Funder Type: Individual
Funder Location: Australia, New South Wales
Funder Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-hennessy-282728a/
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Funder Overview:
Bob Hennessy is a senior executive who has been associated with technology enabled business change for over 40 years. Bob is a deep technologist having designed and built software over the first 20 years of his career to enable transformative impacts in the Steel and Transport industries. Bob has worked in executive management roles over the last 23 years as a CIO, COO and CEO across 6 industries.
Bob's experience as an executive in tough industrial sectors and volatile business conditions have given him rare combination of rich experiences which are invaluable for companies on the cusp of significant digitally driven change. His combination of client side and sell side roles coupled with six years of entrepreneurial experience (buying, running, raising capital and selling) brings an appreciation of a range of dimensions of business through personal involvement that is not common.
As a co-founder and director of BFound Bob is part of a team seeking to bring big end of town capability to small and medium enterprises to drive next horizon value for that sector and specifically to accelerate the self sufficiency of indigenous businesses in those SME ecosystems.
Outside of work, Bob is married and has 7 children and 11 grandchildren, is an avid soccer player (player, coach and administrator) and hits a reasonable golf ball. Bob also enjoys reading, movies and playing and listening to music.
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