Patrick Michel Email and Phone Number

Deal structuring and term sheet negotiations taking into consideration the interest of various participating and non-participating investors in a capital raising

* Co-founded Laava to 'authenticate everything' - creating the world's first data-less serialised scannable mark - the secure upgrade to QR codes* Successfully developed and then commercialised a highly innovative technology and created a new market* Raised $7.5m over several rounds of convertible notes, preferred equity, SAFE and secured debt and handled investor relations* Secured $2.5m in four grants from CSIRO, AustCyber, Dept of Industry and Growth NSW* Responsible for finance, legal, IP, investor relations, operations, and corporate governance

Short term strategic financial analysis assignment

* Identified a significant energy efficiency opportunity in industrial lighting and positioned Watt Solutions as a customer centric, highly analytical, ROI focused vendor* Built a highly successful business without prior experience in sales, product sourcing, technical skills, business development, or operations* Implemented large energy efficiency retrofit projects with major national retailers, airports, printers, warehouses and factories* Added energy monitoring and sold the business to a partner in 2018

* Corporate venture capital investing in "cleantech in property" sector* Venture capital portfolio management, including origination, transactions and board participation* Non-Executive Director of Daintree Networks (originated, transacted, board) and Biopower Systems* Deal-flow origination with US cleantech co-investors

Family office of one of Australia's leading retailing entrepreneurManaged portfolio of direct investments (majority and minority) in retailing businesses.

Venture capital and private equity investing.