Meet the Xero Beautiful Business Fund judges

Meet our global judges

Our global judges will select one winner for each of the four categories, from the pool of regional winners across the globe.

Laurie McCabe

Co-founder & partner, SMB Group

Laurie brings more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry to her current role as cofounder and partner at SMB Group.

Becca McClure

Director of Transformation, BDO Global

Becca is responsible for bringing together and aligning the business services offering across BDO's 164 member firms around a common purpose to drive value to their clients and their own business.

Jeanne Grosser

Global Head of Partnerships, Stripe

Jeanne oversees Stripe’s relationships with financial partners such as leading banks and card networks, major technology partnerships, and overall business development.

John Hummelstad

CEO, Locatrix

John is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of business expertise. He has a background in venture capital, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions, building, plus experience growing software companies and highly motivated teams.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

CEO, Xero

As CEO, Sukhinder leads the growth and performance of Xero globally. With more than 25 years’ in Silicon Valley as a CEO, digital leader and board member, she has experience building and scaling global companies including Google, Amazon, Yodlee, Joyus and StubHub.

Nigel Piper

EGM, Customer Experience, Xero

Nigel leads the award-winning global customer experience team at Xero. His teams present knowledge, enable community collaboration, and provide digital support to the exponentially growing customer base, which currently sits over 3.7m subscribers.

Meet our Singapore judges

Our Singapore judges will select one winner for each of the four categories, from the pool of entries across Singapore.

Alicia Pan

Co-owner, founder and director, Move Repeat

Alicia is a singer/songwriter-turned-entrepreneur, and is the co-owner/founder and director of Move Repeat, a collective of specialist boutique fitness lifestyle brands dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences across select modalities.

Tan Chee Wee

Executive Director, Singapore Business Federation

Chee Wee leads in advocating for the interests of the Singapore business community in areas such as trade, manpower, innovation and industrial relations. He works with trade associations and chambers, government, private sector players and institutes of higher learning to spur capability building in businesses in digitalisation and business transformation.

Alan Chang

Managing Director, Singapore Corporate Services

Alan is an adept professional with 20 years of combined audit and accounting experience in Singapore and Malaysia. He started his Singapore CPA practice in 2015 and expanded to Malaysia in 2022.

Koren Wines

Asia Regional Director, Xero

Koren was appointed Xero’s regional director for Asia in 2022 whereshe is responsible for driving Xero's growth in Asia, working closely with leading financial institutions and governments in the region to bring value to the small business and partner community.

Nachi Leong

Onboarding Specialist, Xero

Nachi is an onboarding specialist at Xero.