Ali Linz

Ali Linz has over 20 years experience across the gamut of marketing - as Strategy Planning Director of DDB, Sydney as well as her own brand and research consultancies. In 2015 she launched GroupTogether.com to join the Start Up world. GroupTogether is a group payment platform that takes the hassle out of collecting money from friends - particularly group gifts. It was used by one million Australians in 2022.Ali's motivation, apart from taking the challenge of a start up, was to reduce the waste associated with gifting and encourage people to donate a portion of their group gift monies to charity. So far, GroupTogether has facilitated around $350k in donations, mostly to Australian causes. Ali gained a classical marketing training at the global packaged goods company, Unilever. She moved...