Karen Cantwell

Karen is the Project Director at Dunes Ventures, where she leads delivery of the FRWRDx program and several government projects focused on innovation. Before joining Dunes, she founded iStaySafe, an Australian wearable technology and IoT personal safety platform she built and led for over a decade. She brings a serial founder's discipline to all milestones, with a particular focus on founders who need to balance speed with getting the fundamentals right.