Stephanie Newby, Founder, Golden Seeds

Stephanie Newby (formerly Hanbury-Brown) is the founder of Golden Seeds, and is responsible for the firm's vision and values, business development, and all operations. She is an active angel investor and a partner in both venture capital funds. Stephanie’s 20 year career prior to becoming an investor was in financial services. She has worked in all three times zones - in Sydney, London and New York. The majority of her career was with J.P. Morgan where she headed several global businesses (including positions as Global Head of Futures & Options, Head of International Private Banking, COO of Global Equities and Head of eCommerce) where she grew and managed revenue and expense budgets up to $500m. Stephanie retains a board position with public company Foster Wheeler AG, and privately held Carnegie Speech Inc. Her ten prior board positions include Riskmetrics Group, Design2Launch, UK Securities & Futures Authority, and Archipelago Holdings. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney.