Rebekah is a serial entrepreneur who has played a lead role in the disruption of two industries. Her company ‘Hey You’ is Australia’s largest mobile ordering and payments platform for cafes. Hey You enables customers to discover and build relationships with storeowners, order and pay via their mobile phones and gain loyalty. The company processes more than 50K transactions per week with 4% weekly growth and recently closed a $5M investment round led by Westpac.
Rebekah’s first company, Scorpio Music, developed the careers of some of Australia's biggest stars: Evermore, Alex Lloyd, George, Matt Corby and Lisa Mitchell. Rebekah collaborated with Warner Music to pioneer new business models that revolutionised the relationship between record company and artist. In 2010, Rebekah launched a technology platform that enabled music fans to earn income by promoting concerts online. The business later sold to Future Music.
Rebekah is an expert in developing strategies to disrupt and improve the way we do things and then to create the right product and brand to fulfil on the opportunity. She understands how grass roots communities work and how to build momentum so that a product takes off. Rebekah has won the support of high profile investors in Silicon Valley, raising $10 million in venture capital.
Rebekah is passionate about community building and entrepreneurship. She was instrumental in the creation of large-scale fundraising events such as the Levi’s Life Festival to raise awareness about youth suicide and Make Poverty History in 2006 and serves on the Advisory Board of Kidpreneur. She writes a weekly column on entrepreneurship for the New York Times and regularly contributes to Forbes, Fast Company and BRW.
In Bali, APEC named Rebekah 'Young Women Innovator'. rebekahcampbell.com named #3 best Australian business blog by Smart Company. She is a finalist in the AFR Women of Influence Awards for Innovation.
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Co-Founder and Co-CEO @ Hey You is Australia’s largest technology application for cafes and quick service restaurants. Hey You is transforming the way we discover and interact with storeowners and order and pay via our mobile phones.
We're always on the look out for awesome engineers, designers, sales people and account managers. If you are super smart, ambitious and keen to join a fast growing startup then please message me.
We are currently expanding our BDM team in Brisbane and Perth From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) SydneyColumnist @ I write a weekly column on entrepreneurship and my own journey. This is published at: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/author/rebekah-campbell/ From January 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Greater New York City AreaFounder & CEO @ Posse.com is a social search engine that helps people to find the favourite places of their social network. Users can create an ultimate 'street' filed with their favourite restaurants, bars, hotels, spas & shops.
Posse launched in late 2012 and lists more than 60,000 stores. Posse is backed by high profile Angel investors including industry leaders from Google, Facebook, Twitter, E-Bay, MTV, Wotif & NineMSN as well as EMI Music and Superannuation Fund MLC.
In September 2014, Rebekah led a merger of Posse, Beat the Q and E-Coffee Card to form a single application for mobile shopping, 'Hey You'. From 2010 to September 2014 (4 years) Owner and Founder @ I founded Scorpio Music in 2002 and signed youngsters Evermore as my first client. Scorpio Music is now one of Australia's largest and most successful management companies and represents artists such as Evermore, Operator Please, Lisa Mitchell, Rhys, Matt Corby, Amy Meredith amongst others. Scorpio Music has 8 employees in our Sydney office and partners with Little Victories Management in London and McGathy Management in New York. From May 2002 to December 2010 (8 years 8 months) Artist Manager, George @ From 2000 to 2002 (2 years) Program Director, 9inety6ixdot1 @ From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Radio Announcer @ From 1997 to 1998 (1 year)
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science & Maori Language @ Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand From 1997 to 1999 Rebekah Campbell is skilled in: Social Networking, Music, Blogging, Start-ups, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Entrepreneurship, Social Media Marketing, Personal Branding, Entertainment, Leadership, Content Development, Online Advertising, Corporate Finance, Public Speaking, Politics, Social Media, Fundraising, New Business Development, Facebook, Strategy, Event Management, Talent Booking, Business Strategy, Venture Capital, Management, Mobile Marketing, Online Marketing, Radio, E-commerce, Email Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, SEO, Music Industry, Digital Strategy, Marketing
Websites:
http://www.posse.com,
http://www.rebekahcampbell.com,
http://www.globalpovertyproject.com