Naomi Simson
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Naomi Simson (born 22 February 1964) is an Australian businessperson, blogger, and entrepreneur.
In July 2017, she co-founded the Big Red Group (BRG) with business partner, David Anderson.
The Big Red Group includes marketplace brands Adrenaline (acquired in November 2018), Redii.com, RedBalloon and Marketics (Albert AI).
The group serves an experience every minute, and turns over more than $100m a year. Naomi is the founder of RedBalloon, an online experience gift retailer based in Australia which operates under the parent company the Big Red Group.
She has won numerous awards including the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Silver Stevie Award.As a writer, Simson is the author of two books, Live What you Love (2015) and Ready to Soar (2016).
She was a shark on the Australian television show Shark Tank.
Simson is also ranked as one of the top 30 tech influencers on Twitter by The Business Insider.
Career
Simson started her career in corporate sales and gained expertise with IBM, KPMG, Apple Computer Australia, and Ansett Australia. She founded RedBalloon, Australia's first online experience gift shop. She started the business out of her house with a $25,000 personal investment and increased it to 46 workers by 2011. Simson was CEO of the company until 2011, when she took a step back from the company's operational aspects. Simson co-founded Big Red Group with David Anderson in 2017, a company that later became RedBalloon's parent company. Adrenaline, Experience Oz, Experience Oz Local Agent, and Lime&Tonic are among the company's subsidiaries that have been acquired and operated.
Simson, Andrew Banks, John McGrath, Steve Baxter, and Janine Allis were named as one of five 'Sharks' on Network Ten's Shark Tank in Australia in late 2014. Simson's time on Shark Tank was spent helping the start-up community and investing in several industries throughout the show's four seasons. Simson had a lot of tips for start-ups regarding pitching, vision, and scaling. Simson has also appeared on Network Ten's Studio 10 as a guest host.
In the 2009 season of the reality television show The Secret Millionaire – Australia, Simson was a mystery millionaire. Simson worked in various remote areas of Australia for ten days on the show. Simson reveals her true identity to others and gives a percentage of the charities and individuals she supported during the exhibition. She was one of the season's five benefactors who gave more than $750,000 to many individuals and organisations in the community.
Simson is a blogger and owner of NaomiSimson.com, who was ranked number one in the 15 Best Business Blogs by SmartCompany.com as of 2016. Simson was voted one of Australia's best business bloggers in 2009 and ranked as the best business blogger in 2020. Simson has the largest online fanbase on LinkedIn's business networking network, with nearly 3 million followers.
Simson is the author of two books, Live What You Love (2015) and Ready to Soar (2016). She was one of 13 authors who collaborated on the 2008 book The Power of More Than One: Success and Motivational Specialists from Australasia's Top Market and Motivational Specialists, as well as a co-author who wrote a preface to the 2013 book Appvertising – How Apps are Transforming the World. Ready to Soar: Turning Your Brilliant Idea Into a Profit You Love -published in 2016.
Simson is also a philanthropist and has joined Voiceless to spread the word about the need for greater animal protection. She serves as both a head coach and governor of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.