Matt Smith combines hands-on experience in construction and maintenance services with entrepreneurial vision to solve industry inefficiencies.
Starting his career as a mechanical site engineer on large construction projects, Matt progressed to General Manager at a major maintenance services company. There, he witnessed firsthand the significant waste created by spreadsheet-based management of safety-critical worker training, competencies, and onboarding processes.
This "on the ground" knowledge and deep understanding of operational challenges led him to found MyPass in 2013 - a digital platform designed to reduce the risk and cost of managing workforce competency, safety, and compliance in high-risk industries.
Matt holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Commerce from the University of Auckland.
Claire Virtue is the Chief Operating Officer at MyPass Global. Claire plays a crucial role in managing operational direction to ensure the business processes and platform effectively serve organisations in the highly-regulated industries that MyPass operates in.
Claire has extensive experience in strategic and operational leadership across multiple industries. Her background includes working at an executive level across multiple organisations overseeing operations in multiple countries including Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, and India.
Stuart O’Neill is the Vice President of Sales at MyPass. In this role, Stuart is charged with helping champion the success of the MyPass platform across the existing customer install base and drive the adoption of the platform to new business ensuring customer success and a strong engagement experience across both.
Stuart has spent the past twenty five years building successful ‘go to market’ and delivery teams in APAC, with six years of that time spent evangelising an industry-wide shift to ecommerce, procurement and the cloud in Europe, Asia and Australia. His expertise has been gained through working as a business and sales professional with leading players in the industry including SAP, Coupa, Nortel Networks, Cisco, Fujitsu, SAP Hybris and Digital River.
Stuart holds an MBA specialised in Marketing and International business and bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
William Cowell is the Chief Product & Technology Officer at MyPass Global. He is responsible for driving MyPass’ technology strategy, product innovation and platform development. William plays a crucial role in managing the technical strategy to ensure the platform provides organisations in highly-regulated industries with access to aggregated, real-time data for proactive workforce management, compliance and skills tracking.
William has over a decade of experience leading technology and engineering teams across Australia and the United Kingdom, spanning a diverse range of industries.
William holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from the University of Leeds.
With two decades of experience and over $6 billion in completed transactions at KPMG Deal Advisory, Pat has also served as a strategic SaaS CFO for private equity and venture capital-backed companies, bringing deep financial and capital-markets expertise to high-growth, investor-backed businesses.
Alicia is a technology marketing executive with 20+ years leading go-to-market, brand, and demand strategies for some of the world's most in-demand B2B tech companies, including SAP, LinkedIn, IBM, and Macquarie. Over the past seven years, she has advised and led marketing as CMO within fast-growth SaaS spanning construction, people, financial and legal, helping leadership teams grow new or existing markets and scale revenue with smart, AI-powered GTM strategies.
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