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XPON TECHNOLOGIES GROUP LIMITED — Interim / Quarterly Report 2025
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XPON Technologies Group Limited
FY25 Interim Results Presentation
25 February 2025
A recording of this presentation is available to view here: https://investorhub.xpon.ai/link/mep8Xe
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Disclaimer
This Presentation and has been prepared by XPON Technologies Group Limited ACN 635 810 258 (XPON or the Company). Shares in the Company are listed on ASX (ASX code: XPN)
The information in this Presentation does not constitute personal investment advice. The Presentation is not intended to be comprehensive or provide all information required by investors to make an informed decision on any investment in the Company. In preparing this Presentation, the Company did not take into account the investment objectives, financial situation and particular needs of any particular investor. Further advice should be obtained from a professional investment adviser before taking any action on any information dealt with in the Presentation. Those acting upon any information without advice do so entirely at their own risk.
Whilst this Presentation is based on information from sources which are considered reliable, no representation or warranty, express or implied, is made or given by or on behalf of the Company, any of its directors, or any other person about the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the information or opinions contained in this Presentation. No responsibility or liability is accepted by any of them for that information or those opinions or for any errors, omissions, misstatements (negligent or otherwise) or for any communication written or otherwise, contained or referred to in this Presentation.
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Certain statements in this Presentation, particularly those regarding possible or assumed future performance, potential business growth, industry growth or other trend projections, and any estimated earning or other performance measures, are, or may be, forward-looking statements. Such statements involve unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the control of the Company. Actual results may vary materially from any forward-looking statements and the assumptions those are based, and such variation are normal and to be expected.
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Any opinions expressed reflect the Company’s position at the date of this Presentation and are subject to change.
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Basis of presentation
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The following presentation and commentary have been presented on a continuing business basis, excluding all revenue and expenses associated with the App Mod business divested in December 2023.
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XPON is an AI marketing technology company. Our mission is to modernise marketing and customer experience.
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XPON’s products and services create a better ROI for businesses by:
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Improving targeting and measurement to increase marketing effectiveness Activating customer data to deliver more personalised and profitable customer experiences
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Our products are supported by services to ensure secure and effective value creation for customers
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| Products | Revenue | Revenue | Type | ||
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| XPON’s cloud-based platform that centralises customer data, enriches it with Machine Learning (ML) and AI, and allows rapid and simple activation of more |
Licenses | ||||
| profitable marketing programs. | |||||
| Scalable platform that provides computing, storage, analytics, Machine Learning | Usage Fees | ||||
| (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability tailored for Marketing and CX. | |||||
| Licenses | |||||
| Online advertising and analytics platform and tools for business to manage media spend more effectively. |
Usage Fees | ||||
| Services | |||||
| Project services | Consulting to help businesses use our technology products, including implementation, training, digital transformation project services, and AI |
Project Fees | |||
| readiness services. | |||||
| Managed services | Enablement and support to accelerate product uptake and continued value realisation of our technology products. |
Managed Service Subscription |
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| Recurring | Non-Recurring |
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Blue-chip customer base that is deploying XPON’s solutions
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| Financial services | Retail & travel | Media & entertainment | Other | |||
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| ROI |
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Continued momentum
Excellent progress against strategic roadmap
Statutory EBITDA ($375k) improved by $4.5m YoY[1]
- ✓ Sales recalibration ✓ Workflows optimised ✓ Capital management ✓ Targeted cash flow breakeven
Won prestigious Australian 2024 AI Award - Media & Communication Services
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Note:
1. Statutory EBITDA is an unaudited metric calculated by excluding interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation.
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Key Highlights
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Clear focus is delivering outcomes
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Customers - 7 new customers were landed and 12 existing customers were expanded during the half year.
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Revenue Momentum - Revenue performed in line with previous guidance with a strong pipeline from customers landed in H1 moving to expansion deals during H2.
