Ross Hill (ross@rosshill.com.au) explores entrepreneurship, how people use the social web, and what’s on the horizon for humans.

Founder of Yabble, where locals share reviews of their favourite restaurants, cafes, bars and more (and one of Melbourne’s awesome tech startups).

After being hired by Deloitte Digital in 2008, he currently works part time in the Innovation Program at Deloitte Australia, where he also advises Deloitte on social media strategy both locally and globally.

While studying Entrepreneurship at RMIT University in Melbourne, he co-founded the popular entrepreneurial networking group The Hive (that runs across Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney) to create a space for successful entrepreneurs from all industries to share their journeys with those who aspire to create their own businesses.

After graduating high school he created Coverhunt – a CD cover search engine that today helps 100,000+ people find over a million covers a month. During this time he also started and sold Hatchthat – an interview blog that featured conversations with entrepreneurs.

He has given talks about the future of entrepreneurship and social media at the Churchill Club, Trampoline, Innofuture, Deloitte’s Social Media Innovation Lounge, BPW Geelong, Bridgeworks, Infoexchange, Mobile Monday and the Creative Performance Exchange.

His status as one of Australia’s “Twitterati” earned him invitations to attend the Australian Davos Connection’s 2009 Future Summit and Australian Leadership Retreat.

In 2009 he was named one of Australian Anthill Magazine’s “30 entrepreneurs under 30″ and one of Australia’s most influential business people.

As a freelance web developer he has ten years experience creating simple and functional websites under the banner of Thrive Web Marketing.

Living in Geelong, he can often be spotted in Melbourne, St Kilda, Fitzroy, Torquay, Barwon Heads, Lorne, and any other place there is a good cafe with a decent 3G data signal.

He’s having a lot of fun.

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