Mentors & Facilitators

Anthony Joy

Anthony has 20yrs experience in Start ups, New Product Development, Brands, Brand Management, Innovation, Disruption, Behavioral Economics, Change, Leadership, and Coaching.

With a background that inlcudes senior marketing roles with companies such as Lion Nathan, Diageo and Metcash, he is passionate about, developing people, business improvement, leadership, culture, strategy and brands,  and specialises in humnan behaviour and how we can use science to help us improve our individual and collective performance.

Anthony is currently Managing Director at Illuminate, and holds GAICD; Business & Marketing qualifications, and is also a qualified AFL coach.

Chris Nurse

Chris has over 25 years of information and communications technology experience across multiple sectors, as a founder, technology specialist, and Top 50 CIO leader within leading companies in the energy, resources and community services and not for profit sectors.  He is the CEO and Founding Director of Namsource.

His passion for technology enabling social impact brings unparalleled technology enablement experience to Impact Seed and its founders.

Sarah McCauley

Sarah was instrumental in holding all the moving parts of Impact Seed together in our founding years as one of our three board directors.  In the early days she also assisted with comms, resource development and governance.  Sarah’s dedication to helping us build capacity has been priceless.  She is a Solicitor at King & Wood Mallesons and completed her Bachelors Degree, Law (Honours) at UWA.  She continues to suppport Impact Seed and its founders in a governance, legal and compliance capacity.

Sarah Mateljan

Sarah is the co-founder and CEO of two tech start-ups – LawCPD and CourseGenius. She helped create the underpinning technology for both companies – an innovative learning platform that makes it easy for organisations to create online training and deliver it seamlessly to any device.

Sarah is passionate about using technology to help solve problems. She relocated to Afghanistan in 2014 and used the CourseGenius learning platform to run a successful eLearning pilot program for an international NGO. She is also actively involved in supporting start ups through Springboard, Founder Institute and now Impact Seed.

Sarah has qualifications in law and psychology. She is currently responsible for strategy, legal, and digital marketing for both companies.