ABOUT JANEY MARTINO

Janey Martino has built multiple organisations to successful exit across the media, martech, fintech, and digital health sectors. As well as delivering strong outcomes for shareholders, she focuses on building high-performing teams and individuals, knowing that the key to growing successful businesses is growing their people.

Her experience includes founding and exiting Undertow Media (now Bastion Amplify following its sale to the Bastion Group in 2009), and digital platform Shout, which was acquired by ANZ Bank in 2015, where she subsequently held the role of Head of Social Segment. She was also a Director at Melbourne Football Club from 2015 to 2020.

As a passionate supporter and participant in the Australian startup ecosystem, Martino is also an investor and advisor to high-profile startups including Expert360, Kic, Learna, Linktree, Matched, and Own Home. She was an early-stage investor and advisor at Unlockd, eventually leading the business as CEO.

She is also Chair and Co-founder of the globally recognised health tech platform Smiling Mind, which delivers online mental fitness preventative programs to young people. Smiling Mind is Australia’s #1 mental health app, with more than 9 million users of its individual program and an education program utilised in 20 percent of schools across the country.

From 2020 to 2022, she served as Portfolio Advisor and sat on the Investment Committee of Commonwealth Bank’s x15 ventures, supporting the bank’s digital innovation strategy through venture development, investment, and acquisition.

Martino continues to consult with fast-growth tech companies from Seed to Series C stage, including Kic and Linktree. At the start of 2024, she combined her talent for optimising human capital with her passion for helping leaders and teams reach their full potential by launching the coaching business, Kintsugi Way.


IMPACT STORIES FROM CLIENTS

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A mid-year goal check-in with our coach Janey Martino

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How to stop taking things personally - with our coach Janey Martino

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Career + children. Can I have both?

fEATURED INTERVIEWS + PODCASTS
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How to learn to trust yourself -
with our coach Janey Martino

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On raising boys, starting businesses + building bridges back to yourself when life lays roads with no maps

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Mental heath, purpose and risk