Perth based Technology Company Velpic, who took out last year’s Talent Unleashed Award for Most Disruptive CIO / CTO is striding ahead with their success in the eLearning space with innovative new technology.
A computer programmer for over 25 years, Russell Francis is an entrepreneur and Internet Pioneer with international experience running successful businesses that build enterprise scale applications, web apps and mobile apps. In 2014 Russell launched Velpic, a SaaS cloud-based training, induction and education platform for businesses that last year listed on the ASX, raising $4 million and expanded the operation internationally.
Speaking with Matt Beeche from Start-up Daily, Russell said when Velpic took out the award last year at the Talent Unleashed event, he said “that it was completely unexpected but extremely exciting.”
Francis says that he happily recommends the Talent Unleashed Awards to anyone suitable, because from a business point of view being part of the awards – and especially winning on the night – will not only help your business story reach the masses, it also provides you with a growing alumni of strong future business relationships to be connected with.
“I was invited to the award ceremony to meet Sir Richard Branson and I thought, ‘wow, that’s really amazing but incredibly daunting at the same time, I don’t even know if I want that,’” says Francis.
“It makes me very uneasy in those sorts of situations I guess, I like to remain behind the scenes a bit, but you’ve got to put yourself out there as a CEO of a public company and we were heading towards becoming a public company at that stage. So I thought, ‘right, grit teeth Russ, off you go, do the best you can,’ and went to the award ceremony, which was a fantastic experience. I got up there, did my presentation to the guys, didn’t win the overall prize, but definitely won the Most Disruptive CIO/CTO, which was the one that I was gunning for, that’s what I felt had the most credence; it was the most validation of the concept that I had taken to market, which was Velpic.”
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