Jon Tyson is a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who is passionate about taking ideas and translating them into focused products that people love to use.
Jon was CTO at Pollenizer where he helped incubate many Australian startups and led the technology team that developed Spreets and managed it’s transition to Yahoo after the exit of the business. Jon co-founded the white label group buying business Dealised which used the technology built for Spreets and co-ordinated the release of this product to installations around the world. Prior to this Jon headed up engineering at Kazaa and spent five years building the product into one of the most downloaded software products in the world and has also worked at Australia’s ICT Center of Excellence (NICTA).
Working in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Phoenix, Melbourne and Sydney, he has worked in GPS and GIS development, smart card technology, banking and finance; and internet and mobile technologies. At present, Jon is focused on innovation within the e-commerce space leading the technology team at Dashluxe and supporting other startups in the Australian market.
