FlexCareers : Our Team

Joel McInnes

Co-Founder

Joel is an experienced entrepreneur and business leader with 15 years of experience in investment banking and financial services. Most recently he was the Head of Equity Derivatives Trading at Citigroup for Australia and New Zealand. He was previously the Founder and CEO of IIT Capital, a start-up proprietary trading firm. Joel is an advocate for flexible work because it lowers the barriers to enter the labour market - by removing the impediments that would otherwise exclude large parts of our community from accessing these opportunities. Joel believes meaningful work is a fundamental human right - it makes us feel as if we belong in our community and that we contribute to it. Working flexibly enables Joel to maintain a better connection with his kids. They're still at an age when they like Dad hanging around (and we all know this phase won’t last long!) Joel has signed up for his first ultra-marathon at the start of 2019. With a passion for endurance sports, Joel loves a good challenge.

Marko Njavro

Co-Founder

Marko brings 12 years of experience in Investment Banking with Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in Sydney. Most recently he oversaw Morgan Stanley’s Equity Trading Business for Australia. Marko holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Newcastle and a Master of Business Administration degree from Duke University. During his MBA studies he developed a keen interest in entrepreneurial projects with a social dimension. Marko embraces flexible work arrangements by working 3 days in the office per week to stay close to the team and brainstorm new ideas. The two days working from home save travel time, allowing Marko to focus on various admin and operational tasks.

Paula Billington

Chief Operating Officer

Paula has 18+ years of experience bringing together technology and a delightful customer experience in both start-ups and large public companies. She spent 8 years in Silicon Valley and is a seasoned SaaS Customer Success & Operations executive specialising in rapid growth environments. Paula is a proven change agent and experienced leader with a solid background in designing, scaling and deploying operational infrastructure and award-winning customer experiences, as well as leading highly successful customer facing & operations teams. Paula is passionate about changing the current landscape of workplace expectations to support equality and flexibility. You will find Paula spending time with her kids, snowboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, or at the beach…pretty much anywhere there’s board or water activities!

Brett Pozniak

Chief Technology Officer

Brett has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry in Australia, where his focus has been on Project Management, Product Development and IT Operations. In 1999, Brett was a founding member of an organisation that developed the first Cloud provider of the hosted desktop in Australia to the SME market place. He has recently focused on new Product Research and Development which enable him to provide best of breed technology advice to start ups and enterprise businesses. Brett has had a lifelong love affair with snow skiing, the Sydney Swans and long-distance swimming. Brett recently conquered the Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra – and surprisingly loved every minute of it! Brett embraces working flexibly to allow him to better manage a team that works in different time zones and to also be the best father and husband.

Elspeth Renshaw

Head of Asia

Elspeth is a highly accomplished human resources consultant and executive coach with over 20 years’ experience in human capital consulting, largely based in Asia. She has in-depth expertise in areas such as diversity and inclusiveness initiatives, leadership effectiveness, organisational culture and high potential talent management. She was part of the global team on the Black Rock acquisition of BGI (Barclays Global Investors) and prior to that was the International Human Resources Director for Citadel Investment Group. She also held the role of Asia Pacific Head of Human Resources for Lehman Brothers Asia, based in Tokyo. Throughout her career, Elspeth has been recognised as a builder of outstanding teams and as a champion of young talent – especially young women. She is currently a member of the Advisory Council to The Women’s Foundation and is an active participant on international women’s issues.

Georgiana Williams

Senior Client Manager

Georgiana is an experienced technology relationship manager with over 20 years of partnering with enterprise customers in recruitment, IT services, telecommunications, fintech, sales and media software. Her passion for people - who they are and what makes them tick, motivates her to help clients identify the right solutions solving those problems that keeps them awake at night. She is a strong believer that success is achieved when you focus on true transparency and partnership – the world is very small! During her time working closely with Australia’s largest global HR teams at LinkedIn, Georgiana found a consistent challenge of hiring talented people who were trying to balance work and life. Having twin 3 year old boys and an 8 year old girl means that working with companies, changing the way careers work is very close to her heart.