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Path to profitability - significant improvement in Statutory EBITDA by $4.5m YoY to ($0.4m)
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Costs reduced significantly - ongoing cost management and process optimisation to deliver an additional c$0.9m in annualised cost savings.
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Awards - Won Australian 2024 AI Award in the category of “AI Innovation - Media & Communication Services”.
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Post reporting date - Convertible Note extended until 26 August 2025 to further strengthen the financial position
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Key financial metrics - H1 FY24 comparison[1]
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Financial metrics are presented on a continuing business basis (excluding all revenue and expenses associated with the App Mod business divested in December 2023)
7[%]
$ 4.2m
REVENUE
$4.5m $ improvement (0.4m)
STATUTORY EBITDA[2]
9[%] $ 3.0m
GROSS PROFIT
2ppt 73[%]
GROSS PROFIT MARGIN %
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Audited with the exception of Statutory EBITDA which is an unaudited metric . Compared to H1 FY24
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Statutory EBITDA is an unaudited metric calculated by excluding interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation.
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Successful Recalibration to Recurring Revenue1,2
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Sales strategy recalibration to expand our recurring revenue stream for long-term growth on track with mix expected to stabilise moving forward.
Recurring vs. non-recurring revenue
Revenue by type
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H1 FY25 H2 FY24
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Note:
- Figures have not been subject to review by auditors.
© 2023 XPON Technologies Group Limited2.Financial metrics, including recurring revenue, non-recurring revenue and revenue type, are presented on a continuing business basis (excluding all revenue associated with the App Mod business divested in December 2023)
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Revenue and ARR
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Revenue in line with previous guidance regarding softer topline revenue YoY as the sales strategy is recalibrated.
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Strong pipeline from customers landed in H1 moving to expansion deals during H2.
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7 new customers were landed and 12 existing customers were expanded during the half.
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Continued strong monthly customer retention rate of 98.9% ¹
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ARR decline was driven by seasonally lower variable usage fees at December exit and revenue churn from some existing Google licences.
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Secured new customers during the reporting period, their expansions have not yet offset the churn, contributing to the lower ARR.
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Profit & Loss summary
| Half-year ended 31 December | 31-Dec-24 $'000 |
31-Dec-23 $'000 |
Movement % |
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| Revenue 4,162 4,465 (7%) Cost of sales (1,129) (1,337) (1%) |
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| Gross profit (A$) 3,033 3,328 (9%) |
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| Gross profit margin % 73% 75% (2%) Other Income 7 60 (88%) R&D; corporate & other expenses1 (1,305) (5,772) (77%) Operating expenses (2,110) (2,536) (17%) |
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| Statutory EBITDA (A$)2 (375) (4,919) 92% |
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| ■ | Revenuedecreased by 7% to $4.2m, inline with previous guidance as the sales strategy is recalibrated |
Revenuedecreased by 7% to $4.2m, inline with previous guidance as the sales strategy is recalibrated |
Revenuedecreased by 7% to $4.2m, inline with previous guidance as the sales strategy is recalibrated |
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| ■ | Gross Profitdecreased by 9% to $3m and gross margin reduced by 2 ppts, due to a lower |
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| proportion of higher-margin licensing and lower margin earned on a portion of resold Google |
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| licenses. |
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R&D, corporate & other expenses[1] decreased significantly by 77% to $1.3m
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Operating expenses decreased by 17% to $2.1m benefiting from the ongoing cost management and process optimisation delivering additional annualised cost savings of c$0.9m.
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Statutory EBITDA improved by 92% to ($0.4m) demonstrating clear path to profitability
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Other expenses include the write off of related party loan & loss from disposed subsidiaries
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Statutory EBITDA is an unaudited metric calculated by excluding interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation.
