Corporate Overview

Ryan has extensive commercial experience in the application of value innovation to create new commercial opportunities, verticals and enter new markets. He has held numerous strategic alliance/partnership consultancy roles for Telecom related organizations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Ryan founded Kornerstone a “social commerce” technology platform responsible for the MySpace Mobile Recharge Service in partnership with News Limited, EmergingVentures a consultancy firm providing commercial partnerships for new market entry and served as director for a managed service provider operating in 92 countries. He was founding shareholder and director of global strategic partnerships for SkyNetGlobal one of the first companies in the world to commercialize wireless broadband & completed ASX IPO in September 2000.

Ryan has been involved in the global Telecom markets since 1994 representing IMG, the worlds largest Sports, Entertainment & Management Company where he specialized in international Corporate Sponsorship for the Telecommunication & Technology sectors.

Bryson’s no nonsense commercial approach has been honed by 20 years in the entrepreneurial space in senior executive positions and as a Director for the last 10. With a background in social media and payments including First Data and Cashcard combined with a degree in psychology to aid his understanding of communication and motivation while building innovative products. Bryson specialises in corporate strategy, governance, product development and solution design.

Company highlights include Kornerstone, which was responsible for the MySpace (Mobile) Recharge program and the latest, Benojo – where Bryson was also a co-founder, is an emerging social platform that increases collaboration between businesses, employees and causes to assist in creating social impact.

Established Expedite Strategy in 2011 as a boutique consulting firm. Prior to that Phil was a Principal of Crowe Horwath’s (5th Largest Accounting Firm in Australia and 8th Largest Globally) within their Corporate Finance division. Phil joined the firm in 1997 and became a Principal of the firm’s Corporate Finance division in 2007.

Phil’s clients have included private and public companies, across a broad range of industries such as healthcare services, food and beverage distribution, IT and communications, manufacturing, and distribution. Phil has acted as lead advisor on a number of successful business sales and mergers for clients in a variety of industries, and has worked on international transactions with businesses in Asia and the United States.

Phil currently works with a number of software and IT companies on their international expansion.

Ingrid Riehl has been working in the b2b2c and d2c international information industry for more than two decades. She held different senior executive positions at leading Credit Bureaus and Credit Agencies such as D&B, Bisnode AB, SCHUFA Holding AG, Boniversum GmbH (former Experian Joint Venture with Creditreform), illion Pty Ltd and has been Managing Director at several CRIF companies.

Ingrid’s experience is spanning from sales, business development, consulting, product management, data operations & data management. She is specialised in b2b2c identity & data services, data economy and insight driven business development, operating in horizontal and vertical markets.

Owning InAdvisory, a value creation consultancy, Ingrid is supporting local and global PE’s, VC’s, FinTech and RegTech startups in business development, strategy and its implementation.

She is volunteering at local and global associations focused in data, information and insight, financial services, credit management – such as BIIA, Business Information Industry Association – and diversity – such as The Female Factor.