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Leadership

The people behind SafeMinds.

The leadership team runs SafeMinds. The advisory board brings senior experience in commercial strategy, law, marketing and technology.

Leadership team

The team behind SafeMinds.

Dr Angie Montgomery

Managing Director

Dr Angie Montgomery

A data scientist and health psychologist, who has worked at all stages of the workplace mental health spectrum. From chronic pain psychologist supporting workers in the workers’ comp scheme, to workplace consulting, organisational gap analyses and designing and implemeneting strategic transformation projects across national government agencies. She built SafeMinds® to fix the systems that lead to injury, at scale.

Andrew Sharpe

Director, Commercial

Andrew Sharpe

Andrew has spent more than twenty years helping technology founders build companies into enterprise markets. At ComplianceSpace he led commercial and product strategy through the RegTech growth phase, to a nine-figure exit. RegTech is the same territory SafeMinds occupies: software bought by organisations that carry a regulatory obligation. At SafeMinds he is responsible for commercial and product strategy and for how enterprise clients are supported. MBA, University of Chicago; Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investments, SIA.

Daniel Beaty

Principal Architect, Technology

Daniel Beaty

Daniel has spent twenty-five years as a chief technology officer, chief information officer, founder and developer, building complex digital platforms. He founded Clear Dynamics and scaled it into a large enterprise technology company. His delivery record sits largely in regulated environments, including Bank of Queensland, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Latitude Financial, Cargill and Services Australia. He is the architect of the SafeMinds platform, the technology that applies the methodology consistently across large and varied information environments.

Anna Feringa

Director, Psychosocial Practice

Anna Feringa

Anna is a workplace mental health consultant, trainer and international speaker. Over nearly two decades she has worked with organisations on psychosocial risk prevention, leadership and mental health, injury management and return to work. She was named a Global Top 10 Health and Safety Influencer in 2020. She brings her expertise into SafeMinds and elevates all aspects of the products and services we provide to clients. Anna also supports our service delivery partners to ensure the SafeMinds values emanate across the entire SafeMinds community of practice.

Joel Smith

Chief Revenue Officer

Joel Smith

Joel’s career spans software, enterprise technology and high-growth services businesses in Australia and internationally, most recently as group chief executive of a healthcare software business operating across several jurisdictions in Australia and New Zealand. He founded Rev-IQ, a commercial advisory practice for technology companies that are scaling. He works with SafeMinds on the commercial side of the business.

Kelly-Ann Maxwell

Director, Operations

Kelly-Ann Maxwell

Kelly-Ann has spent more than twenty years as a chief executive and chief operating officer across services and technology businesses. At a global enterprise technology company in learning and development, she led the delivery of regulator-required content at scale, including the operating model and change cadence needed to keep that content current as legislation moved across markets. She is responsible for operations at SafeMinds.

Advisory board

The advisory board.

Ian Basser

Chairman of the Advisory Board

Ian Basser

Ian has led human capital and technology businesses as chief executive of Chandler Macleod, Group Managing Director of Harvey Nash Group PLC and Managing Director of Michael Page Group. He was chief executive of Mettle Group, one of Australia’s earliest practitioners of structured culture measurement, whose Culture Gauge let organisations measure culture objectively and act on what it showed. For the past twelve years, as principal of Figaro Partners, he has backed and scaled HR and compliance technology ventures.

Harvey Sanchez

Strategic Advisor (Brand and Marketing)

Harvey Sanchez

Harvey led regional marketing across Asia-Pacific at Microsoft and at eBay, and built and exited a learning technology business of his own. As chief marketing officer at Nearmap, he helped take an Australian aerial imagery company into international markets, where regulatory and compliance work became a significant use of its imagery, through to its acquisition by a United States technology investor.

Craig Hart

Advisory Board Member

Craig Hart

Craig began his career as a lawyer, becoming partner and then managing partner of Rogers & Gaylard. He moved into marketing as chief executive of CPM Asia Pacific, which was sold to Omnicom, where Craig went on to serve as President, Retail Agencies, Asia. Craig later founded Blueprint Group and is now Executive Chairman of Assembled Group, a network of independent creative and marketing agencies. Craig has chaired ASX-listed Kogi Iron Limited and a range of private companies, including Loud & Clear Digital, Hilco Asia Pacific and E&S Trading.

Nick Amore

Advisory Board Member

Nick Amore

Nick is a partner at Cornwalls, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, banking and finance, and restructuring, turnaround and insolvency. His practice spans corporate and commercial law, managed investment schemes and securities, including the application of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Nick has acted as lead partner on business sales and acquisitions across the construction, extractives and transport sectors. Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce (Distinction), admitted to practice in Victoria and the High Court of Australia.

Angus McKay

Advisory Board Member

Angus McKay

Angus has more than thirty years of experience as an executive and board member in Australia and globally, including chief executive and chief financial officer roles across ASX-listed and private companies. Most recently Angus was Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Bapcor Limited. Prior roles include Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of 7-Eleven Australia for eight years and of Skilled Group Limited, Managing Director of Pacific National Rail, and Chief Financial Officer of Asciano Limited and Foster’s Group Limited. Bachelor of Economics (Economics and Accounting) and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Talk to us

Where we go next is the work we do with you.

A 30-minute briefing. We’ll show you what your data could surface and how we’d work together.

30 minutes · No prep · Written brief either way