Team

Energy markets, compute infrastructure and asset management — under one roof.

Tesseract DC was founded on a rare combination of cross-domain expertise: deploying energy and compute infrastructure, trading in Australian energy markets, and managing infrastructure assets at scale.

Leadership

Executive team

Victor Jiang

Victor Jiang

Managing Director

Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and former consulting and software industry executive. Founded his first company at 23 and has worked and lived across 12 countries over 15 years. Investor and board director in 10 technology companies across the USA, Australia and China, four of them as Chairman. Founder of the Sapien Group of companies.

Matt Mills

Matt Mills

Executive Director, CTO

Leads Tesseract DC's technology delivery — hardware procurement, hyperscaler agreements and regulatory compliance. A serial entrepreneur with 15+ years across blockchain, DeFi and financial technology, with deep expertise in large-scale networks and infrastructure. Chief Customer Officer at Tokeniser, a Redbelly Networks company, and co-founder of Liquidise and of Liberte & Co, exited in 2016. Instructor in AI and machine learning at Monash University, 2021–23. Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce, first-class honours, University of Sydney.

Geoff Stalley

Geoff Stalley

Chief Financial Officer

25+ years in accounting and audit. Currently CFO at Booktopia (ASX:BKG), where he led the IPO, and a board director at iSelect (ASX:ISU). Formerly Lead M&A Partner at Deloitte Australia and a Partner for advisory services at EY. Advisor to many startups and a mentor at Stone & Chalk.

Cormac Heffernan

Cormac Heffernan

Executive Director, Distribution

Serial entrepreneur and 20+ year capital markets and financial services executive. CEO of Prodigy Wealth and founder of Finplex; previously CEO of Powerwrap (ASX-listed, then acquired), Director at BlackRock Australia and at NAB, and portfolio manager at Investec and Invesco. MBA from the AGSM; Chartered Management Accountant and CPA.

Jim FitzSimons

Jim FitzSimons

Chief General Counsel

More than 40 years in the legal profession; world-renowned in intellectual property law and a seasoned corporate securities lawyer. Served 22 years as a Partner at Clayton Utz. General Counsel to Paralympics Australia, Director at SP Jain School of Management, Board Chair at GSP (a Sapien portfolio company), and advisor to several technology startups.

Advisory

Strategic advisors

Deep operating experience across technology, energy, capital markets and cyber security, drawn from the Sapien Group ecosystem.

Lucas Cullen

Lucas Cullen

Strategic Advisor

One of Australia's most renowned blockchain developers, and the only Australian to have won the Consensus Global Hackathon (New York, 2018). Co-founder and CEO of DLTx; co-founder and inaugural CTO of Civic Ledger; blockchain technical lead at ConsenSys and at Accenture Australia; software engineering lead at Bank of Queensland. Co-founder of Bitcoin Brisbane.

Andrew Ward

Andrew Ward

Strategic Advisor

Founder of the once ASX-listed SelfWealth Ltd, which he led as Managing Director from 2011 to 2020, and co-founder and Managing Director of Liquidise, which provides guaranteed liquidity to shareholders in unlisted companies. Founder and inaugural Managing Director of PlatformX (now FCX), established with FinClear. Executive Director at Redbelly Network; earlier roles at Commonwealth Private, Austock and Credit Suisse. Strategy Adviser to the Sapien Group and Hash Financial Group. Bachelor of Economics, University of Sydney.

John Baird

John Baird

Strategic Advisor

A technologist at heart, with more than 20 years in senior CTO roles in investment banking at Credit Suisse Australia and Deutsche Bank Australia. Founder and CEO of Revio Cyber Security; Chairman of the Cyber Security Advisory to the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation; advisor to the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub.

Colin Weir

Colin Weir

Strategic Advisor

FinTech entrepreneur, investor and digital banking strategist with more than 20 years across banking, payments and financial technology. Co-founder and Co-Managing Director of Mana Tupu Capital, the New Zealand funds management firm investing in AI, fintech, renewables, agri-tech and robotics. Founder and CEO of Moroku, which builds game-based digital banking experiences for institutions globally. Previously Director of Application Platforms at Microsoft, and Director of Software and Financial Services at Sun Microsystems.

Corporate structure

Australian-owned, Australian-operated.

Tesseract DC Pty Ltd (ACN 701 535 515) is funded and backed by Tik Token Capital, and sits within a group whose backers span Australian, Gulf and Asia-Pacific institutional capital.

Funded and backed by Tik Token Capital

Tik Token Capital finances, develops and operates AI data centre and high-performance computing infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific. Tesseract DC is its Australasian development and operating platform — the entity that acquires the land and generation, secures the approvals, builds the facilities and runs them.

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Backed by

  • Tik Token Capital — funding sponsor and backer
  • Mubadala Capital — the alternative asset management arm of Mubadala Investment Company, the Abu Dhabi sovereign investor
  • Al Fahim Group — the Abu Dhabi diversified family group
  • Sapien Group — the Australian diversified financial services group
  • Hash Financial Group · Mana Tupu Capital · 5D Capital

Ecosystem partners

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We are building a platform, and a team.

If you work in high-density facility engineering, energy markets, grid connection or AI infrastructure sales, we would like to hear from you.