Alina Vandenberghe

Co-founder & co-Ceo @Chili Piper 🔥 🌶 Here I talk about lessons I learned to jumpstart my career from an intern to SVP. And to grow a company from 0 to almost 1 Bn

Started my own company before high school to pay for my own education. Sold lipstick and my tech skills. Decided to do a master in computer science because make-up was a low margin business

Went on to create first mobile products with millions of users for Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Pearson. Some of them went to be keynoted on stage by Steve Jobs 

The past ten years have got me back to entrepreneurship and it fits me like a glove. I founded Chili Piper - the demand conversion platform that doubles inbound conversion rates for cool companies like Spotify, Airbnb, Snapchat, Shopify and thousands others. Recently gone through a financial transaction that got us close to a billion dollar valuation 

On LinkedIn I write about lessons I learned as a woman & mom entrepreneur and hope to help others find their own giants within to prevail in their lives at work  

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Chili Piper is the most advanced routing and scheduling software for B2B revenue teams. 
We solve interesting problems, live and breathe our core value of “help,” and have a ton of fun doing it while fully distributed around the world — powered by espresso and hot sauce. 


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Head of Engineering

University of Sydney

I assist the teaching of the Inventing the Future (INFC7000) course at The University of Sydney. This post-graduate course brings together designers, business school and PhD students to apply their creativity and insights to challenging real-world problems. The goal is the development of a real prototype product and accompanying business model. Some successful companies have emerged from this course including ReGrow and BioScout.

Assistant Lecturer

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Consultant

Vector 5

Canon Australia

Role: Figure out the future and help make it happen.

Currently responsible for research and development of a new product for the B2B market, primarily focusing at agriculture. Researching the user experience using ethnography and developing proof of concept and first-implementation of a product for field trials. Developing advanced AI imaging processing techniques for automated data acquisition for productivity optimisation. Developing business models, and sales and support structures, for the roll-out of a global solution.

This role is a continuation of my work in CiSRA which sadly closed in 2019.

Principal Research Engineer

CISRA

CiSRA was Canon's R&D centre in Australia but closed in 2019. I worked on a number of different projects ranging from digital marketing through to CNN-based image processing. Key accomplishments included:
* Developing a image collection 'understanding' system for selecting the best photos of a user for sharing and printing
* Optimising digital messaging for Canon Australia through date-driven market segmentation.
* Developing new product propositions for Canon in B2B markets including mining, agriculture and economic infrastructure.
* Developing a new product in agriculture for assisting farmings in optimal decision making.

Northside Montessori Society

I've been on my children's school board helping guide this parent run school. Montessori education is the best, and I'm so happy to be involved. (I left the board when we moved to Italy for 6 months).

Director

Thomson Reuters

Drove innovation in the Media group, and by 'infection' the company as a whole. Worked in areas from news collection and editorial operations through to user experience of news. Interested in new tools, and techniques and technologies that will transform news and information gathering and distribution.

Chief Scientist, Reuters Media, Reuters Labs

I lead a small team charged with taking ideas and making them happen in the Thomson Reuters (markets). I lead our Reuters Labs (http://labs.reuters.com) experimentation which enables us to test ideas with the public. I also act as the technology adviser to the business and help with vendor selection, strategic direction and product planning.

I'm a trouble maker. I'm a stupid-zombie-killer. I don't like the processes that stop companies from being good. I try to let everyone be free to succeed, or to fail gracefully (and predictably). Let a 1000s flowers bloom, but let the pruner be unmerciful.

Chief Scientist, Thomson Reuters Markets

Leading technology decision making and strategy for the consumer and agency media business of Reuters. Reporting jointly into the CTO and the Head of Media. Involvement in architecture, business development, vendor relations, partnerships and marketing.

Head of Media Technology

In this role I help steer the company around the rocks and across the oceans of technology products and solutions. I help the company business leaders understand what can, and can not be done with technology, and help design solutions to best deliver service to our customers. I don't like summarising my role.

VP  Technology Strategy

Stanford University

I was a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University. This fellowship gives 12 world-class technologist the chance to apply their skills to helping in the developing world. I implemented some extra functionality for the website Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org).

Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University

Reuters

I was in charge of technology in a division of Reuters called Reuterspace. This division was charged with extending Reuters business outside of the core financial markets and wholesale media position into corporate and consumer marketplaces.

Chief Technology Strategist - Reuterspace

Based in London, United Kingdom, I lead all aspects of XML development and adoption in Reuters, and worked with a number of international standards organisations, including FpML, NewsML and XBRL.

Leader of XML Architecture and Design

Based in Zurich, Switzerland - I worked with the local sales and marketing teams to support and promote our technology leadership to our customers. I worked directly on our customer sites solving their problems, and also worked with the sales teams to cement deals.

Technology  Manager in Sales and Marketing

Based in London, United Kingdom, I worked on a number of technology solutions to Reuters information delivery issues and championed the use of new technologies in the company. I lead the introduction of Web Technology, Java and eventually XML.

Research Assistant - Research and Standards Group

A CTO and futurist who demystifies the impact of emerging technologies and pursues their opportunity to transform product offerings and create new markets. I love hairy problems!

* Architecting for growth: Development of a new product is more than just engineering. Planning the journey from proof-of-concept to a globally scalable and supportable product required insight as to the pinch point and challenges in both technology infrastructure and human resources. Nic has experience in developing leading edge technologies at scale while reducing inefficiencies in processes and operations to ensure cost-reduction and continuous improvement.

* Agile design thinking: Nic takes an empathetic approach to the balance between technology capability and user-experience by putting the user central to the design and development process by applying agile practises to ensure a roadmap of features within development budget constraints.

* Product platform engineering: Deep understanding of both technical and commercial aspects of products and rigorous analytical approach to strategy, platform design and development, market size and revenue projection. Experience with Azure and AWS and the technologies underpinning these offerings.

* People leadership and mentoring: Experienced people leader able to build and guide teams towards targets and business goals while ensuring their skills and excellence are best leveraged. 

* Communication, networking and negotiation: Strong ability to communicate clearly in both written and verbal settings and extensive presentation experience. Comfortable in both sides of negotiations from vendor selection and contracting through to customer acquisition, onboarding and closure.

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