Dr Kate
Adams

Dr Kate was one of the youngest female Directors to sit on an ASX listed board as a Non Executive Director for an innovative new pharmaceutical product using medical cannabis to treat osteoarthritis in dogs. The company was bought out by a human pharmaceutical company in 2021 and Dr Kate stepped down as a Board member in December 2021.

Dr Kate started in business building e-commerce platform, Thankly.com.au in 2014 which enabled people to send personalized handwritten thank you cards and luxury gratitude gifts. Users could choose their own handwriting and send anything from a boutique bottle of gin, vegan chocolate through to luxury skincare. Dr Kate identified a gap in the market when she was standing in a post office waiting to buy a stamp and thought there had to be a better way. At the time there wasn’t, so she built it. Dr Kate said “I’m always curious about things and I’ll always have a go at anything, and Thankly was like my entree into the business world before I built Bondi Vet hospital”.

In 2019 Dr Kate sold Thankly after winning multiple Australian business awards for innovation.

Her previous roles have included Chief of Staff for the federal attorney general’s portfolio as well as Head of Science and Technology for a capital raising firm.

Dr Kate as an expert in her field and innovator is still very involved in science, health and tech start-ups and fast-growing companies in Australia and acts as an adviser and consultant for a number of companies.

Dr Kate is passionate about assisting more female founders build multi-million dollar Science, Health and Technology businesses and often acts as an adviser for a number of companies and start-ups.