Research commercialisation professional with over a decade of experience translating early-stage research into commercial outcomes across universities and government organisations.
Holds an MBA, a Master of Bioscience Enterprise, a Postgraduate Diploma in Biological Sciences, and a Bachelor of Biomedical Science. Passionate about bridging the gap between Science and Business, translating technologies into investable, market-ready propositions. Earlier roles include Business Development Manager Intellectual Property and Commercialisation (Trailblazer) at Curtin University, Commercialisation Lead at Urban Utilities, Intellectual Property Manager at GRDC, and Commercialisation Consultant at The University of Canterbury.
Key capabilities
Innovation and Commercialisation: Managing an intellectual property portfolio, creating stage gate innovation frameworks, policies and processes to champion innovation
Growth: Negotiating licensing, term sheets and assignments whilst preparing commercialisation gap assessments across various intellectual property domains
Voice of the Customer: Identifying optimal routes for Intellectual Property for technologies that solve customer pain points, market validation, articulating the value proposition, integrating information into succinct business cases for pre-seed investment
Business Development and Stakeholder Engagement: Pitching technologies to industry partners and investors, facilitating researcher-industry engagements, fostering a culture of innovation by mentoring academics and organising innovation workshops, building relationships with venture capital, regulators and patent attorneys to facilitate commercialisation, protect intellectual property, identify and close commercial skill gaps.