SaaSpocalypse Now Auckland

Charlie Marsh is a results-driven senior leader with a proven track record in scaling businesses through revenue growth, operational excellence, and customer success. She has led and scaled multiple global sales, operations, and customer teams through funding rounds and acquisitions — including as part of the Senior Leadership Team at Tradify.

Charlie specialises in strategic transformation, optimising sales and customer experience teams to drive efficiency and growth in tandem. She thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments, and has hands-on experience setting up overseas operations.

Charlie believes the key to success is building high-performing teams, and is passionate about enabling others to grow in their roles, with a particular focus on championing women in tech.

Raised between the UK and France, Charlie now lives in Auckland with her young family, spending as much time as possible outdoors, travelling in summer, hiking, and skiing in winter.

David Clearwater is Executive Director of KiwiSaaS, bringing over two decades of leadership in technology, startups and community building to New Zealand’s SaaS ecosystem.

David is an organiser and a growth leader, having had a range of roles spanning digital channel management at Vodafone, facilitating startup community at Startup Weekend Wellington, building out the social enterprise ecosystem at Ākina Foundation, or growing SaaS companies as COO of Milkround Online, Cogo and Storypark.

For David, SaaS is about working with incredible people and constantly evolving technology to build stuff that changes the world.

Jenae designs organisations where commercial performance and employee experience strengthen each other. As Head of People at Ideally, she's helping scale the AI-powered market research platform globally.

Prior to this, Jenae spent nearly a decade partnering with ambitious organisations across a diverse range of sectors through Humankind and her own consultancy, Un/Bound. Working as a consultant and fractional executive, she helped founders, boards and leadership teams navigate the challenges that come with rapid growth, while building for the future of work. Her background in psychology, general management and competitive sport shapes how she creates the conditions that enable high performance and turn strategy into execution.

Curious by nature, Jenae loves bringing people together, exploring new perspectives and asking the questions that challenge conventional thinking. Outside work, you'll usually find her surfing, freediving, hiking or taking photos of marine life somewhere remote.

Serge van Dam is a hands-on Investor / Director of going-global Kiwi SaaS companies, such as: Re-Leased, Cogo and Tapi.

Originally an Organisational Psychologist, Serge is most interested in novel growth strategies, and has deep experience in B2B sales, marketing and distribution. He spent a decade as an acknowledged thought-leader in fintech, having been part of the leadership team at M-Com - the world’s leading mobile banking and payments platform - which was acquired by Fortune 500 company Fiserv in 2011.

Serge is an Operating Partner at New Zealand’s most successful venture capital firm - Movac - and is an advisor to various New Zealand Government agencies. He has previously been named New Zealand’s Angel Investor of the Year, organises / anchors several tech events, and co-hosts New Zealand’s most prominent startup podcast; Startup Theatre.

Serge grew up in Argentina, and lives in Wellington. When not helping grow tech companies, you will find him in the great outdoors, arguing over politics, playing cards or with a novel in hand.