About us

As founder of Collabforge, Dr. Mark Elliott has successfully designed and managed a range of high profile projects, working closely with clients in a highly versatile and collaborative capacity.

Prior to founding Collabforge, Mark completed a PhD investigating the underlying dynamics and mechanisms that drive and enable online mass collaboration. The objective of this work was to provide understandings that could be directly applied to the purposeful engineering of mass collaborative projects and the communities that support them.

Hailey is a collaboration design specialist working with organisations to guide innovation opportunities from vision to reality. She has delivered over 30 innovation projects, primarily with government agencies.

Her expertise ranges from the development of strategic frameworks for innovation, to designing and facilitating collaborative workshops, to managing the development of online collaboration platforms such as the Victorian Department of Business and Innovation’s Trade Mission 2.0 site (trade.vic.gov.au), and a transportation planning wiki for the Southern California Association of Governments.

Bec takes the complex, breaks it down, and put it back together better. Her skills include project management, business analysis, measurement and evaluation, databases and automation, visual reporting tools, product management, social marketing and behaviour change, and web design and development.

Bec is helping to take Collabforge innovation and customer experience to the next level by streamlining our operational systems and leading the packaging and marketing of Collabforge products and services. Previously, she worked with corporate leadership in companies such as Newcrest Mining, Realestateview and APN Property Group to develop and implement targeted solutions to pressing operational and strategic challenges. She has completed a master’s thesis focused on the strategic design and delivery of social marketing campaigns to affect behaviour.