Our People

John is a veteran of the technology industry, having spent the last 25 years commercialising technologies and building successful companies internationally. John has been a successful tech entrepreneur, the CEO of companies such as Flybuys, Integrated Research and Experian, and now operates as a strategic advisor to growth companies, startups and purpose-driven organisations. Having originally trained as a molecular biologist at the University of Melbourne, John is passionate about building a better future through sustainable investment in science and technology.

Emma Parker is the Managing Director of Isonomic Org, a leading mixed reality practice based in Sydney creating immersive experiences for training and special projects. She has a 20 year background in blue chip transformation and is a highly experienced change agent.  Emma is now working on a project to deliver the longest Augmented Reality experience delivered globally to date, for a government project in NSW, Emma believes in challenging how and when technology can be used to engage and change users. She also has a background in Governance, Risk, Human Resources, Training and Efficiency.

Emma holds a Master in Public Policy, a masters in Coaching and a degree in Psychology. She is also graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and works as an advisor to small commercial and not for profit organisations

Pinky Tang is an experienced corporate finance and capital strategy professional with over a decade of advisory experience across investment banking and private equity in Australia and Asia, advising Boards and executive teams of private and publicly listed companies on complex capital transactions. She is currently the founder of Nuflock, where she partners with founders, searchers and emerging investors on acquisition strategy and capital strategy.

Pinky is a qualified CPA and an admitted Australian lawyer, and holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School. In parallel with her finance career, she maintains an active engagement in the arts. She is currently completing a Master of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne and has undertaken specialist art education at Christie’s in New York.

Daniel Crooks is a Melbourne-based artist working across digital video, photography and installation. His work probes our understanding of time and visual perception through manipulated images that compel us to re-examine our experience of reality. Crooks’ work is in private and public collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Crooks has held numerous solo exhibitions at galleries including Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia (2013), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2013), Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia (2011), and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand (2010); and has participated in exhibitions at Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2014), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2013) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2012). Daniel is the second recipient of the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission, recently opened at ACMI, awarded biennially to an Australian artist to produce a new major moving image artwork.

Kelly Gellatly is a senior executive with over 25 years’ arts leadership, curatorial, and collection development experience in national, state and university-based art museums with a longstanding contribution to the enrichment and education of diverse communities through art. Kelly is the former Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne (2013-20) and was Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria from 2003 to 2013. She has also held curatorial positions at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.

Kelly has curated more than 50 exhibitions of leading Australian and international artists and has an extensive publishing and fundraising history, along with experience in the management and delivery of major museum infrastructure projects. She is the founding director of Agency Untitled.