Tim Lovell Email and Phone Number
Director of Strategic Translation and Commercialisation | Head of Intellectual Property at
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Defence Science and Technology (DST)
Southbank, VIC, AU
Tim Lovell's Location
Southbank, Victoria, Australia, Australia
About Tim Lovell
Profile Summary • A fundamentals and data-driven investor with a long-term patient capital approach that between 2010-2014 sourced three early-stage privately-held healthcare asset investment opportunities in (PolyNovo, Opthea, Encore Vision) well before they became the impressive companies they are today in the public eye and 2 of which later achieved UNICORN STATUS (> AUD $1Billion in valuation by market capitalisation on the ASX or total transactional deal value) with the 3rd likely to achieve Unicorn status in the future.• A creative and innovative healthcare and software strategic leader balanced with business executive, leadership, operational, investment, financial, sales, marketing, market research and validation, R&D programme management, licensing, corporate development, capital raising, business development, intellectual property management, and legal acumen• An excellent communicator with an ability to interface at all levels and across multiple stakeholders and cultures• A Director with first-hand executive C-suite management experience in privately-held Australian biotechnology and mobile software and investment companies• A versatile specialist in finding, assessing via diligence, structuring, commercialising and operating entrepreneurial and commercial opportunities across the innovation sectors of healthcare, mobile and software and Defence • A solutions-oriented, hands-on problem solver with an enthusiastic appetite for new challenges• A highly self-motivated individual with a broad international network of connections and track record of commercial and technical due diligence across a wide range of industries, including investment, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, software, mobile, Defence and consulting and mentoring• A detail-oriented, analytical and data-driven decision maker with an intuitive pro-commercial-deal mindset • An executive leader (previously), good with people, good with numbers, and with balanced judgement • An entrepreneur and company founder with experience across the software, mobile, healthcare and investment sectors• First-hand experience across and with large corporates, start-ups, Angel and Venture investment groups, the Australian innovation ecosystem, and the State and Federal Government and innovation attitudes and investment approaches in other ecosystems (UK, USA, Sweden, Japan)
Tim Lovell's Current Company Details
Defence Science And Technology (Dst)
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Director of Strategic Translation and Commercialisation | Head of Intellectual Property
Southbank, VIC, AU
- Website:
- defence.gov.au/ADC
- Employees:
- 98
Tim Lovell Work Experience Details
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Director Of Strategic Translation And Commercialisation | Head Of Intellectual PropertyDefence Science And Technology (Dst)Southbank, Vic, Au
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Director - Strategic Translation And CommercialisationDefence Science And Technology (Dst) Jan 2022 - PresentMelbourne, Victoria, AustraliaDefence Science and Technology (DSTG) is the Australian Government’s lead agency responsible for developing and applying bleeding-edge science and technology to safeguard Australia.Key Achievements / Responsibilities • Executive Director with over 50 direct employees• A broad understanding of state-of-the-art technological innovation, product development and execution of adaptive commercialisation pathways from a practitioner's perspective within Defence• Provided ad-hoc innovation, investment and commercial advice and perspectives to colleagues, Directors and Executive Directors on request covering venture investment funding, commercialisation fundamentals, business strategy, agreements, terms negotiation, licensing, IP strategy, market analyses & predictors, strategic reports, business cases for funding, etc.• Led and developed the 10-year strategic plan for the Science Translation and Commercialisation team and • Envisioned and led the roadmapping for the 10-year strategic plan for a venture capital centric-model for the Defence industry innovation ecosystem • Mentor and advisor to the founding CEO of a Defence-led start-up company during all stages from sourcing and inception to licensing through to successful private capital raising -
Technology Lead And Analyst, Deputy Director Strategic EngagementDefence Science And Technology (Dst) Apr 2019 - Dec 2021Adelaide, South AustraliaSee above.
