Fishburner appoints leading marketing and advertising guru to its board

Fishburners appoints Bilyana Smith to their board

Fishburners creates highly-scalable Australian tech startups, and has seen the birth of over 800 startups in its Sydney, Brisbane and Shanghai spaces over gthe past 5 years. 

Bilyana Smith is an experienced CEO,strategic advisor and Angel Investor, with over 20 years’ experience in executive and non-executive roles in creative industries, media, marketing and communications. Previously CEO of Emerystudio, Executive Director with Clemenger Group Limited, Director of Marketing and Communications at Barangaroo. She is an angel investor with Scale Investors.

“I am a firm believer in the power of creativity and innovation to drive economic and social growth, and am thrilled to join the Fishburners board at the time when the entrepreneurship in Australia is gathering pace.” – Bilyana Smith

“The board consists of two halves, bringing together experienced and relatively inexperienced directors in order to generate a diaspora of Fishburners members with their first board experience. I’m immensely pleased to see Bilyana join our board, and not just help oversee and drive the progress of Fishburners, but also serve as an example for incoming board members to aspire to.” – Murray Hurps, CEO of Fishburners

Fishburners is proudly supported by Google, News Corp, Optus, Flight Centre, NAB, Dropbox, Amazon and BigAir.

Source: Fishburners media release