \nBuilt sales pipeline of $2.5B+ in TVL across multiple customers and partners.\n" }, { "role": "Co-Founder & CEO", "company": "Sypht ", "endYear": "2022", "endMonth": "12", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2018", "startMonth": "4", "currentRole": false, "description": "Sypht is a next generation AI driven cloud Saas platform that drives radical business efficiency for fintech and payments companies globally covering SMB and mid-market customers \n\nReporting to - Sypht board (BCG Digital Ventures & BPAY Group -payments)\nResponsibilities \nJ-V between BCG Digital Ventures and BPAY Group, launching the business from scratch in Australia \nBuilt a high performance team from zero to 30 people with strong focus on vision, purpose and GTM Strategy\nDeveloped the go-to-market plan with aligned product roadmap based on customer requirements, regulatory environment and financial network partners\nLed strategic merger & acquisition by enChoice Inc US in 2022.\nCustomer led GTM strategy delivering next generation AI driven OCR platform for radical business efficiency.\nAchievements \nDelivered 100% YOY ARR growth in 3 years from zero to $5m – MYOB, NDIS & fintech SMB, Mid-market \nCompleted $10m Seed/Series A capital raising across BPAY, BCG Digital Ventures & AU major banks.\n" }, { "role": "SVP/Managing Director APAC ", "company": "Signal", "endYear": "2017", "endMonth": " 7", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2014", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": false, "description": "\nSignal is a global leading Saas provider of customer data onboarding and identity resolution with revenues of US $700m and backed by Series E funding (acquired by Transunion)\n\nResponsibilities \nLaunched Signal in Australia from scratch as the leading SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution enabling marketers to deliver personalised customer experiences across all channels.\nDeveloped and executed an expansion strategy for the Australian market in alignment with company’s overall goals and objectives and localising product roadmap with global teams \nAchievements \nScaled the business from launch to $10m ARR across enterprise clients inc. Westpac, Optus.and mid-market customers\nEstablished Australia’s first addressable media targeting solution through a strategic partnership with leading retailer Coles and their loyalty programme Flybuys\n" }, { "role": "Vice President & Managing Director Australia & New Zealand", "company": "Acxiom", "endYear": "2013", "endMonth": "10", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2010", "startMonth": "5", "currentRole": false, "description": "\nAcxiom, an IPG company, is the global leader in customer intelligence and stands at the forefront of AI-enabled, data-driven marketing with revenues of over US$600M \n\nResponsibilities \nLed Acxiom in Australia, a leading global data & analytics software provider focusing on market and geographic expansion\nLaunched data driven solutions allowing enterprise customers to deliver personalisation at scale and increased customer ROI – Telstra, AGL, Seven West Media, Suncorp, Facebook\nNegotiated strategic Acquisition of XYZ Direct email platform provider to support digital services business\nAchievements \n$40m business with 75 employees with 35% revenue growth and 10% EBITDA margin \n" }, { "role": "Co-Founder & CEO", "company": "5th Finger", "endYear": "2009", "endMonth": "6", "location": "Sydney, New York ", "startYear": "2001", "startMonth": "10", "currentRole": false, "description": "\n5th Finger is a leading global SaaS provider of innovative mobile marketing solutions \n\nResponsibilities \nLaunched and scaled Australia’s leading mobile marketing solutions provider to $15m revenue \nLed successful exit through acquisition by ninemsn in 2005 with 10x value multiple for seed investors. \nLed and negotiated trade sale of 5th International to Merkle, leading US Marketing Services Provider.\n\nAchievements \nRaised $8m VC capital from Starfish Ventures to support the launch of 5th Finger International based in the US. \n" }, { "role": "Managing Director ", "company": "Experian AU/NZ", "endYear": "2000", "endMonth": "12", "location": "Sydney ", "startYear": "1998", "startMonth": "1", "currentRole": false, "description": "Managing Director of AU operations - data, analytics software" } ]
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Sydney
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Executive Leadership
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25 - 30 years
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Accountability,Adaptability,AI & automation,Analytics,Assertiveness,Boards,Budget Planning,Business Operations,C-Suite,Clarity,Collaboration,Decision making,Earning trust,Empathy,Growth,Financial management,Motivating,Problem solving,Sales,Strategy
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