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Co-Founder, President And CeoCalpain Therapeutics Pty Ltd Nov 2010 - Mar 2024Adelaide, AustraliaCalpain Therapeutics was a privately-held biotechnology company focusing on applications of its phacoprotective and neuroprotective technology to treat front and back of the eye diseases associated with the ageing population.Key Achievements / Responsibilities • Led pre-seed and two seed fundraising rounds and raised finance of AUD $1.2M from multiple sources• Raised the profile of the company from concept to best start-up in 2011 in Australia according to University of Queensland Enterprize competition win and international media exposure and an international presence in ophthalmology• Led key strategic business development initiatives• Implemented the turnaround strategy for the company • Increased shareholder value by 500% in 5 years• First-hand experience of commercial business and technical drug development inside a start-up biopharma company• Led and managed company structure and formation process • Developed 5-year budgets and financing plans through to Phase 2 clinical trials• Developed connections into northern Californian venture capitalists and US healthcare investment banks as well as Australian venture capitalists • Developed and managed the pre-clinical R&D programme(s) and designed the clinical programme• Oversaw drafting, filing, managing and prosecution of the IP portfolio with the patent attorney service providers• Recruited and managed the leadership and commercial advisory teams and the expert ophthalmology pre-clinical R&D team • Full executive responsibility for running of the company • Managed various media interactions• Organised, chaired, attended and presented at all monthly Board meetings • Provided timely and complete Board communications to comply with governance and statutory obligations of a private company• Expanded the commercial capability of the Board• Expanded the skill-set and reputation of the scientific advisory Board • Organised and chaired annual shareholder meetings• Expertise in ophthalmology
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Founder And DirectorItbioco Pty Ltd Oct 2010 - Jul 2023AustraliaITBioCo is a personal investment company specialising in investing in a broad range of sectors, including life sciences, healthcare, medical, and IT, mobile, fintech and web privately-held start-ups and sector-agnostic ASX-listed technology companies.Key Achievements / Responsibilities • All time 52-week portfolio high of +1600% • Early discoverer of three privately-held healthcare assets well before they were thrust into the limelight and following diligence, picked to turn into companies will hit the billion-dollar unicorn valuation • 1 investment in early-stage Australian healthcare asset (now PolyNovo) achieved UNICORN status (>AUD $1B)• 1 investment in early-stage Australian healthcare asset (now Opthea) already achieved close to UNICORN status (> AUD $700M)• 1 discovered early-stage healthcare asset (Encore Vision) was acquired for total transactional deal value (up to USD $1.2B)• Sourcing, screening and analysis of new opportunities across the healthcare, science, high-tech and other high-value, high-growth innovation sectors• Scoping new investment themes through collection, storing and analysis of a range of data• Assessment of likely success factors, P/E ratio, long term potential, return on investment, financial modeling and risk levels• Staying abreast of current market trends, social and economic factors and new technologies across healthcare, software and finance• Review of current performance of portfolio on a weekly basis• Expertise in investment into privately-held and publicly-listed entities covering a broad and diverse range of sectors
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Co-Founder And CeoPfonr Pty Ltd Jul 2016 - Apr 2019Adelaide, AustraliaPfonr is a privately-held mobile app/IT company created to deliver a leapfrog product to facilitate close-contact professional networking and vastly improve on the way people advertise themselves to, and are found by, others at any small business networking eventKey Achievements / Responsibilities • Led pre-seed fundraising efforts and raised finance of AUD $90,000 from multiple sources• Raised company profile via business development outreach from conceptual unknown start-up to one which obtained early beta-stage adoption by 20 corporate clients running events in Australia in year one of operations• Led and managed company structure and formation process and assembled team with appropriate skill capability • Crafted business and strategic plans, and information memoranda and capital raising documents• Designed and structured the company’s business model to lead to positive cash flow• Designed the company’s pipeline of products consisting of a lead mobile product and a second mobile product• Undertook financial modelling of metrics, plausible sales forecasts and projections• Organised, chaired, attended and presented at all quarterly Board and weekly team meetings• Provided complete and timely communications to enable the Board to comply with all governance and statutory obligations• Managed the company in accordance with the strategic plan and financial limits agreed with the Board• Drafting, filing, managing and prosecution of the IP portfolio and managed the external patent attorneys involved in the technology IP protection through provisional and PCT filings (3 in total)• Led and managed the mobile product release with Apple and Google • Cultivated and managed the interactions with universities, corporates, not-for-profits, and state Governments as early adopters• Presented the company and its product at professional networking and business development meetings• Gained expert insight and foresight in industry trends in IT, cloud and mobile
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Founder And CeoViewsoft Pty Ltd Oct 2010 - Jan 2012Adelaide, South AustraliaViewsoft was a privately-held IT software publishing operation that exploited novel interactive 3D document technology in order to market and showcase new products and bring difficult educational concepts to life to make them more readily understandable by anyone.Key Achievements / Responsibilities • Designed and developed interactive 3D documents (3DSee) to showcase and market new products (with Californian company)• Designed and developed interactive 3D (3DSee) documents to bring difficult scientific and engineering concepts to life in an easily understandable fully-interactive 3D graphical manner (with Californian company)• Developed the Viewsoft digital media start-up operation with a Californian software company• Negotiated and drafted license and distribution agreements with Californian software company• Financial modelling of plausible sales forecasts and projections• Led and managed company formation and operations• Led and managed the capital raising round for the company• Raised speculative financing of AUD $10,000• Scheduled and chaired board meetings, wrote minutes, strategic plan, go-to-market strategy, etc. • Commercial interest from the Pearson publishing group • Gained substantial insight and foresight in long-term industry trends in touch-screen-based edu-tech and product-advertising software and web technologies
