Lindley Edwards is the founder and Managing Director of The VentureBank Ltd, and its subsidiaries, Venture Consulting Group and Helptech Pty Ltd. The VentureBank Group specialises in providing financial and strategic assistance to emerging and growth companies. The work is a combination of investment banking, venture catalyst, commercialisation, advisory and consulting services. All work is premised around the concept of turning Vision into Reality and bringing it into the bottom line performance of the corporation. The group actively assists and works with the enterprise and the entrepreneur/CEO as well as in the commercialisation of technologies.
The areas of focus of the VentureBank Group are:
Environmental Technologies
IT&T
Biotech
Services Tech (knowledge businesses)
Previously Lindley was a State Manager (Vice-President) with Citibank. Prior to this position she spent nine years with Macquarie Bank and was an Associate Director with the Corporate Banking Division. Lindley has also worked on a secondment basis for Boston Consulting Group and for the Victorian State Government Project.
She is an accountant and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Banking and Finance. Lindley holds two undergraduate degrees in Accounting and Banking and Finance. Lindley is a non-executive Director of the Australian Technology Park National Incubators Board and a Member of the Leaders Group for Environmental Industry Action Agenda run by the Federal Government. Lindley has been a state finalist in the Telstra Businesswomen's awards for Private Sector less than 100 employees. In the year 2000 Lindley was admitted to the Australian Businesswomen's Hall of Fame.
In 2001 Lindley was named one of Australia's Top 40 Bankers under 40.
