One of the best things about Vibewire, is our close knit community of young people (aged 20 – 35) – who are filmmakers, scientist, writers, risk executives, data strategists, developers – we’re all keen to collab, test + learn and challenge our abilities and mindsets.
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With a business development background in technology, I hope to continue growing the Vibewire community as Executive Director.
Always keen for a chit chat, and any activity that involves food. I love to read and blog about the books I’ve finished.
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As a teen I was pretty focused on becoming a journalist. I had my first fully published print article in a local Sydney Fairfax paper at age 15, and began writing for various online and magazine publications before 21. That led me to a Degree in Communications & Media (Journalism & PR majors) through The University of Notre Dame. During this time, I sat on student boards, created the biggest social society on campus, and launched the first ever fully printed student magazine at the Broadway/Sydney campus. During my studies, I also became focused on business and social media – starting as an intern, and then working full time with social media auditors SR7 (since acquired by KPMG). During my university years, I also worked across larger companies like Merivale and publishers like WeekendNotes.
This led me to create my current business, 5Why, which aimed to be an outlet for students to express various thoughts on things that mattered to them. After finishing up with university I worked for media giants oOh! Media for three years across sales, digital and marketing – heading over to Silicon Valley for 4 months in the middle of that period to work on some startup projects. Since coming back, 5Why and my personal consulting business GDM has become my main working projects. I’ve taken the plunge into giving 5Why a full time commitment, have two angel investors vested in the project and for the first time ever a full time editor. But it’s proving to be very worth it!
Ace Mamun is the Founder/CEO of The Socialites, a multi-national lifestyle and entertainment network with nearly a 100,000 members, and Director/Global Head of Marketing of The Plus Ones in Sydney, an experiential publication showcasing the best experiences in cities across the globe.
The Socialites network also includes:
– A creatives’ network with thousands of members in the arts, music, fashion, film, communications, dance, and design scene.
– An influencer network comprising millions of followers and a myriad of lifestyle blogs and publications.
Leveraging the above, The Socialites provides communications agency services across the entertainment and lifestyle scene.
In addition to the above, Ace, over the past decade, has worked across creative, media, advertising, entertainment, and publishing, having worn the hats of Art Director, Head of Strategy, Editor-in-Chief, Event Organizer, Emcee, and more. Ace has also lead, developed and worked on advertising/marketing campaigns with some of Australia’s biggest names, including Flight Centre, Unilever, ANZ, as well as innumerable festivals nationally.
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The Socialites
The Plus Ones
I left the fast-paced world of mergers and acquisitions for the creative freedom of styling and creative direction – only to dive headlong into the even more frenetic pace of life as a fashion-tech startup founder. I didn’t know what I wanted to become when I enrolled in a double degree of Commerce/Law at USyd. I became Sydney President of the largest national finance careers student society, which set me on the path to investment banking. I started my post-uni life as a grad in Mergers & Acquisitions at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. It was an insane experience, but the excitement and learning plateaued, so I said goodbye to the 100+ hour weeks and ridiculous work culture.
Having always been a creative at heart, I returned to Sydney and pursued a new hobby as a stylist, which I quickly fashioned into a new career. This expanded into creative direction and production, which I conduct under the brand Flank and Finish, working with fashion labels and creative agencies.
I founded Lustr out of frustration at witnessing the struggles independent designers face when trying to grow their businesses. It is a platform that matches fashion-conscious shoppers to designers suited to their style, while helping designers better understand their target shoppers to help them break into markets normally swamped by the big brands. We’re like a Spotify for fashion. We were selected as the only Australian start-up to go through AngelHack’s global pre-accelerator program. We spent the end of last year in Silicon Valley and are now powering away on our beta, to launch this year. Lustr is currently in beta.
Flanked and Finisht
Hi my name is Vincent, founder and CEO of KeyHub. I have been involved in entrepreneurship for 6 years. My journey began in high school when I set up a rock n’ roll theme live music bar with my friends back in 2010 in China. I’m proud it is still up and running and has become a landmark attraction of my city. I studied accounting/commerce and my mother tongue is Mandarin, but I was never limited by my degree nor background. I ran a sharehouse/vacation rental business, an initiative to bridge Australian business and Chinese individual investors, and I am a founding member of an IoT community backed by industry leaders. ‘I’ve failed a lot and I learnt a lot’, that’s a good summary of my experience in the startup world.
KeyHub
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