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Balance sheet
| Dec 24 | Jun 24 | ||
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| For the year ended 31 Dec 24 TOTAL ASSETS |
$’000 | $’000 | Movement |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 5,464 | 3,449 | 58% |
| Trade and other receivables | 4,408 | 4,024 | 10% |
| Intangible assets Other assets |
1,377 597 |
1,407 967 |
(2%) (38%) |
| TOTAL ASSETS | 11,846 | 9,847 | 20% |
| TOTAL LIABILITIES | |||
| Trade and other payables | 10,816 | 8,204 | (32%) |
| Borrowings | 1,049 | 1,045 | (0.4%) |
| Contract liabilities | 1,644 | 1,653 | 1% |
| Other liabilities | 634 | 861 | 26% |
| TOTAL LIABILITIES | 14,143 | 11,763 | (20%) |
| NET ASSETS | (2,298) | (1,916) | (20%) |
| EQUITY | |||
| Issued capital | 22,630 | 22,630 | - |
| Reserves | 2,214 | 1,963 | (13%) |
| Accumulated Losses | (27,142) | (26,509) | (2%) |
| TOTAL EQUITY | (2,298) | (1,916) | (20%) |
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Focus on strengthening balance sheet stability through:
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improving working capital management
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addressing convertible note refinancing (repayment value $1.6m extended to Aug 25)
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Cash position of $5.5m supports FY25 cash flow annualised break-even
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Cash $2.0m YoY improvement, which will be utilised to proactively accelerate the payment of aged accounts payables.
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H1 accumulated losses reduced to $0.6m, demonstrating improvement and a positive trajectory in our EBITDA
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$1.6m contract liabilities at Dec 24 representing payments received in advance from customers with revenue to be realised in future periods.
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Outlook and priorities
FY25 - FY27 Strategic Roadmap
Horizon 2
Horizon 1
Realign for sustainable growth
Platform for scale
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Extend and diversify the distribution channels for our solutions.
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Reset the sales motion to grow a sustainable recurring revenue base (ARR) with primary focus on AUNZ.
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Explore accretive inorganic growth opportunities to expand solution offerings and recurring customer base.
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Develop people & capability to build on our culture, simplify workflows and alignment of rewards to business profitability.
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Invest in developing Wondaris® and AI solutions to further accelerate product adoption and global appeal.
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● AI automation and simplification of workflows and service delivery.
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Optimise balance sheet and establish capital profile to support future organic & inorganic growth opportunities.
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Cash flow breakeven in FY25.
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Horizon 3
Scalable profitability
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Accelerate accretive inorganic growth that will scale on the XPON platform.
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Targeting organic growth at rule of 40 or better.
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Annualised Recurring Revenue (ARR) represents ≥ 85% of revenues.
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Extension of vertical industry offerings to new sectors.
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Advanced AI adoption that streamlines service delivery and co-pilots our people.
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Strengthen balance sheet and optimise a self funding cash flow and EBITDA profile.
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Outlook and priorities
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Clear priorities for the balance of the financial year:
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Continue to monitor and optimise the recalibration of the sales strategy towards high margin long term recurring revenue growth
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Capitalise on our leading market position by driving continued AI innovation with Wondaris to accelerate sales cycles and enhance value realisation for customers
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Focus on sustainable profitability by leveraging our relationship with Google for pipeline generation and growing our recurring customer base
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Progress strategic partnering and exploring M&A opportunities to enhance shareholder value while addressing balance sheet and convertible note refinancing to strengthen financial stability
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Ensure XPON sustains a strong corporate culture and maintains high employee engagement and motivation
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Continue to monitor and manage our cost profile in line with business performance. With proactive repayment of aged accounts payable, full year FY25 cash flow break even may be impacted, however targeting cash flow breakeven on an annualised basis by end of FY25.
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Appendices
Leading position in AI Marketing
What is disrupting marketing?
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GLOBAL PLATFORMS (like Google & Meta) are deeply embedding AI into their advertising solutions - automating a lot of activities traditionally done by marketers and agencies. This means marketers and agencies must focus on capturing and using data more effectively to inform the AI’s.
