Craig Lambert

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Biography

Mr. Craig Lambert is a Co-Founder of Slingshot Accelerator. He is the Founder and serves as Program Director at Lion Unleashed. He is also a Co-Founder at CoVentured. He also serves as Managing Partner at XT Ventures. He also serves as an Angel Investor at Chinese Whispers Music. He is an Advisor at Fewzion. He is an experienced high-tech investor. As National Sales Director of Yahoo Australia, he helped build Yahoo Australia to become a $50 million business. His background includes sports management and owning his advertising agency. He has great contacts, gets brand, and is the best pitch doctor around. He has extensive interaction with c-suite executive management, operations, and innovation teams to define and execute strategies to support growth and enhance profitability. He has a strong local and international business network across a variety of industry sectors. He is a highly experienced startup investor with extensive operational experience with global digital companies. Having founded multiple companies, he achieved his first exit by selling his advertising agency, Magenta to NASDAQ-listed TMP Worldwide when he was just 23. He was most recently Founder and CEO of Slingshot, one of Australia's most successful and trusted corporate innovation partners. He has made over 100 investments through his private investment vehicle, Vinemoon Pty Ltd, and is a member of the investment committee for the Slingshot Venture Fund (ILP0000112), an ESVCLP established in 2015 and managed by Artesian Capital management. With strong business acumen skills, He has previously held senior roles in global web giants Yahoo! and Monster.com. His qualifications include an MBA from Bond University. He was appointed a Conjoint Professor of Practice of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Newcastle in 2018 and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.