TECHSEEDER - Key Persons
Anita is an economist by background, but has also studied science, engineering and law.
She is passionate about tech and the Internet and about matters such as integrity and transparency in government and business.
Long ago, as a macroeconomist with the Commonwealth Treasury and later as ANZ Bank's senior international economist, she developed monetary and fiscal policies, drafted tax legislation and crunched large volumes of data (econometrics and macroeconomic forecasting). Her analytical interests included monetary policy, booms and busts in asset prices, and long-term shifts in global economies.
After a decade in economics, Anita moved into the fields of investment banking, major projects and civil infrastructure, holding various senior executive positions with the ANZ Bank and later the Victorian government's Department of Infrastructure. Her roles focused on strategic, commercial and contractual matters in relation to very large capital projects, as well as debt, equity and public financing of major infrastructure projects.
She also spent several years in the venture capital sector, focusing principally on the rigorous evaluation of technology investment opportunities on behalf of VC funds and private investors.
In 2006 Lloyd coaxed Anita to join his new start-up, egrants.com - the first serious Software as a Service provider to the Australian Government. As CEO and later part-owner of eGov Pty Ltd, she continued to drive the company's growth and profitability. She also personally did much of the technical work - e.g. designing and coding the complex LAN-based applications that interfaced to the egrants.com internet system, continually redeveloping the database architecture and directly implementing a major technical replatforming of the servers and databases in 2010.
Techseeder is Anita's third start-up. All have been self-funded and profitable.
Anita's tertiary qualifications include an M.A. in economics from Cambridge University in England but she has also studied across a range of fields, including law and engineering at post-graduate level.
Anita is passionate about smart technology and thoroughly enjoys coding. Her first language was Fortran (learned during cold nights in the Cambridge University's stark computer laboratory in the 1980s), and she's been "doing technical stuff" ever since. Right now Lloyd and Anita are having fun immersing themselves in AI and machine learning.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Investor in US
- the Company
Lloyd Bunting is an entrepreneur and investor in internet-based service delivery. He has worked in IT since the 1970s - starting with machine-language coding in the supercomputers of the day before focusing on IT strategies and systems for large organisations. He has worked on internet strategy, design and service delivery since the late 1990s.
Over some 40 years Lloyd has planned, implemented or advised upon some 600 public and private sector projects. The projects have spanned corporate, business and technology strategy, government-wide or enterprise-wide management improvement, organisational top structure reviews business process reengineering and major capital projects. They have covered a diverse range of sectors from technology and property to new products and new ventures, in a global capex portfolio.
He has held executive management roles in the public and private sectors, including as a Chief Manager in the ANZ Bank and a senior executive in central agencies of the Federal government. He has also held senior consulting roles with a number of major global IT and consulting companies. These roles complement his experience as a founder of start-ups and small companies.
In 2005, clearly seeing the potential of Software as a Service (Saas) technologies for highly effective e-government, Lloyd designed a new business model for the delivery of government services into the community, established eGov Pty Ltd and built the end-to-end egrants.com online systems to implement the vision. More than 12,000 projects across Australia have been implemented through these systems since 2006.
Lloyd is an active investor in US-based technology stocks, and maintains a daily investment blog - portfolioticker.com - focused mainly on the global economic and political factors impacting on US tech stocks.
Lloyd also has a number of new web-based projects under development, including a web-based accounting system. These projects remain in private beta at present.
Lloyd holds degrees in accounting (BBus) and investment (MBA). He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and until recently was a Fellow of CPA Australia.