Howard Digby began his career at IBM and has spent over 25 years managing technology-related businesses in the Asia Pacific region, of which 12 years were spent in Hong Kong. More recently, he was with The Economist Group as Regional Managing Director. Prior to this he held senior regional management roles at Adobe and Gartner.

Upon returning to Perth, Mr Digby served as Executive Editor of WA Business News and now spends his time as an advisor and investor having played key roles in a number of M&A and reverse takeover transactions. Mr Digby has held a number of executive and non executive director positions with ASX listed companies.

He is currently a corporate consultant to Forrest Capital and an advisor to a number of private and start-up technology businesses. Mr Digby holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical), Honours, from The University of Western Australia.