Female founders and innovators

Annie Luu

Head of Asia Investible

Annie Luu has a track record of building and developing business and partnerships at speed and has run and supported accelerator programs and is currently focused on building Investible operations across Asia, Europe and U.S.

Investible is an early-stage investment group that provides high potential founders the financial, human and intellectual capital needed to scale. Investibles’ mission is to de-risk angel investment on a global scale.  
Annie started her career as a project engineer at Interflow and moved on to be a team leader, commercial program manager and then to project manager on large infrastructure development projects.  Later Annie formed in her own firm that managed construction sites and major facilities across Australia.  Annie is an entrepreneurial coach and advisor to entrepreneurs.

Michelle Duval

Founder and CEO of Fingerprint for Success

Michelle Duval is a pioneer into new forms of learning and she helped found the field of professional coaching in Australia in 1997 and became a leading voice forging developmental and transformational coaching worldwide.

She has co-authored two international handbooks on coaching, is featured in over 20 books and sought out by media as a leading voice in the field. She has coached thousands of individuals locally and internationally. 

As a researcher, she has led world-first studies into the attitudes and motivations of some of the world's most successful founders and teams of startups and scale-ups. 

Using her experience and research Michelle developed Fingerprint for Success (F4S), a people analytics and coaching platform for startups, scale-ups and enterprise to assessing and develop entrepreneurial and innovative leadership. 

Jeri Childers

Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UTS Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Your program leaders is Jeri Childers PhD who teaches, coaches, and consults with leaders and organisations on innovation, leading change and developing female leaders.  She launched the Deep Tech Accelerator, a program focused on early-stage prototyping and the market validation of technology.

Jeri’s breadth of experience is indispensable for early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators moving from startup to scale up or for leaders looking to step up and stand out.  For this series Jeri is working with the UTS Women in Engineering and IT program, which fosters a network of passionate professionals who are actively involved in advancing and accelerating the next generation of women.