Matija is a Founder, Director and Educator with versatile knowledge and experience in Startups. Matija is often mentoring at the grass roots level Startups, providing tools and education to enable them to enter into global markets and successfully raise funds. 

Matija graduated from James Cook University with a Double Bachelors in Business/Management and Arts/Languages, she has lectured at tertiary institutions since 2015.

Matija launched her first Startup in 2017, which specialised in branding and marketing, working with global companies such as Cisco and Coca-Cola.

She went on to become Co-Founder of InBestThing late 2018 and is now educating international Startups in entrepreneurship studies. 

As a Director of the Australia Philippines Business Council, Matija is connected both locally and globally across many industries and governments. As a researcher she will be completing a Philippines first motivations study on the Philippines workforce in collaboration with F4S. She is passionate about providing opportunities for people to create solutions that will contribute to global prosperity and has completed Startup programs hosted by UCL, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific, JCU and UNE.