Going Global. An expert panel on taking your business overseas.

Taking your business overseas is a common milestone for most Perth startups. Whether it’s engaging your first enterprise customer in Singapore, opening your first sales office in the US or relocating your company to the UK, the challenges and pitfalls are everywhere.

In order to help you navigate both the known unknowns and unknown unknowns, startup support firm Scale Partners (https://www.scale.partners) have assembled an all-star panel to share their successes and failures in this space.

Expect to hear about:

• Hiring and managing talent remotely.
• Extending an Aussie Employee Share Scheme (ESS) to overseas employees.
• When to register your entity in another jurisdiction.
• Grants to support you.
• Trademark and patent strategy.
• Reducing forex losses.
• How to structure your corporate entities.

All this with a particular focus on the US, as we will be joined remotely from the US by the CEO of AirCFO (https://aircfo.com)

About the panel

Justin McLoughlin is founder and CEO of AirCFO (https://aircfo.com), a US accounting and financial consulting partner for high growth startups. AirCFO is based in Cleveland Ohio with a remote office in San Francisco, and has helped a number of Australian startups relocate to the US.

Amanda Kearney is an international tax specialist with 20+ years experience working with multinational clients, and for the last couple of years has been working with startups and scale-ups as Director of Scale Partners (https://www.scale.partners), a boutique professional services firm focused on Perth startups. Amanda is an active member of the Institute of Tax on their Membership Committee and International Tax sub-committee, and also current Chair of Women in Tax (WA).

Kevin Reece is CEO of APE Mobile (https://apemobile.com), a SaaS business focused on construction companies. Over the past couple of years Kevin has opened overseas sales offices in both the UK and US, and had navigated the numerous challenges involved.

Alistair Mann is a registered patent and trade marks attorney with a technical background in software and systems engineering. He is also a solicitor of England and Wales (non-practising) and has worked in both private practice and in-house roles. Alistair operates his own practice in Perth (https://www.mannip.com.au) and works primarily with local businesses and innovators.

The panel will be moderated by Rafael Kimberley-Bowen, a virtual CFO and Director of Scale Partners who works with startups as they expand overseas. Rafael is Director of various organisations supporting the ecosystem including StartupWA (https://www.startupwa.org), Techboard (https://techboard.com.au) and Perth Angels (https://www.perthangels.com), and an angel investor and venture partner at 808 Ventures (https://www.808ventures.vc).

Don't forget to head across the road before the action to grab a discounted coffee at Voltage Espresso. Just tell them you're heading to Morning Startup!