Tammy Barton

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Tammy Barton
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Barton in the MyBudget office in Adelaide
Born
Tamara Jill Barton [lower-alpha 1]

(1978-01-27) 27 January 1978 (age 45)
Adelaide, South Australia
NationalityAustralian
OccupationEntrepreneur
Years active1999–present
Known for MyBudget Founder
Spouses
Eddy May
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(m. 2002,divorced)​
  • Nathan Barton

Tamara Jill Barton (born 27 January 1978) [1] is an Australian entrepreneur and the founder of MyBudget.

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Personal life

Tammy Barton is an Australian entrepreneur, businessperson and personal finance expert. She is the founding director of MyBudget, [2] a personal budgeting service based in Australia that aims to help people take control of their finances through budgeting and money management.

She has won many awards, including twice being awarded the Telstra Business Woman of the Year (Entrepreneur-South Australia), 2007 and 2017. Barton is recognised as one of Australia's most influential businesswomen [3] and she regularly appears in the media as an expert on personal money management and household budgeting.

Career

Barton started MyBudget as a home-based business in Adelaide in 1999 at the age of 22 after working at a debt collection agency where she witnessed the damaging effects of financial stress on people. [4] [5] The business has since grown into a national company that employs more than 250 staff in 15 offices across Australia. During that time, the company has delivered its money management services to more than 65,000 clients.

On 26 October 2012, Barton became an appointee to the BankSA Advisory Board. Chairman Rob Chapman said Barton brought "strong credentials and a passionate commitment to helping South Australia prosper and grow". [6] To this day, Barton remains director of and spokesperson for MyBudget.

For her business achievements, Barton has been recognised with a number of awards and honours, see below. During her acceptance speech at the Telstra South Australian Business Woman of the Year Awards in October 2017, Barton announced that MyBudget would be opening its first international branch, in the United Kingdom, in 2018 to further what she described as her "commitment to helping lead the global financial fitness movement."

In May 2020, MyBudget was the confirmed target of a malware attack.

Awards and recognition

Barton has won numerous awards throughout her career including being a two-time winner of the Telstra South Australian Business Woman of the Year Award (2007 and 2017). She has appeared in SmartCompany's list of Australia's Top 30 Female Entrepreneurs in 2015 through to 2017 and was awarded Female Entrepreneur of the Year by the League of Extraordinary Women in 2015.

Summary of awards:

Notes

  1. ↑ Birth surname unknown.

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References

  1. ↑ "MYBUDGET PTY LTD". dun&bradstreet. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "MyBudget".
  3. ↑ Hooper, Narelle and Fox, Catherine (12 October 2012). "Meet Australia's 100 Women of Influence". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Financial freedom just a budget away". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Moss, Cory (2 March 2004). "South Australian Tammy May's MyBudget business aimed at helping people budget is making an impact in different ways". The Advertiser. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Booth, Meredith (22 October 2012). "MyBudget founder Tammy May and former Ernst & Young SA managing partner Mark Butcher join BankSA advisory board". The Advertiser. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Griffiths, Luke (17 October 2017). "MyBudget founder Tammy Barton named 2017 Telstra Business Woman of the Year". The Advertiser. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Koehn, Emma; et al. (20 November 2017). ""Top 30 Australian female entrepreneurs 2017". Smart Company. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Keating, Eloise (26 November 2015). "MyBudget founder Tammy May named Female Entrepreneur of the Year". SmartCompany. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Top 50 Australian Female Entrepreneurs Under 40". Startup Daily. 9 February 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. ↑ Redrup, Yolanda (21 November 2013). "Planning for the future: How Tammy May created MyBudget". Smart Company. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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