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Mona Zia is the Founder and CEO of Avant Tech, a Melbourne-based digital development agency partnering with SMEs and startups to design and build technology that drives growth, efficiency, and long-term value. With over 17 years of corporate experience, Mona has worked closely with businesses across many industries, gaining deep insight into operations, decision-making, and the often-unseen inefficiencies that limit scale and profitability.

Throughout her corporate career, Mona was consistently involved in helping organisations improve performance, streamline processes, and adapt to change. This exposure gave her a strong understanding of how systems, structure, and leadership intersect, and highlighted a recurring challenge: technology was frequently treated as a cost to manage rather than an asset to leverage.

That insight led Mona to establish Avant Tech with a clear vision, to help businesses build purposeful digital foundations that support scale, reduce founder dependency, and unlock new opportunities. Avant Tech delivers high-functioning websites, web and mobile applications, SaaS platforms, and digital marketplaces, with a strong focus on aligning technology to real business outcomes. In several cases, the platforms built by Avant Tech have evolved into new revenue streams by solving genuine industry problems.

Mona joined Future Proof because of its shared philosophy around long-term thinking, optionality, and building businesses that extend beyond the founder. She brings to the group a practical, execution-led perspective on digital maturity, technology as an intergenerational asset, and how intentional system design can create freedom, resilience, and enterprise value for founders at every stage.