| Tammy Barton | |
| Birth Name: | Tamara Jill Barton |
| Birth Date: | 1978 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Occupation: | Entrepreneur |
| Years Active: | 1999–present |
| Known For: | MyBudget founder |
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Tamara Jill Barton (born 27 January 1978)[1] is an Australian entrepreneur and the founder of MyBudget.
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.
She has twice won the Telstra Business Woman of the Year (Entrepreneur-South Australia), in 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.
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, with 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] Barton remains director of and spokesperson for MyBudget.
For her business achievements, Barton has been recognised with a number of awards and honours. 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.
In May 2020, MyBudget was the confirmed target of a malware attack.
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.
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