Caroline Shawyer

Caroline has extensive international public relations and Internet marketing experience. She founded the first social network for the Australian Internet Industry back in the late 1990s; developed and launched Australia’s first investor matching service for Internet start-ups; and was part of the team working on Australia’s largest and most successful technology listing on the ASX, the Melbourne IT float.Caroline has provided strategic communications counsel to a range of national and international businesses on a wide range of issues in the IT&C, entertainment, financial and professional services industries. She has worked in Australia, Silicon Valley, London and Hong Kong and regularly conducts business throughout Asia and Italy.Specialising in corporate communications, Caroline draws upon her vast PR experience for each and every client - and combines it all with a very healthy dose of honesty, responsiveness, openness and a sense of enjoyment that comes from helping her clients deliver on their business objectives.She counts some of Australia's and the World's high growth startups as clients including SurveyMonkey, elance-oDesk, SEEK, Etsy, 99designs, Houzz, Ozforex, CatchOfTheDay, Scoopon, Invoice2Go, Milan Direct and Braintree Payments.Caroline is a PR and Marketing mentor for Angel Cube start-up accelerator program.Specialties: Hi tech PR and communications; online PR, Business to Business communications; M&A communications; start-up through to corporate work experience.