Kirstin is the Chief Executive Officer of Birchal, Australia’s leading crowdsourced funding platform which provides quick and low cost access to capital for companies whose passionate supporters are their superpower.

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Kirstin is an experienced start-up and high-growth business executive with a focus on fintech businesses at the intersection of activism and capitalism: former Managing Director at Techstars Tech Central Sydney Accelerator, co-Founder and former CEO at Future Super, former executive at Brighte, founding chairperson at Ocean Impact Organisation and long-time mentor with Blackbird's Giants and Startmate programs. In her spare time Kirstin is on the board of Morphic Ethical Equities (ASX:MEC), a Vinemaker at Grapevine and parent to 11 year old Elizabeth.

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Kirstin is also a reformed lawyer (Freehills) and management consultant (Bain & Co), where she spent 10 years advising some of the largest companies and charities in Australia and Canada. Her expertise includes technology-driven transformation, organisational design, due diligence and productivity improvement in financial services, telecommunications and private equity. She has been a serial intrapreneur within these professional services firms, driving new internal policies on parental leave and flexible working, as well as new charitable partnerships.