Hugh Stephens
Founder & General Partner at Galileo
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolHugh Stephens is a technology entrepreneur and investor with 11 years’ experience building and scaling SaaS businesses from consulting roots to profitable global products; he founded Sked Social, which helps tens of thousands of customers schedule and manage Instagram at scale. Trained in medicine with graduate studies in statistics and business systems, he brings a rare mix of clinical rigor, data fluency and hands-on product experience to digital strategy and risk management. He also co-founded Galileo to fill a seed-stage funding gap for university-born founders and actively invests in and mentors early-stage startups across Australia and the US. A former consultant and social-moderation founder, Hugh combines PR and policy savvy with engineering-led product development (early Rails/API work) to deliver practical, measurable outcomes. He’s been recognised on Forbes 30 Under 30 and publishes academic work in top medical journals, a signal of his cross-disciplinary credibility and unusual trajectory from medicine into tech and venture.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Grad Cert. Applied Statistics and Data Analysis Statistics, Grad Cert. Applied Statistics and Data Analysis Statistics at Colorado State UniversityBusiness Analysis Information Systems and Consulting, Business Analysis Information Systems and Consulting at University of StrathclydeBachelor of Human Science/Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons), Bachelor of Human Science/Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons) at Monash University
Github Skills (74)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DialogueConsulting/io.appium.android.ime
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes in 8 months
testingkotlinandroidunicode
DialogueConsulting/emojiboard
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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