Founded in Far North Queensland, where late or wrong information has a cost.

Virginia lives in Far North Queensland. When the last cyclone came through, her area was hit and the flood warnings came too late. Anyone who had not already evacuated could no longer get out.

We now have remarkable tools: AI, and more information than ever from cameras, meters, weather and sensors. We should be using them for our own benefit. It comes down to one question: how do we know the truth? Is the flood coming? How much power are we really using? Is that camera showing what is happening right now? Cloudsail combines what is already there to give the most accurate answer we can get today, independent of any vendor.

She started her career in finance, on the treasury desk at ANZ and as an adviser at Salomon Smith Barney. In 2004 she co-founded a credit-licensed lending business built around how lenders actually assess risk, and she has worked in commercial lending. She was the first investor in Shareablee, a social media analytics company later acquired by Comscore. She helped commercialise PumpCX's load-testing software, sold to banks and government, and has brought further products to market for enterprise buyers. Those buyers want evidence, an audit trail and proof that a system fails safely.

She studied chemical engineering and holds a Bachelor of Commerce in finance, accounting and business economics. She built Cloudsail to stay vendor independent, so the answer it gives is the one the data supports.

Phil is a co-founder and director of Cloudsail. He leads operations: coordination, procurement, experiment support and project administration.

He is a UK-qualified financial planner. In the UK he ran a restaurant business of about 125 staff.