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Manager, Business Development And CommercialisationSouth Australian Government Feb 2008 - Oct 2010Adelaide, South AustraliaA State Government initiative aimed at growing the healthcare, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry locally and nationally.Key Achievements / Responsibilities • Hired as the global pharmaceutical expert• Performed due diligence on 60 opportunities over 2.5 years• 9 deals led to successful funding, structuring and formation of 7 start-up companies as commercial ventures with funding and licensed technology• Invested AUD $1,230,000 into opportunities, with the most promising investment into a company that I found and which was acquired later (via a public company share swap) yielding a market capitalisation peak of AUD $2.5B – a UNICORN (as of 18 February 2020)• Well networked into multiple high-technology sectors locally and nationally• Worked hand-in-hand on venture investments with Investment Managers and entrepreneur in residence • Evaluated business and strategic plans, and information memoranda and capital raising documents, for a number of commercial parties• Project managed multiple fledgling Australian biotechnology businesses looking for financing• Excellent exposure to and developed relationships with professional service providers covering local and national legal, accounting, finance and intellectual property firms and university tech transfer and commercialisation offices• Experience in viewing typical terms in commercial and venture capital investment agreements• Excellent written and verbal communication (particularly pitching) and negotiating skills• Developed an efficient outcome-focused and purposeful networking ability• Gained a balanced and practical working knowledge of legal issues, finance and accounting practices, and intellectual property, • Gained substantial insight and foresight in industry trends in healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics
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Associate Principal ScientistAstrazeneca Plc Nov 2003 - Nov 2007Gothenburg, SwedenAstraZeneca PLC is an Anglo-Swedish multinational global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company with 60,000 employees and a portfolio of products for major disease areas including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation. Key Achievements / Responsibilities • Internally championed USD $300,000 in funding for purchase of the key software • Conceptualised and pitched an easy-to-use IT-web-based portal for facilitating interaction between the AstraZeneca CEO and all employees of AZ • Have the AstraZeneca CEO on my speed dial! (as an occasional advisor and mentor)• First-hand experience of the real business of drug discovery and development inside a global pharma company• Ran lead discovery and optimisation projects as a lead computational chemist on projects spanning therapeutic areas of cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders, diabetes and obesity, and oncology• Led teams of between 4-30 employees on global technology discovery and medicinal chemistry projects • Expertise in profiling of chemical compounds and patent busting external compounds• Global lead for vendor software evaluation • General software/technology evaluation of new software technologies and companies covering all aspects of molecular modelling, including empirically-trained machine learning algorithms based on massive data sets, and prediction algorithms based on neural networks, Bayesian statistics and hierarchical clustering, data analyses, trends, parameterisation and derivation, etc. (misnamed today as artificial intelligence)• Successfully pitched ideas to Senior Management • Persuaded Senior Vice Presidents of Research (cardiovascular and oncology divisions) regarding in-licensing opportunities of interest to the AstraZeneca pipeline• Instrumental in the initial stages of finding and in-licensing of a new prostate cancer asset• Represented the company at local, national and international conferences -
Senior Research AssociateThe Scripps Research Institute Oct 1998 - Nov 2003La Jolla, California, UsaThe Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is a non-profit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. TSRI is the largest private, non-profit biomedical research organisation in the United States and among the largest in the world.Key Achievements / Responsibilities • Successfully raised group grant monies of USD $4,000,000 (NIH); consortium grant monies of USD $40,000,000• Won support from Nobel prize winner Barry Sharpless and the Department of molecular biology and TSRI Board to be chosen out of 800 other post-doctoral researchers to represent TSRI in the annual national Burroughs-Wellcome competition throughout North America (finally ranked #8 in whole of USA and Canada)• Approximately 50 publications across international scientific journals, book chapters and magazine articles• First-hand experience of the business of biomedicine inside the world’s best not-for-profit biomedical research institute • Specialised in applications of theoretical physics, computational chemistry, computational biology, bioinformatics, drug design and development, big data generation and analysis, and predictive machine learning (artificial intelligence, well, kinda not really!), as applied to solving problems in molecular biology, biochemistry, proteins, antibodies and small molecules relevant to lead compound discovery, optimisation and progression in the pharmaceutical / biotechnology industry and human healthcare (medicine)• Produced business plan for start-up company “InSiliClic Lead Therapeutics LLC” with Nobel prize winner Barry Sharpless but left for AstraZeneca position before the company came to fruition
Tim Lovell Education Details
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Australian Institute Of Company DirectorsDirector'S Fiduciary Responsibilities And Duties -
Australian Institute Of Business AdministrationGeneral Business Mba With Entrepreneurial Focus
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Computational Chemistry, Theoretical Quantum Chemistry/Physics And Molecular Modelling -
Chemistry
Frequently Asked Questions about Tim Lovell
What company does Tim Lovell work for?
Tim Lovell works for Defence Science And Technology (Dst)
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Tim Lovell's current role is Director of Strategic Translation and Commercialisation | Head of Intellectual Property.
What schools did Tim Lovell attend?
Tim Lovell attended Australian Institute Of Company Directors, Australian Institute Of Business Administration, The Australian National University, University Of Bath.
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