Tom Newby

Tom Newby is co-founder and head of data and AI at ProcurePro, a construction procurement platform he helped start in Brisbane in 2021 alongside Alastair Blenkin, Nathan Dench, Jesse Dymond and Tim Rogers. He spent the prior decade working across construction, infrastructure and real estate software, including co-founding the contract-management platform Hyra iQ. ProcurePro has since processed more than $100 billion in construction value and closed a $15 million Series A round in 2026 to fund AI development and expand internationally. He discussed the company's approach to AI on In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy.