Fiona Boyd | Business Development Director & Co-founder
edsmart

A former ABC broadcaster, Fiona is one of Australia’s earliest and most successful start-up entrepreneurs. In 2000, she co-founded Arts Hub and grew the business to a paid subscriber base of over 10,000. She also co-founded Arts Hub’s sister site, Screen Hub, and various other online businesses, including REmessenger – a social platform for real estate agents, which sold to partners in Silicon Valley – and Folk Like Me – an early social network for communities of interest. As founder and Director of Business Development at EdSmart, Fiona is dedicated to helping educators, parents and students worldwide by enabling schools to automate routine processes, build community engagement, optimise operations and communication, control and secure data, and create a working model for a more sustainable future. Fiona was recently named on the inaugural Business Women in Education ‘Women to Watch' list.