About Us

At GXE, our mission is to build the operating system for unlisted assets and fund management. We provide investors, fund managers, and family offices with the tools they need to succeed and enable them to focus on their portfolios and investors whilst GXE takes care of everything else.

A licensed financial services company, GXE holds Australian Financial Services Licence 460870 issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. GXE welcomes clients across sectors including corporate, family offices, pension and superannuation fund managers, private equity, property, and venture capital.

GXE was founded in 2020 (originally as Startup Galaxy) by Andrew Armstrong and Ed Hooper, after recognising a current market problem regarding existing friction costs and the lack of automation in early-stage investing in the Australian private investment market. Having previously co-founded Omnystudio, a leading SaaS provider of digital audio solutions and managed Cardinia Ventures, an early stage technology fund, Andrew and Ed saw an opportunity to redefine how alternative assets were managed to democratise, mature and streamline illiquid and private assets.

We are driven by a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, and we are proud to be building the future of alternative assets that empowers our clients to run their organisation and achieve their goals. Thank you for considering us as a partner, we look forward to working with you to build a brighter financial future.

Meet some of our Team

  • Ed Hooper

    CEO

    Former Co-Founder & CEO at Omny Studio audio management SaaS tool (exited to Triton Digital in 2019). Active angel investor. Founded Cardinia Ventures early stage investment fund which has completed 30+ deals across AU and the US. Worked at ANZ Bank, Funding Circle, Groupon and Microsoft.

  • Andrew Armstrong

    CTO

    Former Co-Founder & CTO at Omny Studio audio management SaaS tool (exited to Triton Digital in 2019). Active angel investor including AppBind, Chronosphere, Explorate, Spice AI and more. Built gaming and music products for Telstra.

  • Stuart Fox

    COO

    Built $230m USD business across 13 countries in Asia Pacific at Dimension Data. Established operations for one of Australia’s fastest growing tech companies. Executive leadership roles at NTT, Dimension Data, Thomas Duryea and British Telecom. Lived in Melbourne, Sydney, London, Singapore, New York, and San Francisco.

  • Samar Mcheileh

    INVESTMENT OPS AND COMPLIANCE

    Co-CEO of Scale Investors. 12+ years of financial services experience across a range of executive roles at JBWere.

    Worked in London for a Hedge Fund Publication and started her career in Logistics exporting scrap metal to South East Asia.

    Volunteered for 5 years at YWCA Australia, a non-profit young women's leadership and housing organisation.

  • Chelsea Newell

    INVESTMENT OPS AND COMPLIANCE

    Co-CEO of Scale Investors. 10+ years experience in the financial services industry.

    Worked at JB Were for 3 years as Business Manager working directly with the GM of Advice and GM of Products & Markets.

    Spent 6 years in London in wealth management and brokerage businesses.

  • Warwick Donaldson

    TRANSACTION SUCCESS MANAGER

    Over 10 years’ experience as an operator and founder in banking and finance and technology in Australia and China. Having participated in 40+ early-stage debt and equity transactions and $50b of institutional debt and derivative transactions.

    Warwick studied banking, finance and accounting and has worked in ANZ Bank's Treasury department, at venture-backed Nutromics and a myriad of other organisations.

  • Sarah Mills-Krutilek

    PEOPLE OPERATIONS ADVISOR

    Recruiter of amazing talent for high growth startups and scaleups, including: , Chronosphere, FrankieOne, Select Star, Spice AI and Udemy.

    Senior leadership roles in Silicon Valley at Dropbox, Tesla, and Twitter.  Former diversity and inclusion Lead at Twitter.

Join the team

At GXE we are proud of the work that we do, and would not be successful without our awesome team of dedicated people. If you’ve got the desire to be a part of an innovative, passionate and creative group of people in a hard working, fun and rewarding environment, then reach out to us today.