About Us

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Kat is a descendant of the Mer and Mua peoples of the Torres Strait Islands with German and Scottish heritage. She is a Business Advisor with an outstanding record of success in unlocking capital for Indigenous businesses across the PM&C $90m Indigenous Entrepreneurs Fund (2018-19). 

Kat has gained significant experience working in Sydney, London & Edinburgh for some of the world’s largest public and private sector companies including  ABN Amro, Societe Generale, Andersons as well as EY,  Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and The Pensions Regulator and in the UK.

Today, Kat is an Indigenous entrepreneur specialising in Indigenous business development.

She has designed and delivered some of the country's most innovative leadership development programs for First Nations and People of Colour including Political Candidate Training for Women of Colour for Politics in Colour and the Emerging Indigenous Executive Leaders Program at UNSW. 

Kat has volunteered for UN Women Australia (2014), served as Board Director for Women for Election (2018-20) and The Indigenous People’s Organisation Australia (2023-24) and Bankstown Women’s Health Centre (2022-current).  She also serves on the Advisory Council for Wiyi Yani U Thangani First Nations Gender Justice Institute and is Indigenous Advisor for Women & Leadership Australia. 

A recent Oxford MBA graduate, Shola is an investment management professional with ten years experience across institutional finance and not-for-profit (NFP) management. Shola boasts an impressive global footprint across top-tier financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley, Ernst & Young, and PIMCO, operating in accounting, asset management, institutional investments, and social finance. 

Shola has also worked as co-founder and treasurer of a community development NFP and has assisted in raising $AUD2.7m in grant/donor capital and special needs goods. Shola's diverse heritage is of Australian South Sea Islander, Vanuatu and Torres Strait Island, Caribbean and African  descent.

Raghu is an experienced CFO and Strategy executive with more than 20 years experience. His career has spanned large companies like Accenture, GE and Westpac and was recently working at an Indigenous Investment Bank (Iba.gov.au). Most recently he is focused on start-ups and scale-ups in the fin-tech and med-tech space, such as X15 and Trimph.  

 With extensive experience in finance roles spanning both large  corporations and emerging startups, Raghu has developed a wealth of  knowledge and expertise in areas such as budgeting/forecasting, financial management, and CFO roles and responsibilities. 

 BComm (Fin) MBA (Technology) (UNSW), GDip Applied Finance (Kaplan), RegPM, SFC (SCRUM)

Brett is from a large NSW Aboriginal family from the Wiradjuri nation (Fernandos).

He has 20+ years’  experience in ICT and specialises in strategic advice,  digital  transformation, and project management. He has a history of success  across federal and state government, NFPs, and corporate marketplaces.

His successes include the delivery of the highly publicised  enterprise resource planning (ERP) and identity management projects to  the TfNSW cluster. He also wrote the ICT strategy and the technology  roadmap program for the NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) to enable  their growth from a land claims focus, to an agile, collaborative,  digitised entity, that has now diversified into land development,  property management, employment, training, and the Yarpa Indigenous  business hub.

Brett has also delivered major cybersecurity transformations to Vodafone to protect the network from malicious intrusions.

In 2016, Brett founded Patonga Projects,  Australia's leading Indigenous ICT Consultancy and delivery partner. 

Brett also has over 15 years experience in the banking sector in accounting, sales and project management at AMP, NAB, CBA, State Street, Citigroup and NSW Treasury.