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goPassport

From our inception in early March 2020 we have collaborated with the education and travel industries to peer review our process. The result ensures a no gaps approach that is relevant in their ecosystems.

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Our group's expertise spans border security, global health, tertiary education, travel, digital technology and analytics.

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Domain Experts

goPassport Leadership Team

The goPassport team combines deep domain experience in the key industry and sector elements. These include border management policy and platforms, infectious disease control and clinical operations, travel itinerary management and automation and large scale real-time analytics and management systems.

Matt McKinley

TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY | goPassport Chairman & CEO | DIDGIGO Founder and CEO

Global Supplier of itinerary management and documentation systems used by the international travel trade, providing quality and detailed logistics data for the traveller. Includes powerful itinerary in gestor from legacy systems, supplier content management tools, copy editing and multi-language ready, mapping, and travellers app.

Matt McKinley

Klaus Felsche

BORDER SECURITY | goPassport Chief Technology Officer | ALPHAZETTA Borders Protection

Founded the first advanced analytics unit in Immigration and Border Protection. Developed and deployed the analytics-driven Border Risk Identification System including multiple components of the Next Generation Border Security System, the analytics-based Risk Scoring Service for major visa platforms and a risk micro-service for the Electronic Travel Authority.

Klaus Felsche

Tony Ohlsson

DATA ANALYTICS | goPassport Chief Information Officer | ALPHAZETTA Founder and CEO

30 Years experience in Business Analytics across many industry sectors including banking, telco and education. AlphaZetta draws from the expertise of 780 Analytical Consultants worldwide to build applications and process through remote virtual project management. The hallmark expertise is cybersecurity and data privacy.

Tony Ohlsson

Dr. John Shephard

HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS | goPassport Chief Medical Officer | OSS HealthCare Medical Director

30-year medical expertise in communicable diseases and international public health. Has held senior executive roles in public and private sector organisations and advised numerous Commonwealth departments. Was responsible for clinical operations in Australia’s Ebola response in West Africa and led the first nationwide GP telehealth helpline.

Dr. John Shephard

Mark Radford

REAL TIME DATA | goPassport Corporate and Platform | KNOWESIS Founder and CEO

28 years leading Mobile Technologies companies, involved in over 6 technology start-up businesses though his Directorship in Rajah Blue Capital. Founder and CEO of Knowesis, a high performance real-time, analytics platform that performs automated alerts and encrypted location-based warnings, 7 x 24 platform and program management.

Mark Radford

John Crutchley

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS | goPassport Education Leadership | VOLT BANK Head of Int Banking

Head of Int Banking | Volt Bank Spent the last 8 years specialising in the International Student and Migrant Banking sector, focusing on pre-departure consumer problems and developing solutions that enabled ease of arrival into Australia. I ran ANZ’s Retail business in the UK and returned to Australia in 2018 to help build Australia’s first NeoBank – Volt.

John Crutchley

goPassport Team – Responsibilities

Jeffrey Aven

GOPASSPORT DATA ARCHITECT

A highly regarded Information Management and Analytics Consultant, Big Data Educator and Author. Involved in designing, shaping and delivering several large scale transformational programs. Experience across the entire Big Data and Cloud technology landscape as well as a solid track record of delivering tangible business benefit through the application of this technology.

Jeffrey Aven

Tom Klimovski

GOPASSPORT LEAD DATA ENGINEER

A seasoned engineer with a background in analytics, and now a focus on Cloud Platforms. With extensive knowledge and experience working inside the Cloud, Tom leverages his extensive knowledge of Kubernetes, Kafka, Dataﬂow, Functions, and understanding of modern software design principles and helps the team achieve goals in these fields.

Tom Klimovski

Scott Snowball

GOPASSPORT LEAD APP DEVELOPER

Scott is an experienced Project Lead and Full Stack Engineer with a demonstrated history working in the information technology and travel services industry. Scott is currently, Head of Mobile and Lead Developer for goPassport Australia and Didgigo.

Scott Snowball

Alec Gardner

GOPASSPORT PRODUCT MANAGER

A business analytics leader with over 20 years of experience across the financial services, communications and public sectors. In previous director-level roles, led teams assisting clients with digitisation via the application of cutting edge analytics, including helping to develop new approaches to innovation and discovery analytics.

Alec Gardner

Dr Martin Roberts

GOPASSPORT PRINCIPAL DATA SCIENTIST

Has assisted both public and private sector enterprises to transform and modernize their data strategies, platform, processes, products, and services. Passionate about increasing data and statistical capacities at all levels in order to make more effective evidence-informed decision-making.

Dr Martin Roberts

goPassport is being fast tracked by adapting existing and proven technologies

Expertise & Proven Performance

goPassport combines the data analytics expertise of AlphaZetta with the power of Didgigo‘s itinerary management systems and the real-time engine of Knowesis.

A letter from our Chairman

Read the letter from CEO, Matt McKinley which provides the background story of how goPassport was created and how our mission is to fight this virus’ impact on our economy and our people.

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Alphazetta, Didgigo & Knowesis

Current Clients

The companies behind goPassport provide digital and analytics capabilities to a wide range of Australian companies today. These range from the largest telcos and banks in the country, to innovative digital startups and to experienced international tour operators.

The following is a list of the Australian and international customers AlphaZetta, Didgigo and/or Knowesis currently work with:

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