Co-founder & CEO
Stewart Bairstow
Co-founder & CEO, GRO3
Stewart Bairstow is co-founder and CEO of GRO3. He spent around two decades growing ADWEB, later GreenOrbit and Effective Digital, from 3 people to around 140, then led Rapid Circle Australia as Managing Director. At GRO3 he leads the business, its technology and the platforms that make growth systems work.
At a glance
Co-founder & CEO
Scaling technology businesses, cloud and business applications, operations, platform strategy
Managing Director, Rapid Circle Australia; CEO, GreenOrbit and Effective Digital
Information Systems, University of Melbourne
Career
Stewart has spent his career building and running software businesses. He grew ADWEB, later known as GreenOrbit and Effective Digital, from 3 people to around 140, taking a small services business into a software company with customers well beyond Australia. He then led Rapid Circle Australia as Managing Director, working with mid-sized and enterprise organisations on cloud and business applications.
Along the way he learned what most growth plans miss: the technology only matters if the business changes around it. That belief is why GRO3 exists. At GRO3, Stewart leads the business and its technology practice, including the HubSpot and monday.com implementations that give clients one platform and one way of working. He studied Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.
