Annie Liao
Hi, I'm Annie! I love learning and working with good people. I'm the founder of Build Club, we are democratizing access to AI through building the best place in the world for anyone to learn and build in AI 🌏 Prior to this I did a few cool things including: - chief of staff at a series A startup building AI agents - strategy consultant at BCG in Australia, Singapore and Philippines - learnt to code on the job and fastest accelerated promote (x2) at Westpac - AI focused investor in early-stage Venture Capital (2x board observer roles) - top 1% ATAR
Skills
Social Media Influence
+25K followers across social media
Awards & Recognition
• Forbes 30 Under 30
• AFR Top 100 Future Leader
• Finance Professional Award
• Westpac Reinventure design you own fintech competition
• Global Micro-Finance Case Competition (University finalist)
• BHP Science and Engineering Awards Semi-Finalist
• PWC Business Award Radford College
• CPA Plan Your Own Enterprise ACT (Winner)
• Wool4School National Design Competition (Winner)
• UNSW Business and Economics Competition (ACT Winner Div 1)
• STIR Grant Recipient
University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of Accounting in Business
Chief of Staff
Relevance AI
9 months
GTM, Sales strategy, BizOps and HR
Board Observer and Investor
Haast
5 months
Pre-seed investor (lead) and board observer Haast is on the mission to help organisations find and resolve brand or regulatory compliance issues in their live digital presence.
Board Observer and Investor
Sahha
5 months
Seed investor (lead) and board observer Sahha is on the mission to personalize the delivery of digital healthcare innovations and solutions to customers through unlocking the potential of behavioural health data (API bridging neuroscience and UX)
Investment Associate
Aura Ventures
1 year
Investor, specialized in AI/ML, dev tools, Healthtech, Insurtech. 💎Track record of investments led and closed: - Sahha AI: Healthtech API, $1.85m seed round (board observer) - Haast: Regtech AI platform, $1.2m pre-seed round (board observer) - Harvest B: [NDA] seed II round
Contract Consultant
Archangel Ventures
4 months
Platform and community strategy / build and a few other projects
Associate
Boston Consulting Group
1 year, 3 months
Strategy consulting in Healthcare, Climate & Sustainability, Banking, Energy and E-commerce across topics such as new venture build, personalization / artificial intelligence, due diligence, growth strategy, GTM, decarbonization, and org restructure