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CMO’s are under continued pressure to do ʻmore with less’ and are demanding more holistic solutions that include content, media, data and AI from their marketing agencies.
MARKETERS are dealing with increasingly large amounts of complex data that is becoming more regulated with changes in privacy laws. This complexity necessitates the adoption of AI to help simplify.
AI has a flywheel effect on this landscape.
Businesses using AI will evolve more quickly, while businesses that don’t adopt AI marketing quickly will fall behind their competition.
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Customer data is a challenge - and an opportunity
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CRM
PoS
eCommerce
Loyalty
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Collection, Storage, Management Analysis, Automation, Prediction
Activation, Monetisation, Personalisation
Our AI marketing technology solutions make customer data more accessible, valuable, and profitable.
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What is AI Marketing?
AI Marketing is the use of artificial intelligence to enhance marketing outcomes and automate marketing tasks.
The predominant forms of AI in marketing are:
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AI can analyse vast amounts of data such as consumer shopping behaviour and brand interactions, generating insights quickly.
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AI and Machine Learning models allow cost-effective application these insights, enabling highly-personalised marketing messages, targeted advertising and product recommendations.
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Predictive AI
for forecasting customer behaviours
Generative AI
- AI can also generate content and select the content types most likely to engage and convert, based on the data-driven insights it gathers.
for creating content
AI automation
for streamlining repetitive tasks
XPON’s award-winning partnership model helps business unlock value quickly from the right AI Marketing tools
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AI marketing adoption is accelerating
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AI spend in marketing[1]
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Marketing predicted to be leading adopter of AI
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Forecast 31% CAGR to $107B in AI marketing spend from 2022 - 2028
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Companies that implement AI technologies see a 451% increase in qualified leads[2]
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1 and 2. Source: ` https://t.ly/fRPyW
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Our proven methods to accelerate AI adoption
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2 Understand and simplify Integrate robust data the Martech mix for AI collection and enrichment . adoption processes via Wondaris. Secure / private 3 That unlock customer 4 This fuels Wondaris’s AI insights, enabling targeted algorithms. and impactful marketing solutions.
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AI embedded within Wondaris
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Build intelligent
Centralise your audiences with AI for
customer data better marketing
in the cloud performance
Identify new
Activate
opportunities
audiences with
with enriched
1-click campaign
customer insights
automations
f from AI models
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The continuous improvement of Wondaris into modular, pre-built AI use cases enables customers and marketing agencies to quickly deploy our tools.
This allows customers to automate tasks and predict insights for deploying hyper-targeted advertising in digital channels.
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Case Study:
Challenge: UP Education sought to address rising customer acquisition costs by improving the effectiveness of their use of data and AI for marketing.
Solution: Partnered with agency partner D3 to:
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implement XPON’s Wondaris platform to unify, segment and activate their customer data for advertising.
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created dynamic course feeds for Google Search Ads 360
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created advanced analytics dashboards.
Outcomes:
Built AI-ready first-party data foundations while realising the following immediate advertising efficiencies:
28%
56% 64%
Decrease in Cost Per Lead (CPL)
Increase in Increase in clicks online leads
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Wondaris has been a game-changer for our marketing team. able to create highly targeted audiences and personalised messaging to deliver more effective and impactful marketing campaigns.
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Phil McCracken,
Head of Marketing & Communications NZ
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Leadership Team
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Mark Simari Jamie Olsen Matt Forman
Non Executive Non Executive Founder, Managing
Chairman Director Director & Group CEO
BOARD BOARD BOARD + EXEC
Rebecca He Chris Rozic Marcus Callon Matt Daniels
Interim CFO CGO CCPO CTSO
EXEC EXEC EXEC EXEC
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Team footprint
United Kingdom
Team breakdown
1
1
Vietnam
9
22
Australia
New Zealand
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Note: As at 1 February 2025, excludes on-demand contractors.
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Contact
For investors: [email protected] For media: [email protected]
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