Influence Agent
Sydney Area, Australia
- Current
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- CEO at Seggr
- Chairman at NuMelon
- Founder at Metarand.com
- Past
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- CEO at Piclinq
- Corporate Adviser at Fox Interactive Media
- Chairman at Creative Enclave
- Director, Business Development at NICTA Limited
- Chairman at Tigerspike
- Chief Executive Officer at Australian Distributed Incubator
- Executive Chairman at Tribalweave Capital
- Corporate Counsel at Email Limited
- Education
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- University of Cape Town
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Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Summary
Rand is a multifaceted entrepreneur and seasoned technologist with a unique blend of vision, oversight and operational experience.
He has acted as Strategic Adviser to Fox Interactive Media (MySpace) and Creative Enclave, a social games developer set up by New York Times bestselling novelist, Garth Nix.
He is currently immersed in building Seggr, an Influence Agency.
He regularly undertakes keynote engagements and recently co-chaired the Future of Influence Summit. He is a co-founder of Innovation Bay, a Sydney-based business and angel network.
He was CEO of a social media software company headquartered in Burlingame, California. In this change agent role he built up a cohesive culture around a new product direction in the field of photo management and metadata.
Rand was the Director of Business Development & Commercialisation at NICTA, a prestigious Australian Center of Excellence. NICTA is focused on applied research in such areas as Biomedical & Life Sciences, Environmental Management, Intelligent Transport Systems, Mobile Systems & Services, Safety & Security and Software Infrastructure.
During his tenure at NICTA, Randal created a culture of entrepreneurism and spun out a number of venture-backed companies, for example Open Kernel Labs. Their micokernel is deployed in over 250 million devices;
He was previously CEO of an early stage venture capital firm. Portfolio companies included:
* Genetraks, a personalized medicine and bioinformatics company; and
* 5th Finger, a mobile marketing company that has spearheaded more than 5,000 integrated mobile campaigns.
In the 90's, he set up a global think tank which focused on using pattern recognition to uncover disruptive technologies. Before that, as an intrapreneur within a major publishing conglomerate he:
* built a specialist legal vertical portal; and
* created ComStrata, a software as a service solution for the strata property management industry.
Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Specialties:
design thinking, influence, social business design, CEO, venture capital, mobile, games, social networking, pattern recognition, leadership, evangelist, entrepreneur, deal maker, branding, publisher, law, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, director, chairman, ceo, technology transfer, IP management, capital raising, portfolio management, coaching, corporate development, strategy, incubation, healthcare, human sciences, cognition, brain science.
Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Experience
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CEO
Seggr
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2009 — Present (4 months)
Seggr is an influence agency.
We focus on humanizing brands and enterprise by embracing design thinking and game mechanics.
We navigate innovation, cultural shifts and technological advancement for our clients across geographies and industry verticals. -
Chairman
NuMelon
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
NuMelon is an innovator in the women's fashion industry.
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Founder
Metarand.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Metarand provides commentary and insights into the social media arena.
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CEO
Piclinq
(Photography industry)
July 2008 — January 2009 (7 months)
Social media photography business headquartered in Burlingame, California with operations in Los Angeles, Galway and St Petersburg and multinational customers.
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Corporate Adviser
Fox Interactive Media
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NWS; Internet industry)
March 2008 — August 2008 (6 months)
Advised FIM with respect to various aspects of their portfolio, including acting as an evangelist for the MySpace Developer Platform and spearheaded the Platform's launch in Australia through a series of devJams.
In addition, conducted corporate development activities with respect to various acquisition and investment opportunities -
Chairman
Creative Enclave
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)
Creative Enclave builds social media applications. Our flagship product is Imperial Galaxy, a social media science fiction MMOG. You can check out the public beta on Facebook from 17th December 2007.
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Director, Business Development
NICTA Limited
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 3 months)
Randal was Director, Business Development for NICTA, an Australian ICT research centre of excellence.
He oversaw the commercialisation and technology transfer activities of the company, including its investments and licensing programs. He advised on key technology trends, market analysis and business drivers.
He orchestrated a number of spin out companies from NICTA, including Open Kernel Labs, an embedded systems microkernel developer with a who's who list of multinationals as clients and a pioneer in the open source arena, that has raised multiple rounds of venture capital. -
Chairman
Tigerspike
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 8 months)
Tigerspike is a mobile entertainment company, based in Sydney. The team is pioneering the aggregation, publication and delivery of next generation mobile content.
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Chief Executive Officer
Australian Distributed Incubator
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
November 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 5 months)
ADI was an early stage venture capital company that made investments into high technology companies across Australia. The portfolio included Genetraks, 5th Finger (acquired by NineMSN), Cogstate (ASX- listed) and many others. The initial portfolio was sold in Australia's first secondary portfolio play.
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Executive Chairman
Tribalweave Capital
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 1998 — October 2002 (4 years 10 months)
Randal was the Executive Chairman of corporate advisory and venture firm, Tribalweave Capital, CEO of the global business networking phenomenon, First Tuesday, in Australia and CEO of early stage venture capital and advisory group Australian Distributed Incubator.
He has board experience with numerous high technology companies, including roles as Chairman of Genetraks, a leading Australian bioinformatics company and Chairman of nABACUS, a Hong Kong based nanotechnology company.
In the 90's Randal led a strategic initiative to bring business publishing house, CCH and its parent Wolters Kluwer, into the new media age. He focused on developing alliances and partnerships and conceptualising, financing and managing new ventures, for example, he initiated the establishment of ComStrata, an online strata management and financial system for the strata title industry, which was sold to Insite. -
Corporate Counsel
Email Limited
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
January 1996 — December 1997 (2 years )
He ran his own legal practice in South Africa in the early 90's and then worked in Sydney, Australia as corporate counsel for Email Limited, a multinational diversified manufacturing and distribution company, which had over 100 subsidiaries around the world and more than 10,000 staff. At Email he focused on intellectual property and mergers & acquisitions and was involved in numerous transactions including the acquisition of Atlas Steels for $150 million.
Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Education
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University of Cape Town
BA, LLB , Law , 1988 — 1992
Additional Information
Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Websites:
Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Interests:
Life Media,Social Media, Web 2.0, Immersion, Presence, Entrepreneurship, Virtual Worlds, Mobile, Life Sciences, Mountain Biking, Surfing, Art, Painting, Photography, Video.
Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Groups:
Founder at Innovation Bay: www.innovationbay.com
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Private Equity and Venture Capital Group -
Australian CEO's of San Francisco & Silicon Valley -
Social Business Design
Randal Leeb-du Toit’s Honors:
South African Surf Lifesaving Champion across 4 disciplines.
Social media research materials incorporated into 2008 Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA course on strategy and management.
Recently published articles:
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/mobile-from-the-word-goh/2008/05/05/1209839551673.html
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/facebook-gets-on-with-business/2007/10/09/1191695837750.html
* http://metarand.com/2008/02/05/at-facebook-value-can-an-app-developer-ipo-north-of-2-billion/
* http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/attention-economy-needs-data-portability/2008/03/11/1205125864120.html
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