Hayley Melidonis is an accomplished business strategist, technology innovator, and partnership builder with a reputation for being agile, entrepreneurial, and creative. With more than 15 years of experience spanning consumer and enterprise technology and media businesses on 3 continents, Melidonis has established herself as a strategic designer, people leader, and tenacious executor of multimillion-dollar projects and partnerships at early-stage start-ups and global juggernauts, including Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Virgin Mobile, and Siemens.

Melidonis' key skills that have contributed to her success are innovation, forward-thinking strategic leadership, relationship building, super-connecting, entrepreneurialism, business development, resilience, and adaptability. These attributes have enabled her to drive complex projects and partnerships and establish robust, global partnerships by leveraging her ability to build rapport and establish a value exchange on multiple levels.

Melidonis graduated from the University of New South Wales, where she studied Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Marketing, Japanese, Accounting, Economics, Finance, and International Business, placing first in the degree course.

Throughout her illustrious career, Melidonis had held various senior roles, including Assistant Executive in Residence at Intel Corporation, former US Intelligent Edge IoT Scale Lead for the Industrial Sector at Intel Corporation, former Senior Partner Business Development Lead- Optane Technologies at Intel Corporation, former Automotive Innovation Strategic Partnerships Lead, Autonomous Driving Group at Intel Corporation, former Senior Business Development Manager - AR Partnerships at Intel Corporation, former Innovation Practice Consulting Lead at Skillsapien.com, former Director of Business Development at nativeX, and former Nokia App Store Advertising Partnership Programme Director at Nokia, amongst others.

Overall, Melidonis' wide-ranging career has been marked by tenacity, adaptability, and a continuous appetite for learning at the cutting edge. These traits, combined with her outstanding business acumen and excellent leadership skills, make her one of the most sought-after business strategists, technology innovators, and partnership builders in the industry today.