Meliora Ventures • Fund One: First Close on the 23rd June

Our team

World-class talent witha proven track record.

We’ve led, built, and scaled international brands to breakthrough ventures. Now we help you do the same.

The Meliora ethos

Powerful transformation happens where disciplines intersect.


Creativity + Intelligence

Ideas that resonate, grounded in data and precision.


Humanity + Technology

Augmenting intuition with intelligence, without losing the human.


Storytelling + Design

Emotional connection meets engineering excellence.

The Meliora Partners

The Meliora Partners.

Our team brings world-class thinking and executional strength. We’re strategists, technologists, creatives, investors and operators with deep roots in AI, human-centred design and commercial execution.

Clive Dickens

Clive Dickens

Managing Partner • International

A media and technology leader with three decades across the UK and Australia, Clive co-founded Absolute Radio and went on to senior digital roles at Seven West Media, Southern Cross Austereo and Yahoo7. He founded Meliora to help leaders unlock growth in the AI age.

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Mel Lee

Mel Lee

Partner

Mel founded Backchat Media and joined Meliora as a Partner to establish a New Zealand presence for the firm. She brings deep experience in media, digital performance and audience growth across the region.

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Jack Lonergan

Jack Lonergan

Partner

Jack is a Partner at Meliora, leading product and strategy across the advisory and ventures practices. He works with founders and operators to turn AI capability into products that ship and scale.

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The Meliora Associates

The Meliora Associates.

Vijay Solanki

Vijay Solanki

Associate • Australia

AI, Entrepreneurship & Strategy Leadership. Passionate about NFP, digital health (3.0) & startups. Ex-Unilever, Philips, Shazam, lastminute.com & media +400 startups. Former CEO, CMO & CIO.

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Brendan Collogan

Brendan Collogan

Associate • Australia

Brendan Collogan has a wealth of commercial experience in digital products and content strategy, along with a profound understanding of content economics and commercialisation.

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Celia Wallace

Celia Wallace

Associate • Australia

Celia Wallace brings deep expertise in customer growth, brand strategy and business transformation, shaped by a rare combination of consulting, client and international advertising agency experience. Wallace’s experience spans both London and Australia, where she held senior roles at Saatchi & Saatchi, T&Pm (formerly The&Partnership), and M&C Saatchi Australia.

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Ricky Sutton

Ricky Sutton

Associate • Australia

Ricky's career spans three decades at the intersection of journalism and technology. He has reported from conflict zones, led international newsrooms, and advised international companies from News Corp and CNN to Microsoft.

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Amy McClelland

Amy McClelland

Associate • UK

Amy is tech native who specialises in premium audience experiences and scalable business growth. Helping startups break into international markets and guiding traditional broadcasters through digital transformation, she is a hybrid blend of creative, operational, and strategic expertise.

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Tony Moorey

Tony Moorey

Associate • Spain

Tony is an award-winning product and strategy leader with a proven track record of growing both new and established brands to reach record-breaking audiences. Known for combining creativity, insight and innovation, Tony is passionate about empowering teams, leading digital and cultural transformation and unlocking potential.

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Ian Walker

Ian Walker

Associate • UK

Ian Walker has held numerous senior management roles in digital / broadcast media across the world, including the UK, Ireland, Austria and his native Australia.

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Anthony Abbott

Anthony Abbott

Associate • Greece

Strategic and outcomes-driven product leader with over 20 years of international business experience in the media and entertainment sector, specialising in digital audio and streaming.

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Murray Barnett

Murray Barnett

Associate • UK

A seasoned executive with deep expertise in monetising and maximising sports media and commercial rights across international markets. As Founder of 26West Sport, he lead a specialised consultancy transforming how sports properties package, value, and monetise their media, sponsorship and commercial rights.

Stuart Wettenhall

Stuart Wettenhall

Associate • International

Stuart specialises in digital venture build, platform economics and new market entry following senior roles at Amazon and BBC Studios. He's led regional growth for AI video start-ups, been on the founding team of a $3bn content studio and advised some of the world's largest sports rightsholders on digital transformation. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC and is an early stage SaaS investor.

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Mike McMahon

Mike McMahon

Associate • USA

Mike McMahon is a seasoned product and technology executive with deep expertise in OTT video platforms and large-scale digital transformations.

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Krish Raja

Krish Raja

Associate • USA

With 16 years across big tech, media, telco and startup tech, Krish has commercialized some of the largest international data sets and platforms and launched new business divisions, products, revenue models, and teams.

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Lee Ellison

Lee Ellison

Associate • USA

Lee Ellison is a dynamic and accomplished Chief Executive Officer with a track record of driving rapid revenue growth and securing market leadership across both startup ventures and publicly listed technology firms.

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Strategic partnerships

Meliora’s strategic partnerships.

Auckland

Backchat Media

Backchat Media offers highly specialised strategic consulting for large organisations. They work predominantly with APAC businesses to oversee growth via all digital channels.

Hong Kong

Diagnal

Diagnal is a provider of technology solutions, specializing in OTT applications, content management systems, that empower media companies to deliver high-performance video experiences.

New York

Edison Research

Edison Research is a leader in audio, election, and market research, renowned for pioneering studies and providing trusted consumer insights to media, brands, and governments worldwide.

Sydney

Future Company

Future Company partners with businesses to transform ideas into impactful digital solutions. Specialists in delivering strategic planning, design, development, and ongoing support.

Los Angeles

IV.AI

IV.AI is a human-centered AI platform that transforms unstructured data into actionable insights, enabling international enterprises to make smarter, faster decisions across complex challenges.

London

Podcast Discovery

Podcast Discovery is a UK-based full-service podcast marketing agency dedicated to helping podcasts grow their audiences through strategic campaigns and cross-platform promotion.

London

TBI

TBI is a multi award-winning creative content agency delivering exceptional live events and audio/visual content to the biggest international brands and leading broadcast and media companies around the world.

London

Xperi

Xperi is a leading international supplier of customizable digital audio platforms that empower Media Companies to create engaging, cross-platform experiences for radio, podcast, and video audiences through its AIM solutions and DTS AutoStage.

London

Goldilocks Ltd

Goldilocks Ltd helps people and teams craft business stories that stand out – in the moment, in the memory, and in the market – through workshops, coaching, keynotes and consultancy.

Hollywood

1983 Creative

1983 Creative is a international studio producing film, editorial, animation, and visual arts that help brands tell stories with world-class cinematic polish, delivering end-to-end production across commercials, documentaries and TV campaigns.

London

18Sixty

18Sixty is a full service podcast agency that designs, produces, distributes and promotes branded shows from brief to ideas to production to promotion, combining deep audio craft with audience growth expertise to create podcasts people actually want to hear.

Los Angeles

Galvanized

Galvanized is a media and technology studio advancing modern storytelling through immersive media, interactive design, live events, and virtual reality broadcasting, delivering strategy, content, and real time digital engagement across sports, music, and entertainment.

Where we work

Meliora’s international markets.

Asia Pacific

Sydney, Australia

Meliora APAC 50 Miller Street North Sydney Sydney NSW 2060

The Americas

Los Angeles, USA

Meliora The Americas Suite 400 • PMB1058 453 S. Spring Street Los Angeles 90013 United States of America

Europe, Middle East & Africa

London, UK

Meliora EMEA 124 City Road London EC1V 2NX United Kingdom

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