Geoff McQueen

I'm an Aussie entrepreneur, who's now started 3x companies since dropping out of uni, moving out of home and quitting my job in the space of 2 weeks at about the same time as the Nasdaq tanked in 2000.

Against the odds on almost every level, two of my ventures have been quite successful - they're profitable, have happy clients, staff and real offices, and most importantly, I've learned a heck of a lot from them.

I live in Wollongong, NSW, a city of about a quarter million about an hour south of Australia's largest city, Sydney. I also spend a fair bit of time in San Francisco.

I'm active in the web technology community, mostly through my involvement with SiliconBeachAustralia.org and closer to home in my role as a foundation board member of ICT Illawarra.

Outside the land of tech, I also am a foundation board member with the Wollongong Hawks, a basketball team in the National Basketball League, the elite men's league in Australia. I'm also involved in my community as a board member of Regional Development Australia, Illawarra, the peak economic development and advisory body in the Illawarra region.

For more info on my "day jobs", check out my first startup in 2000, Internetrix, a boutique web development and consulting business (which happens to be one of Google's handful of technology partners globally), and my newest initiative, Hiive Systems, a web-based software development company providing client and task management solutions for the services sector (read finance, government, education, professional services, creative industries).

When I'm not working, I love to play with my dog, Charlie. I also have a passion for aviation, have recently completed my MBA and am now an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong.