At 28, Melanie is already a serial entrepreneur who recently raised one of Australia’s largest early stage investment rounds as CEO of Canva, a disruptive online platform allowing anyone to create professional quality designs, to investors in Silicon Valley and Australia. Previously, Melanie founded her first company, Fusion Books, an online design system for schools to create their yearbooks. Fusion Books is now the largest yearbook publisher in Australia and recently expanded to France and New Zealand. To start designing, visit www.canva.com

Founder & CEO @ Canva is a simple-to-use online design platform that allows everyone to create professional quality designs. Canva will be launching later this year. For more info see: angel.co/canva From May 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaFounder and Director @ Fusion Books is an innovative online publishing system which enables people to create stylish and professional yearbooks quickly and easily even if they have had no publishing experience. The entire school, club or business can jump online and design photo pages, article pages and add their own profile. The yearbooks are then printed into a high-quality production which can be kept for generations as a special memento. After years of research and development, the Fusion Books system is now used by hundreds of schools across Australia and just made their international debut in France and over the coming months will be launching in more countries across the globe. From January 2007 to Present (8 years 11 months) Perth Area, AustraliaMultimedia Centre Technical Assistant and Tutor @ Providing technical support and tuition to students, using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash and iMovie. From February 2006 to October 2007 (1 year 9 months) Public Relations Internship @ From June 2007 to July 2007 (2 months) Sydney Area, Australia

Innovation Excellence Program (Commercializing Innovation) @ University of Western Australia From 2009 to 2009 BA(Arts)/BA(Commerce), Communications, Pyschology, Marketing and Management @ The University of Western Australia Melanie Perkins is skilled in: Project Management, Product Development, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, User Experience, Start-ups, Mobile Applications, Web Development, User Interface Design, Online Advertising, Social Media, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile Devices, Information Architecture