Key hire
Getting to know the team - Meet Clare
Folklore's blog introduces new CFO Clare Power, who brings a quarter-century of finance experience from firms including Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, BT and Income Asset Management.
Company · Financial services
BT
Funding history
Investors
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round BT raised.
What BT bought
Companies BT acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
People
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Luke Barker | Director and GM (former) | ARN (ARNnet) |
Coverage
Stories naming BT. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Key hire
Telstra Purple hires Luke Barker to lead new security practice
Telstra Purple, Telstra's services arm, appoints ex-BT security executive Luke Barker to lead its newly formed security division, shortly after the telco announced a cyber security technology alliance with Palo Alto Networks.
Key hire
Industry veteran Andrew Rutter joins OpenInvest
OpenInvest, a Melbourne fintech investment platform, has hired industry veteran Andrew Rutter as Senior Consultant to help sell its white label digital investing solution to wealth management firms.
Series B
$25m
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Funding announcement
Channel security veteran Joe McPhillips heads to SentinelOne
Channel executive Joe McPhillips leaves BlackBerry to become SentinelOne's APJ channel sales director, drawing on past roles at Symantec, Cylance and other vendors as the security vendor grows its Australian partner base.