About Team and Partners

The Power of Strategic People

No founder evolves alone.

Behind every strategic leap, every capital raise, every scalable breakthrough, there is a team of extraordinary minds.

At Invigour, we are privileged to work with a hand-selected network of advisors, operators, strategists, legal experts, capital specialists, and leadership coaches — all aligned to one mission:

To help serious founders evolve into the strategic architects their businesses and futures demand.

These are the people who help bring the Deal Readiness Model™ to life. Trusted partners. Proven operators. Quiet forces behind powerful outcomes.

Meet the team driving founder evolution forward.

Our Team

Paul Miller

Partner at Deutsch Miller
(Legal)

Paul Miller

Paul is a lawyer with more than 25 years on advising on M&A transactions with over 150 M&A deals under his belt. Providing a full range of corporate and commercial advice, his major areas of specialisation include:

Mergers and acquisitions (public and private),
Corporate advisory,
Capital raisings (both on and off market),
Shareholders agreements and joint ventures,
Restructuring,
Employee Share Plans, and
Drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements.

Michelle Kvello

Director at Lantern Partners
(Finance)

Michelle Kvello

Michelle is the founder of Lantern Partners, a CFO advisory firm working with founders of start ups and scale ups.

A key part of this advice is conducting a financial health check, designing the in-house teams, and financially preparing their business for a liquidity event so value is maximised and they can complete a transaction.

Her experience includes preparing the business financially and operationally for both local and international processes across a range of M&A transactions.

Brett Goodyer

Director at Business Valuations Online
(Valuation)

Brett Goodyer

Brett is an accomplished forensic accountant and the Founder and Managing Director of Business Valuations Online, where he leverages his expertise to deliver concise, accurate, and timely business valuation reports for small and medium enterprises in Australia.

Through innovative research and development, Brett has pioneered an online valuation portal that streamlines the process, providing high-quality reports within five days, alongside analytical tools and forecasts to help clients enhance business value and mitigate risks.

Additionally, his expertise covers fraud investigations and commercial litigation, and he frequently serves as an expert witness in Australian courts.

Kapil Mahashettywar

Director at Equil Advisory
(Accounting)

Kapil Mahashettywar

Kapil, with his extensive experience across various industries, has developed expertise in optimising business systems, implementing tax-efficient structures, and providing ongoing strategic advice, exemplified by his success in turning around a client’s business by $800K through cost elimination and real-time accounting solutions.

He champions a client-focused philosophy of delivering exceptional value through fixed-fee services, addressing common frustrations with traditional accounting models.

Through Equil Advisory, Kapil ensures business owners can focus on strategic growth by handling the operational “IN” aspects, leveraging efficient processes and tailored tax and business guidance to help companies thrive in any economic climate.

Tyler Capson

Director at TC3 Advisory
(M&A - Intangible Assets)

Tyler Capson

Tyler, as a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA) and Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (CVA) with an MBA from the University of Utah, leads TC3 Advisory’s efforts in delivering comprehensive valuation and M&A solutions worldwide.

His firm specialises in valuation services and transaction support for mergers and acquisitions, where he applies his expertise in finance, valuation, intellectual property, and global corporate strategy.

With a robust background that includes advising Wall Street giants at Deloitte and Goldman Sachs in New York on landmark deals like the Facebook IPO and Apple Bond Offering, Tyler brings a sales-minded approach grounded in operations management and business development, honed across the US, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.

Julie Cockerill

CEO and Founder at Lemon Co
(Culture & Resources)

Julie Cockerill

Julie is a strategic People and Culture leader, renowned for her experience in fostering organisational growth and cultural vitality for global giants such as Unisys, Booz Hamilton, Merrill Lynch, and Starwood Group, skilfully navigating through the complexities of start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, and culture revitalization projects.

With her unique set of skills, she helps organisations change the way they work and build their people resource systems to support Scale Up to keep their teams productive, energised and engaged in a sustainable way.

Jess Weiss

Managing Consultant at Human Tribe
(Leadership Strengths)

Jess Weiss

Jess runs a training and consulting company built to improve the performance of Leadership through Strengths optimisation and team working relationships, using a range of tools including the Gallup Clifton Strengths model.

Over 31M leaders and teams have engaged in this Gallup work globally. Jess has worked with over 2,000 clients, to build leadership and management capability, delivering workshops, keynotes, and individual coaching.

Our Partners

Our Partners are a select group of top-tier specialists who bring targeted expertise to Invigour’s mission of orchestrating extraordinary deals.

Engaged on an ad-hoc basis, they provide high-impact solutions tailored to specific needs, complementing our core team’s efforts. From accelerating revenue growth to navigating complex employment transitions or driving SaaS-specific strategies, our Partners deliver exceptional value, ensuring Founders are equipped to seize unique opportunities and achieve transformative outcomes.

Michael Laps

Founder at Laps Ventures
(Marketing)

Michael Laps

Michael is a top-line growth advisor with almost 2 decades of experience working with senior leadership teams and founders to drive revenue for their companies.

An award-winning marketer, he founded and was CEO of one of Australia’s premier independent digital agencies, which he exited in mid-2022.

He now helps mid-size businesses accelerate growth in navigating the worlds of marketing and business.

Rob Antulov

Partner at Modus Partners
(SaaS Specialist)

Rob Antulov

Rob has extensive experience in digital, social, tech and biotech as a Founder, Corporate Executive, Director, Consultant and external Corporate Advisor.

His most recent corporate role was Director of Strategy and M&A at Fairfax Media, where he advised the Board, CEO and Executive team on strategic growth, media convergence and digital expansion.

Having advised on well over 50 M&A transactions in the past 25 years, Rob is an essential part of the team managing the Competitive Sales Process and all fundraising activity.

Jen Bicknell

Director at Bicknell Law & Consulting
(Employment)

Jen Bicknell

Jennifer is an employment lawyer, running her own employment law and consulting firm which operates de-facto inside the Founder’s business. In any Scale up or transaction there are often changes in the Senior Leadership Team (and below) to enable the next phase of growth and to allow for synergies with any platform roll-up of a new business.

Jennifer helps Founders skilfully navigate this difficult area typically in a space where they have little experience, to handle difficult conversations that often occur in getting to the other side of restructures, and managing toxic / poor cultural fit employees and redundancies.