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Key Services Offered:
Business support and development.
Core Experience of Principal:
A specialist in the area of product / business innovation,
technology commercialisation and entrepreneurship. His expertise
is derived from a wide range of sectors including : - Project
Management for the UK Ministry of Defence - High volume consumer
electronics - product design & manufacture - Technology transfer
and innovation programmes, partnering SMEs with universities
- Venture capital - raising funds for early-stage companies -
Intellectual property protection, valuation and commercialisation
- Negotiation of technology licences, equity positions and options
- Establishing spin-out companies from the University of Western
Australia - Leveraging investment funding with state / federal
grants
Have contributed to a number of public and private innovation
programmes aimed at helping SMEs to develop a more strategic
and entrepreneurial focus. His aim is to help SMEs to achieve
their full protential, whilst at the same time assisting MDOs
to achieve a proper work / life balance.
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Qualifications & Accreditations:
BSc(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University
of Birmingham. Chartered Engineer (UK). Member of the Institution
of Engineering and Technology. Accredited Associate, Institute
for Independent Business (AInstIB).
Industry Sectors worked in:
Consumer and defence electronics - Mining exploration
technology - Software solutions (3-D Imaging) - Oil and gas sector
: Process instrumentation; novel catalytic cracking - Education
sector : On-line learning solutions - Nanomaterials and nanodrug
development - Communications sector - VOIP technology; active
noise reduction.
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