Rachel MacDonald

Senior Customer Success Manager

Rachel started her recruitment career at the turn of the millennium, in the agency world back in New Zealand. Since then she has worked across all spectrums of the industry from in-house talent teams to job-board and online social recruitment both in Australia and London. With two young girls and the recent third addition to her tribe, Rachel is determined to show them that you can be an active mother and still build on your career, so when FlexCareers came into her life, she was excited to not only be a strong role-model for her children, but to help shape a strong diverse workforce for Australia's future.

Daniel Connolly

Marketing Manager

Daniel is an HR professional and brings broad experience across the employee lifecycle: from attraction, candidate experience & on-boarding, to performance, development & engagement. Passionate about brands, story-telling and enabling others in their careers, Daniel has spent 14 years in large organisations delivering talent attraction strategies, organisation capability programs, and other employee experience initiatives. He was the Talent Brand Manager for Lion Pty Ltd, successfully leading the strategy to grow brand awareness, shift talent perception and drive diverse talent engagement across Australia, New Zealand & beyond. Previously he led the capability design of an organisation-wide marketing framework and an intercultural engagement project across four countries. Daniel thrives on curious thinking, diverse points of view and understanding how culture (both organisational and national) impacts everything. He’s a passionate Japanophile and enjoys yoga, running, music and the arts.

Nicola Handley

Product Manager

Nicola is a talented product manager with extensive experience gained from senior roles at Microsoft, Dimension Data and Symantec. Originally from the UK, Nicola’s 20-year career has taken her all over the world including the US and here to Australia. Now based in Sydney, she is focused on enhancing FlexCareers’ existing technology offerings and bringing new market-leading products to life. She thrives on using data to continuously monitor, validate and improve products to maximise the customer experience. When she’s not product managing, Nicola is an avid sailor and can often be found racing yachts around Sydney Harbour. She is also a fully qualified sailing instructor with Manly Sailing School.

Amanda Steiger

Digital Marketing Senior Consultant

With 6 years’ experience in the professional services industry, combined with a background in Digital Marketing and Talent Acquisition she loves bringing brands to life through digital storytelling. She is passionate about creating digital marketing campaigns that bring together best practice, insights and innovative ideas in order to meet and exceed our client and business needs. Amanda is happiest when she is in or near the water, at Pilates or playing with her cheeky toddler.

Alice Antonov

Marketing Associate

Since graduating in 2015, Alice has worked both agency and client side with experience in a range of industries including: science, sports, and finance. With a background in digital marketing she has worked extensively with content, social media, events, search engine marketing, graphic design, blogging, copywriting, email, trade shows, technical writing, and market research. Alice is our go-to marketing rock star always willing to give anything a go. Alice loves a good book, knitting, star gazing, travelling and being at the beach.

Aisling Wallace

Digital Strategy

A data geek at heart, Aisling draws on her 10+ years of experience in digital marketing and analytics to help identify, translate and leverage digital opportunities at FlexCareers. She relies on data to facilitate constant experimentation and early adoption with a key focus on improving the candidate and employer experience. Since completing her MBA, Aisling has engineered a flexible lifestyle for her family, working remotely to grow her multiple businesses and two children. (Jury is still out on which task is more challenging!)

Hedgie Gundry

Communications Manager

Hedgie has over 20 years’ diverse public relations, corporate communications and content strategy experience gained from agency and in-house roles in London and Sydney. She has worked with a wide variety of brands large and small including numerous corporates, entrepreneurs and not-for-profits. Hedgie now specialises in communications strategy and content creation in her expert areas of recruitment, leadership and careers. A busy mum of two cheeky small humans, Hedgie understands only too well the need for a flexible working world to allow people to fulfil their true potential.

Caroline Zielinski

Media relations

Caroline is a freelance journalist and writer who has worked in various roles across most of Australia’s media companies, both print and digital-based. Her experiences as a journalist include general reporting roles with The Age and the Australian Associated Press (AAP), as well as contributing to The New Daily, one of Australia’s leading news sites. Caroline has also worked as a producer, subeditor and journalist for News Corp’s only fully integrated digital team, the Network. Her foray into media consulting and public relations includes Media + Capital Partners and Monash University.