Chris Ridd

Australian Director

📍 Greater Melbourne Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2016𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Advisor & Investor
Aug 2016
LivePreso has been transforming business outcomes and workflows since 2014 for blue-chip companies around the world, including Asahi Beverages, Booking.com, Flight Centre Travel Group, MYOB and REA Group. Entirely headquartered and founder-run in Melbourne, LivePreso aims to make the complex feel simple and to radically improve the global standard and effectiveness of customer interactions. LivePreso is the only sales enablement platform that automatically creates world-class, data-driven and customer-specific content for sales and account management teams. Our powerful content automation products reduce preparation time from days to seconds, while boosting conversions, increasing customer coverage and providing total visibility of what content is being presented, shared and viewed by customers. Transform your business, not just your workflow: livepreso.com.
Advisor & Investor
Jul 2016
myprosperity is an award-winning collaboration platform for personal wealth, used by accountants and planners to better engage clients, and help them achieve their financial goals. From initial contact to ongoing service, the wealth portal enables finance professionals to redefine the customer journey each step of the way. With live feeds powering balance sheet, cashflow, budgeting and goal setting features, the portal is a white-label platform that also boasts efficiency tools like digital forms, digital document signing, and an ecosystem of integration partners (Macquarie, Netwealth, BGL, xplan and Class to name a few) for a holistic, all-in-one approach to household finance. Partners can also be in the pocket of every client with a white labelled mobile app or their own custom branded app.
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2026
Independent NED
Jan 2026
InvestorHub makes it simple for public companies to build direct relationships with individual investors. By reducing the time and cost of execution, our technology enables teams to focus on strategy and deliver stronger IR outcomes. Trusted by 200+ companies globally on the LSE, AIM, AQSE, and ASX.
2025
Operating Partner
Oct 2025
At Macquarie, we empower people to innovate and invest for a better future. We are a global financial services organisation with Australian heritage, operating in 30 markets. To find out more, visit us at www.macquarie.com To read our social media disclaimer, visit macq.co/SocialMediaDisclaimer
2022
Operating Partner
Mar 2022
For over 30 years, EventsAir has been developing innovative software solutions and services for the event management industry, creating one of the most comprehensive event management platforms that is trusted by event professionals around the world. Designed by event planners for event planners, the EventsAir platform gives you the ability to manage your event, conference, meeting or function with ease. From the most important task to the smallest detail, every aspect is covered, including; Communications, Event Websites, Registrations, Travel & Accommodation, Onsite Tools, Mobile Attendee Apps, Speaker, Exhibitor and Sponsor Management, to Budgeting and Reporting. Built on the highly secure and scalable Microsoft Azure cloud-based platform, you have total control of your event anywhere anytime in real time across all devices. Trevor Gardiner developed EventsAir to empower the event architect in you. “You are equipped with all the tools you will need to manage any event all in one place. Our platform has been designed with a security first methodology and offers PCI compliance plus a GDPR toolkit to assist with setting your data protection regulations”. EventsAir has been used by professional conference organizers and event planners around the world supporting medium to large scale events including Industry Associations, Corporate Events, Government Conferences, University faculties, plus a range of global events - Olympics, G20, APEC, Rugby World Cup, Commonwealth Games and many more.
2016
Advisor & Investor
Aug 2016
LivePreso has been transforming business outcomes and workflows since 2014 for blue-chip companies around the world, including Asahi Beverages, Booking.com, Flight Centre Travel Group, MYOB and REA Group. Entirely headquartered and founder-run in Melbourne, LivePreso aims to make the complex feel simple and to radically improve the global standard and effectiveness of customer interactions. LivePreso is the only sales enablement platform that automatically creates world-class, data-driven and customer-specific content for sales and account management teams. Our powerful content automation products reduce preparation time from days to seconds, while boosting conversions, increasing customer coverage and providing total visibility of what content is being presented, shared and viewed by customers. Transform your business, not just your workflow: livepreso.com.
Advisor & Investor
Jul 2016
myprosperity is an award-winning collaboration platform for personal wealth, used by accountants and planners to better engage clients, and help them achieve their financial goals. From initial contact to ongoing service, the wealth portal enables finance professionals to redefine the customer journey each step of the way. With live feeds powering balance sheet, cashflow, budgeting and goal setting features, the portal is a white-label platform that also boasts efficiency tools like digital forms, digital document signing, and an ecosystem of integration partners (Macquarie, Netwealth, BGL, xplan and Class to name a few) for a holistic, all-in-one approach to household finance. Partners can also be in the pocket of every client with a white labelled mobile app or their own custom branded app.
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