Team

Brigitte Smith

Co-founder and Managing Partner

Brigitte Smith co-founded GBS in 1997 with 10 years experience in business strategy and hands-on management of start-up company operations. Before joining GBS she worked with high-tech start-up companies in Australia and the US in fundraising and business development roles. She also spent several years at Bain & Company, a strategic management consulting firm. Brigitte is on the board of GBS portfolio companies Applied Physiology, Cortical, Dynamic Hearing, Kalobios Inc, Neuromonics, Proacta Inc, and Viveve.

Brigitte earned her Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Honours) from the University of Melbourne, her Master of Business Administration (Honours) from the Harvard Business School and her Master of International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, USA where she was a Fulbright Scholar.  Brigitte is a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company Directors and an adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Business School, where she teaches Entrepreneurial Finance.