Business News Australia: Australia’s Top 100 Young Entrepreneurs - featuring Rosterfy
40. Shannan Gove (36), Bennett Merriman (38) and Chris Grant (35)
Rosterfy
Melbourne
Starting out as an internal resource to manage staff scheduling for their company Spark Event Group, Shannan Gove and Bennett Merriman enlisted Chris Grant to expand the technology’s horizons with what would become Rosterfy.
Now with more than three million users, the volunteer management platform is used in 35 countries, with clients ranging from nonprofits to governments to sporting federations.
“Rosterfy allows organisations to recruit, screen, schedule, train, report, communicate with and recognise volunteers,” Gove explains, noting significant time savings for customers compared to traditional manual processes for managing volunteers.
“Our end-to-end solution offers organisations cost efficiency, scalability and compliance whilst enhancing the volunteer experience.
“Revolutionising the way organisations interact with their volunteers, our user-friendly, secure and engaging platform has allowed clients worldwide to invest in their volunteers, with tangible results reflected in high recruitment, engagement and retention rates.”
Gove adds the Rosterfy volunteer app was launched last year as an extension of the desktop product, resulting in 10,000 downloads to date.
“By putting volunteer opportunities in the palm of volunteers' hands, we are thrilled to be connecting more communities to events and causes they're passionate about,” he says.
In FY24 alone the company signed up such clients as the Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, St John Ambulance UK, Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation and OzHarvest.
In FY25 the company has received a funding boost of $8.5 million from existing investor Bailador and OIF Ventures, and has grown its team by 30 per cent in the past three months including key executive hires.
Recently, the platform played a critical role at the Super Bowl, where it assisted the host city New Orleans to manage approximately 7,000 volunteers across more than 13,000 shifts. This success led Rosterfy to be enlisted by the Bay Area Host Committee for 2026 Super Bowl in San Francisco, which will be the 10th Super Bowl it is involved in.
Merriman and Gove are no strangers to high-profile clients. They started Spark Event Group in their 20s, which went on to become a leading event operations and workforce providers with customers such as the Australian Open, Grand Prix and many more.
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