Director and COO with 27 years of international project experience, working in innovation, IT, transformation, automation and technical services. Broad knowledge across all aspects of running businesses from Startups to large corporate enterprises.Since 2017 have been COO for the Slingshot group providing corporate accelerator services and innovation consulting to many of Australia's iconic and most well respected companies.Now a Director and COO of The Melt, with great conviction in delivering the vision to interconnect education, entrepreneurship, innovation, and investment. The Melt programs and investment are enablers for emerging businesses, corporates and students, with a focus on clean/climate tech and advanced manufacturing hardware products.The Melt provides a trusted and experienced hand for hardware startups to prove, prototype, pilot and produce. In addition to being able to access our prototyping facilities and technical specialists, we also have our own Melt Ventures seed fund and are deploying capital now.Spent early part of career laying international optic fibre undersea telecommunications cables in 40+ countries. These major projects developed an interest in technology and global supply chains which led into a decade of numerous roles including; GM of a commodity logistics company (handling 50 mtpa of exports through NSW and QLD ports), directing the global support team and the customer facing professional services staff for an ASX listed mining supply chain software company with most of the world's largest mining companies as clients (who transacted more than 1 btpa of commodities through our software).