Our Team

We are a team of professionals with decades of experience and extensive business networks in Australia.

Our story

We realised the massive employability problem for international students after their graduation in Australia, which could effect the entire international education industry.
We started with a vision to solve this employability problem by increasing the employability outcomes for international students/graduates by providing an internship opportunity and start their careers in Australia.

Meet our co-founders

Gerard Holland

Gerard is a chartered accountant and has been a business advisor to middle market businesses and early stage innovation companies for over a decade. Gerard has also completed his Masters in Entrepreneurship & Innovation and has been working closely with international students and graduates for over 5 years.

Gerard loves his Aussie Rules football (soccer) and is still actively playing today as well as supporting the Liverpool Football Club.

gerard@outcome.life

Domenic Saporito

Domenic is also a chartered Accountant and has been a CFO and COO of many middle market service and technology businesses. Domenic has founded over a dozen startup businesses including the ownership of an employment recruitment agency for 14 years.

Domenic has a passion for helping people and get the most out of themselves and their careers, enjoys public speaking and getting involved with Startups.

domenic@outcome.life

Meet other team members

Paul Breen

Advisory Board Chairman

Founder/co-founder or investor in ~10 companies in the past two decades. Pioneer of pop-up retailing in Australia and New Zealand having opened and operated 4,000 pop-up stores since 1995. Buyer and ‘fixer’ of distressed businesses. Investor in market disrupting companies like Epay Australia which grew to 90% market leadership in prepaid payments in 3 years and then was sold to a US-listed company. Start-up CEO of disruptive electricity retailer, Powershop.

Stephenie Pulis-Cassar

Chief Operating Officer

A polished professional with extensive experience across most business areas. Demonstrated ability to deliver outstanding customer service along-side significant internal operational improvements. A results focused, cross-functional Executive with a pragmatic approach to delivery, having designed and implemented multiple products geared towards driving revenue, profitability and growth. Thrive within fast-paced, high-pressured, collaborative environments, with the capacity to work both autonomously or as a part of a larger team. Effectively build and maintain key business relationships and enjoy managing teams and mentoring others

spc@outcome.life

Anja Goedhart

Marketing Manager

Anja Goedhart is our Marketing Manager and creates content to empower better employability outcomes for international students and provide host companies with diverse and passionate interns.

A storyteller at heart, Anja is passionate about using words to create connections and communities. When she’s not working, you can find her drinking hot chocolates, reading books, and hanging with cats.

anja.goedhart@outcome.life

Giovanna Cowling

Placement Consultant

Giovanna is part of the placement team at Outcome.Life in which she talks to new students and host companies every day about the importance of work-integrated learning.

Having studied journalism in Brazil, she is passionate about connecting with international students and sharing success stories of people who have found amazing employability outcomes in Australia after coming from another country. She’s always up for a chat and a good brownie!

giovanna.cowling@outcome.life

Joshua Tinner

Placement Consultant

Joshua is part of the placement team at Outcome.Life in which he talks to new students and host companies every day about the importance of work-integrated learning.

With several years’ experience in people-focused industries, Josh is always up for a chat and his booming voice can often be heard echoing down Hardware Lane! Josh is a life-long student of the humanities and envisions a world where there exists a balance between education making us well-rounded members of society whilst practically preparing us for our working lives.

joshua.tinner@outcome.life

Vintii Vasundhara Aggarwal

Work Readiness Program Coordinator

Vintii is part of the placement team at Outcome.Life in which she talks to new students and host companies every day about the importance of work-integrated learning.

Once an international student herself, Vintii is passionate about connecting with international students and sharing with them how she has navigated the same path and kickstarted her career. She is also a visual abstract artist and the winner of three UNSW hackathons.

vintii.aggarwal@outcome.life

Swathi Stirling

Placement Consultant

Swathi is part of the placement team at Outcome.Life in which she talks to new students and host companies every day about the importance of work-integrated learning.

Once an international student herself, she is passionate about connecting with international students and sharing with them how she navigated the same path and kickstarted her career. She also loves creative writing.

swathi.stirling@outcome.life

Leonie Schaefer

Content Coordinator

Leonie is our Content Coordinator where she helps create content to empower better employability outcomes for international students and provide host companies with diverse and passionate interns.

An international student herself, Leonie is a bilingual content creator who also enjoys playing the Australian sport, polocrosse (a mix of polo and lacrosse).

leonie.schaefer@outcome.life

Romina Colak

Placement Consultant

Dedicated professional with more than 15 years experience in a Chartered Accounting firm. I have performed various roles in different divisions of the company which have equipped me with numerous technical, professional and communication skills.

romina@outcome.life