Emue

Mehrdad Baghai – Executive Chairman

Mehrdad is Managing Director of Alchemy Growth Partners. He is co-author of the international best-seller The Alchemy of Growth and the recently published sequel The Granularity of Growth. He has spent the last fifteen years leading or advising major growth programs and building new businesses. Prior to founding Alchemy Growth Partners, Mehrdad was an Executive Director at the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, with overarching responsibility for growth and a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company.

Brendan McKeegan, Chief Executive Officer

Brendan has spent the last 11 years at the forefront of commercialising emerging technologies. Brendan’s entrepreneurial ventures have lead him to establish businesses in the USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, UK, Germany, France and New Zealand. He was also a founding member of the executive team one of Australia’s most successful Internet companies, Hitwise, with responsibility for establishing the company’s global footprint. Hitwise was purchased by Experian in April 2007 for US$240M. Brendan joined Emue Technologies when the company was founded in May 2006.

Jason Bender, Chief Technology Officer

Jason, an Industrial Designer, founded Chimo in 1997, a design and technology consultancy and grew the business rapidly. Chimo made the Business Review Weekly Fast 100 and Deloitte Tech Fast 50 two years running before it was acquired by Deloitte in June 2005. Jason's technical experience covers government transaction systems, payment gateways, authentication solutions, media management systems and customer friendly web sites along the way. He co-invented the technology that became the patented "Mutual Authentication" that Emue is based upon.