Benjamin J. Bickford

Business IT Strategist, Innovation Catalyst, and Digital Alchemist in Australia, Asia/Pacific and Global

Benjamin J. Bickford

Business IT Strategist, Innovation Catalyst, and Digital Alchemist in Australia, Asia/Pacific and Global

Making Great Things Possible With People and Technology.

Ben thrives on helping his clients realise their vision and unleash their potential to unlock business value, achieve success and make a bigger impact.

For over 25 years, Ben has been applying his own blend of business strategy, digital alchemy harnessing SaaS, platform and bespoke apps and technology solutions to help organisations simplify complexity, scale exponentially and achieve extraordinary.

EARLY VISION OF PURPOSE & PASSION:

Since learning to develop software at age 11, Ben has followed his passion empowering people with technology to do great things together.

He launched his first consulting business at age 18 and draws on his learnings from 100’s of successful projects, working with respected global software companies and even more from a couple of failed startups and many angel investments.

A few pioneering experiences on that journey include contributing to the foundational growth and success of six companies that went on to IPO and become “Unicorns” such as ProMedicus, Netscape, InterWorld, BroadVision, MicroStrategy & Splunk.

BROAD INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Ben brings cross-industry experience across Telco, Financial Services, Health, Utilities, Education, FMCG, Aviation, Transport & Logistics, Public Sector, the NFP sector and ambitious fast growth companies.

Ben continues to explore how we can collaboratively solve some of life's biggest challenges harnessing the best of technology to empower the best in people, believing ...

"Together we find a better way"

IMPACT INVESTOR & ADVISOR:

Ben invests in and strategically advises Boards, Executives and Scaleups across pioneering companies and Foundations, including:

= A real-time global private charter aircraft quoting and booking service,
= A digital wallet enabling platform across Apple, Google and Samsung devices, and
= A world leading volumetric video company at the forefront of immersive experiences via AR and VR.

VIHARA FOUNDATION (Since 2018)

Vihara’s global team design projects and programs to deliver meaningful impact-at-scale for the causes of humanity and protection of planet, such as:

Poverty Alleviation, Climate Risk Mitigation,
Creative Development Financing and
Natural Disaster Planning.

MOBILE MONDAY (Since 2008):

For over a decade, Ben Chaired and hosted Mobile industry innovation events, presenting on digital strategy, apps and opportunities, networking entrepreneurs, enterprises and industry across 150+ cities and 80+ countries.

  • Work
    • BIONIC, Palladin
  • Education
    • BialikCollege
    • Mount Scopus
    • Monash University