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Grace Wong

Grace Wong

Melbourne, Australia

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Liven | Co-Founder @ Liven | 30 Under 30 Winner | Lawyer | Foodie | We’re Hiring

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Summary

Grace is a qualified lawyer with an accounting & marketing background. She graduated from the prestigious University of Melbourne with Bachelor's Degrees in Law (LLB) with honours) and Commerce. She completed her honours dissertation on the topic of tax reform in the gambling industry, while working with the Australian Government’s Responsible Gambling Advocacy Centre. Despite her young age Grace has amassed an impressive employment history, working in varied roles in areas such as Law, Client management, Administration, Digital Marketing and Website design and Multimedia. In recent years Grace has worked as both a Lawyer and Marketing manager at a well known Melbourne law firm, gaining experience in cross-platform digital marketing in addition to legal expertise. Grace is also a co-founder of Liven, a fast growing innovative startup based in Melbourne. She takes care of the human resource management (recruitment of talent) accounting management, marketing planning and implementation and merchant partner relationship management. A naturally personable girl, Grace is adept at forging lasting relationships with business owners. Grace is tech-obsessed and the very definition of an ‘early adopter’, she is always trawling the web to uncover the most trending apps and latest products. She is the go to person when there are any IT problems at her firm and she scored highly in computer programming in high school. She immerses herself in social media and marketing blogs, always up to date with the newest tips and tricks. She is tenacious, brilliant at negotiating and arguing. She believes all dreams are achievable for those who set goals and work hard towards achieving them. Her dream is to be a powerful influencer and leave a lasting legacy in this world. Grace is an avid snowboarder & figure skater, and also has a strong interest in hip hop & ballroom dance. Grace also owns three incredibly cute huskies. They are Youtube stars.

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Liven

1 Jun 2015 - Present

11yrs 2mos

Melbourne, Australia

Hospitality operators: We’re reimagining the industry so you can take back control of your customers, data and cashflows like never before. We give you the tools to build brand love, community and mission aligned capital to grow your business alongside your superfans. Liven provides the tools for hospitality operators to turn their brand into currency. They can then guarantee future revenue, lock in their best customers and get them spending more, all the while building brand love to new heights. Fans can also earn or buy community specific dollars which gamify the entire food ecosystem and relationships between foodies, restaurants and suppliers. By closing the entire ecosystem in circular economies, Liven’s full service restaurant operating system has expanded to integrate Payments, Loyalty, Community Engagement, Ordering, POS, Analytics, Marketing Automation, Delivery, Cashflow, Marketplace, Staff Incentive Programs, Supply Chain Integrations and more. Liven also delivers critical infrastructure purpose built for reimagining the hospitality industry. By helping thousands of restaurants, hotels, bars, and cafés integrate their tech stack throughout their supply chains, we’ve helped them have unprecedented control over their business and their data ownership, driving stronger profitability and a more resilient business model. With over a million foodies and over 5000 venues, Liven has over $2.8B AUD in annual TPV and raised from visionary angel investors, institutional VCs and strategic investors like Coca Cola.

Mahons with Yuncken & Yuncken Lawyers

1mo

Lawyer

1 Oct 2011 - 31 May 2014

1mo

Blackburn, Melbourne Australia

SWT

Marketing Executive

1 Jun 2012 - 30 Jun 2013

1mo

Blackburn, Melbourne Australia

In this role Grace has been solely responsible for the digital representation of the firm and all digital marketing, including successfully managing an advertising portfolio with channels such as Google Adwords, Sensis Yellow Pages, Facebook and Twitter.

Trainee Lawyer

The College of Law Australia

1 May 2012 - 31 Aug 2012

3mos

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