SUCCII is lucky to have such a supportive entreprenuer and investment community supporting this event.  Here are the entreprenuers and technology investors who have agreed to attend the final critique panel.  They will give the teams feedback on their business ideas and award the Business Establishment Prize Pack:

David O'Rourke, Managing Director, Projects Assured,  David is also a on the Board of Directors of Lighthouse Business Innovation Centre. 

Alex Mair, CEO Lucy Media  http://www.lucymedia.com.au/

Nick McNaughton, CEO, Blue Cove Ventures, http://www.bluecoveventures.net/

Murray Rankin, Mentor, Advisor, Professional Director

Murray founded The Distillery Software in 1997 and as CEO grew it to 130 staff globally with operations in Australia, US, UK, NZ, Africa and Asia. He has won numerous national business awards including the Telstra Small Business of The Year, AIIA iAward - Most Innovative Product, 17th in Deloitte's Tech-Fast50 and Emerging Exporter of the Year. He holds post-graduate qualifications and is an occasional lecturer in business strategy at ANU, Macquarie University & Melbourne Business School. Murray is a director and Chair of numerous boards of innovative Australian companies utilising his experience in capital raising, rapid growth and exit strategies and is a sought after speaker on entrepreneurial challenges. He sits on a number of government boards as a technology advisor and was previously awarded an Australia Day Medal for achievements in the national security and intelligence sector.

David Elliot, CEO Agile Digital Engineering http://www.agiledigital.com.au/

David Elliot is an engineer with a strong instinct for business. After graduating with degrees in Engineering and Computer Science he left his native Australia to travel broadly in the late 1990s. He worked on several "new sports media" projects in England and New Zealand which included work on the official Rugby World Cup and Louis Vuitton Cup live event web portals. These portals represented a revolution in global audience engagement at the time.

David then joined a dot-com startup in Canada which focussed on commercialising tooling around the emerging data interchange standards of the time. Unfortunately the
commercialisation process ran longer than the venture's supply of capital. This setback inspired David to return to Australia to found a technology firm that would specialise in delivering complex web-scale systems within the time and capital constraints necessary for the post
dot-com Web.

This led to the 2004 founding of Agile Digital Engineering which has evolved into a deep engagement IT consultancy that works with (and invests in) technology dependent ventures to engineer their concepts into production systems. A key platform since developed by Agile Digital is the allhomes.com.au property portal.

Keep watching this blog space for more information and updated profiles on our guest panel.