Lifebox Team Members

Leanne Jarchow

Founding Director

Leanne Jarchow, Founding Director

Leanne has spent more than 30 years in administrative roles that commenced in the Victorian Public Service, progressing to the private sector and culminating in a small consulting business in 2002. Since starting her own business and working with other small business entities including franchises, sole traders and even charity organisations, she has witnessed firsthand how all sectors and individuals struggle with maintaining their critical documents.

During this time Leanne's father Geoff Camps became seriously ill and later died from cancer in 2005. Towards the end of Geoff's illness, Leanne vowed to commit to helping the people who had helped and cared for him and set about a plan that would see her travel away from home to raise funds for the Alfred Hospital both in 2006 and in 2010. In 2011, Leanne joined the Heathmont Lions to assist others that need help in the Community and she remains a member today where she has also travelled overseas for short times with other members to see how help could be provided in Vietnam specifically with disadvantaged and orphaned children. Leanne's partner Manfred has supported her throughout these endeavours and remains an important sounding board to her ideas. Leanne's five young grandchildren provide the link to youth that she hopes will bring forward thinking ideas to Lifebox in the future.

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Abbey Mitchell

CEO

Abbey Mitchell, CEO

Abbey has spent a number of years working in administration and finance environments in both the public and private sectors. Through this experience she has seen gaps in managing administration and finance, as well as the significant issues that result from mismanagement. Abbey is focused on providing an innovative approach to managing personal information that will allow individuals and businesses to function with greater efficiency.

Abbey and her husband Paul live in Wodonga in Northern Victoria with their four children. Abbey has been working and studying while raising her family, and retains strong values of community spirit and a hard working ethos that she hopes will be a lasting example for her family.

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Stuart Bond

Developer

Stuart Bond, Developer

Stuart has joined Lifebox as the Chief Technical Officer and is a partner within the business.  He is also the founder and managing director of SimpleClick - a custom online and mobile development company on the Gold Coast.

He is passionate about improving development practices, creative connection, machine learning and using technology to help organisations achieve better outcomes.

A developer at heart, Stuart has more than 15 years’ experience in online application development and focuses primarily on solutions architecture, continuous improvement, and connecting with techies and partners.

In his spare time, Stuart continues to work on an album and three movies.

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Vision

While kayaking the length of the Murray River in 2006 and 2010, Leanne left Manfred and her son Daniel to “hold the fort at home”. While maintaining a full time business development role and managing media and fundraising for her campaign, Manny struggled with the basics of the home administration that Leanne normally handled. Everyone agreed that there had to be a better way, but life can get in the way of taking action to rectify those issues.

When travelling through Vietnam with a couple of her Lion’s friends Leanne decided to work towards creating a tool that could be transferable to other family members and be accessible from anywhere at anytime. The wheels were set in motion to create an App that would be particularly helpful in times of emergency, to streamline personal administration and to simplify life.

The bushfires of the summer of 2019/2020 brought devastation to so many Australian families and these natural disasters continued this year with floods along eastern Australia.

Lifebox has been front of mind for Leanne and a group of committed individuals and business owners to create an App that is secure, intuitive, low cost and easily accessible from mobile phones or via the internet.

The hope too, is that Lifebox will become an ethically sustainable company that can give back to the community by way of regular contributions to even the smallest of community groups and charities.

A program of allocating a percentage of Lifebox subscriptions to these areas while creating an education program that could be demonstrated to young adults with practices that can be used throughout their entire adult life is part of the future vision as is encouraging global citizens to become environmentally sustainable.

Our ambition is to become an example of a compassionate company for all who are associated with Lifebox in any capacity.

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