Franki Chamaki

Co-Founder, HIVERY

Sydney

Franki was a founding member of Coca-Cola’s first Accelerator, a network of entrepreneurs working in the most innovative cities worldwide to build the next generation of billion dollar businesses with the support of Coca-Cola. In 2013, he set up internal startups for the Coca Cola Accelerator (now Coca-Cola Founders Platform). In 2014, it was spun out of Coca-Cola and set up as Red Garage Ventures, which builds startups connected to Coca-Cola’s global assets.

Franki is currently the Co-Founder of HIVERY, and heads its marketing & designs efforts. HIVERY is the pioneer of hyper-local retailing, combining artificial intelligence, optimization and design to help CPGs and retailers generate an increased return on physical retail space investment. HIVERY's solutions are unique, and use world-class technology originated in Data61/ CSIRO laboratories. Prior to this, Franki worked at AMP – a leading specialist wealth management company – where he led various business design roles and later years in strategy and innovation.

Growing up, he tinkered around re-inventing mousetraps to selling recycled rubber as erasers. He is often branded as a "Professional Geek" and has launched several early stage start-ups namely mockupmytattoo.com - an online service that helps people see how their tattoo would look like and spaceble.com - a peer-to-peer-marketplace for physical space. He specializes in and has a passion for an experimental mindset, open innovation, Lean Startup and Design Thinking; and goes by the belief that anyone who tries to improve a situation is a designer.