Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Xceptional
Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male
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Mike is the founder & CEO of Xceptional, a multi-award-winning technology firm that harnesses the unique strengths of people on the autism spectrum. Mike has been featured on ABC’s Employable Me, spoken at the CAST Association for Software Testing conference, TEDx Hong Kong and advised companies across the banking and tech sectors. Equipped
with studies in physics and computing at Oxford and public policy at Harvard, Mike has spent his career at the intersection between innovation, social impact and systems change. For 12 years, he worked in agile software teams in Hong Kong. His team built international systems to connect multinational corporations with nonprofits and 25 United Nations organisations. Mike and Xceptional have been recognised by a number of awards, including Westpac Business of Tomorrow, Optus Future Makers and the AMP Tomorrow Fund. Recently, Xceptional won the Google.org Impact Challenge of $1 million for their autism-friendly app, with the aim of impacting thousands of job seekers with autism. In his spare time, Mike is an elite runner with Team Brooks and has the world record for the fastest half marathon in a business suit.
