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JUDGING PANEL MEMBER
Trent Blacket is an Australian born Lawyer and media / tech investor, currently based between Melbourne, Australia and California. Trent is a Co-Founder of EMT Partners, alongside Peter Davey and EIA Ltd.
Trent is also a founding shareholder alongside Quadrant Private Equity via Ward Blacket Investments LLC in Chris Hemsworth’s Centr.com and FLG.
Trent is a long-term co-investor partner with Amalfi Capital (San Francisco, Shanghai, Melbourne).
Leveraging his background in Commercial Law and Merchant Banking in the Asia Pacific region, Trent’s career has focused on specialist Media, Entertainment and Technology work as a lawyer, manager, strategy advisor and investor, focusing primarily on cross border deals between Asia, Australia and the United States.
Trent enjoys contributing to various non profit organizations, including as a founding member of the US Development Board of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and a Board member of the disability sector focussed Bus Stop Films led by Chairman, Peter Tonagh.
Trent was a founding Advisory Board Member of Westpac Bank’s Alpha (Entertainment & Sports bank) business, Chairman of Advance Los Angeles Chapter prior to his return to Melbourne, VidCon Australia Advisory Board Member and was formerly Of Counsel to Glaser Weil (a leading Los Angeles law firm) alongside his colleague, Greg Suess, representing Australian legal clients in California.
In 1996 Trent commenced his legal and investment career with TCA in Melbourne (part of the Kroger & Kroger, JT Campbell, Tanya Cirkovic family of companies), working there until 2006.
Trent holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Jurisprudence from Monash University.