Melanie Perkins

About

CEO and co-founder of Canva who is one of Australia's wealthiest women. Before Canva, she created a company called Fusion Books, which made the process of designing a school yearbook easy with user friendly templates. This idea, along with successful venture capital funding would go on to become the billion dollar business of Canva.

Before Fame

She studied at the University of Western Australia, but dropped out at the age of 19 to pursue her business ideas.

Trivia

She took up kite surfing to network with venture capitalists.

Family Life

She is married to her business partner and co-founder of Canva, Cliff Obrecht.

Associated With

She sits only a few spots away from Australias richest woman, Gina Rinehart.