Team behind BindiMaps
DR ANNA WRIGHT
Co-Founder, CEO
Anna has more than 25 years in the finance industry, working as a management consultant to firms from both early stage through to IPO and trade sales. She holds a PhD in finance and has lectured and researched in the valuations field. She also has a personal interest in assisting people with vision loss.
TONY BURRETT
Co-Founder, CPO
Tony is a startup product expert! He has spent 5+ years leading BlueChilli’s product management and development team, having built more than 40 new businesses. Tony co-founded startup-focused development and marketing business The New Agency, and is the founder of Carsguide.com.au.
DR ATHANASSIOS BOULIS
Principal Systems Architect
Athanassios (Thanassis) Boulis is a computer engineer with more than 20 years of experience building sensor networks, designing and evaluating communication protocols, and writing software such as simulators. He has expertise in fault-tolerant algorithm design, big data sensor applications, as well as performance analysis through modelling and simulation. His research publications have received thousands of citations and his open source software is widely used
Joash
Developer
Joash has worked at several startups in engineering roles, including GetSwift as Lead Software Architect. He is the Author of leading monadic probabilistic programming framework for C#, and enjoys working at BindiMaps because he believes strongly in the ability of technology to support and enrich the lives of people with disabilities.
Keith Urquhart
Senior Product Engineer
Keith has over 25 years experience as a software engineer specialising in building start-ups. Working across various industries such as entertainment, logistics, delivery, advertising, games and energy. Before BindiMaps Keith was CTO of a global last-mile delivery and logistics company listed on the ASX. Just prior to joining BindiMaps he co-founded TourTracks, an online app for managing touring artists which is used by some of Australia's biggest acts.
John-Ross Barresi
National Locations Manager
After studying Health Science at LaTrobe University, JR took up a role as an Orientation & Mobility Specialist at Vision Australia. After a few years, he made the move to Guide Dogs Victoria where he spent the next 17 years of his career. As well and continuing in the O&M field, JR took on the role of Innovation & Project Coordinator. Is was here that his passion for how technology could help people with low vision navigate independently grew.
Sarah Niss
Senior Account Executive
Sarah brings 18 years of consultative enterprise sales experience to BindiMaps. She has worked in North America, Europe, and across Asia-Pacific to expand edu-tech, fin-tech, and health-tech partnerships that generate demonstrable impact and measurable return on investment. As a certified business and personal coach, she listens and asks thought-provoking questions to help people and companies get unstuck and progress toward the goals they set. If she's not talking about IDEA (inclusivity, disability, equity, and accessibility), she's likely out ocean swimming.
Yasin Ladhani
Senior Account Executive
Yasin is an experienced Salesperson with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry and now in the IT industry. Skilled in Sales, Cold Calling, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Retention, and Sales Management. Strong sales professional graduated from Cherrybrook Technology High School.
Alexander Loucas
Digital Acquisitions Specialist
Alex is a passionate Digital Acquisitions Specialist with a love for problem solving, consumer behaviour and using data to tell a story. He has a proven track record of driving impactful results to multimillion dollar companies through challenging & testing the status quo, optimising sales funnels & creating detailed digital marketing plans.
Kayla O’Dwyer
Account Executive
Kayla is passionate about using purpose-driven technology to solve complex problems and drive social impact. She empowers organisations to create digital experiences for their employees and customers and works with them to achieve their goals. Kayla studied a Master of Aviation Management before navigating to the tech space and is excited to help make airports and transport hubs more inclusive and accessible to everyone globally.
Lucy Serret
Head of UX and Design
Lucy is a passionate problem solver and inclusive design practitioner. Working in digital tech consultancies and agencies for the past 6 years has enabled her to work closely with a vast range of companies and organisations, conducting research studies, delivering design strategy projects, and designing inclusive digital experiences for a wide range of users. Her passion for accessibility, research, design, and technology continue to propel her to ask the big questions and test her assumptions.
Ilya Levchenko
iOS Developer
Ilya is a computer science master's graduate with 20+ years of software development experience. He has worked in both startups and big corporations and is passionate about the software development process. Ilya also has a keen interest in GIS and mapping, along with a love for marathons and mountaineering.
Jun Yi Lee
Android Developer
Jun has worked at organisations ranging from startups to universities to multinational corporations. Before joining BindiMaps, he worked across various industries such as e-commerce, logistics, computer-aided engineering, defense, and academia. Jun likes to develop apps that help people and, at the same time, play with cool tech.