Dannika Warburton

Sure thing.

Thanks, Daniel.

It's so exciting to be here speaking with you.

So, yes, I guess being an Australian and in an economy that's driven by natural resources, when I was at university, during my breaks to get a bit of money, I would go and work on the mine sites, which was absolutely fascinating, to be honest.

You know, if you've never been underground in a large gold mine, which I'm assuming you haven't,

It's just another world.

It's like going to the moon or something.

But it was an interesting sort of exercise that I did over those three or four years in the breaks whilst at uni.

And I guess by virtue of being a West Australian, my family was in the mining industry, so I was lucky enough to be able to do that.

But it really set the foundation of what Investability is, the company that I lead.

because a lot of the companies that we support are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

They're small caps.

And by virtue of the composition of the ASX, that means that a lot of them are actually mining companies.

So I didn't actually work on the mine sort of full time.

After uni, I got into investment banking and sort of did the rounds there.

They got their pound of flesh for me.

I worked for a US bank, actually, and then after that moved into sales and trading for a Canadian bank.

So sort of got the full spectrum of deal structuring and how these really transformational sort of corporate deals get done with an Australian focus.

So, yeah, that set the foundation and I guess is a pretty unique mix for Investability to sort of have that origin story.

But I suppose a real aha moment for me before founding Investability was I consulted to a digital investor relations firm for just about three months.