Stephen has over 20 years of professional and consulting experience working in technical and commercial aspects of high tech and other industries. He has a strong track record of entrepreneurial endeavour having been involved with the creation and development of several new software/IT businesses. His widespread international experience, working extensively in SE Asia, America, Europe and China, was gained through organisations including Telstra, Suez Lyonnaise, AUSAid and UNDP. Stephen is strongly focused on professional development and executive education, as well as providing hands on mentoring and coaching for startup businesses in technology incubators. He has a technical background in database systems analysis, design and project management and holds a degree in Economics from the University of Sydney.
Robin Golding - Private Equity Brokers
Robin Golding has over 20 years experience in financial markets at CEO / Senior Management level and in managing the growth phase of global operations in multinational companies. He has worked in New York and London, and a diverse range of countries including, Australia, NZ, Asia and Africa.
For the past four years he has leveraged this experience as a business consultant, to assist small to medium sized companies in identifying and driving strategic business development opportunities and in raising capital. His consulting firm Capital and Finance Pty Limited is the holder of an Australian Financial Services Licence.
Robin is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Member of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board and an Associate of the Institute for Independent Business.
Craig West - Peak Partners
Craig West (M.Tax Law, M. Bus(Acct/Fin), B.Bus (Mgmt), ACPA, F.T.I.A., J.P.) is a strategic accountant who has built an investment bank for small businesses to help them face the four key strategic issues that SME’s face as they grow – Raising Capital, Building Equity, Protecting that equity and extracting the value you have built when you exit.
Craig is a CPA and has been advising businesses in management, taxation and accounting issues for over 15 years. He specialises in business structuring and succession planning and has had extensive experience working with clients to improve their financial performance –with proven results.
Craig has conducted numerous seminars throughout Australia for MLC, Midware Systems, the NSW Department of Regional Development, and CPA Australia. In addition, he has been a keynote speaker for AXA, Matrix and the Strategist Group. Craig is an accredited adviser with the Newcastle Stock Exchange and acts as a strategic business and financial mentor for business owners.
Craig has written three critically acclaimed books educating SME’s on employee incentives, succession planning and asset protection.
He is married with two children and lives in Oatley
James Tuckerman
James Tuckerman is Founder and Editor of Australian Anthill magazine, Australia’s first magazine dedicated
to innovation, entrepreneurship and the development of fast growth, creative companies.
Trained in law at the University of Melbourne, James commenced his career as a public relations consultant,
for Weber Shandwick Worldwide, where he specialised in corporate finance and investor relations
communications.
Since then, he has worked within or provided consultancy services to some of Australia’s largest and most
respected corporate institutions, including Telstra, Holden, Australia Post, AAMI and JB Were.
During his investor relations career, he contributed to the success of numerous finance and venture capital
public awareness campaigns, for both government and private enterprise, and has provided consultancy services
to assist with the introduction of several fast-growth companies to the Australian stock exchange.
James launched Australian Anthill magazine from his home in September 2003, with $28,000 in personal savings
and no experience in the publishing world. Since then, it has grown from the seed of concept to become
Australia’s leading magazine for technology developers and fast-growth business entrepreneurs.
By taking a youthful and often irreverent approach to editorial, it has cut through the Australian business
media, attracting a national circulation of 15,571 and a national readership of 37,370 – which places Australian
Anthill among the top five most highly read over-the-counter business magazines in Australia.
Its success was recently recognised at the Australian Bell Awards, presented by the Australian Specialist
and Business Publishers Association. Australian Anthill received the award for Best Small Publisher (for the
second year running) and was a Finalist for Consumer Magazine of the Year and Best Consumer Magazine Graphic
Design (a first for a business magazine).
James holds bachelor’s degrees in Law (with Honours) and Arts from the University of Melbourne Australia.
Peter Milla - Business Tree
Peter Milla joined the Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET) team in March 2005. Peter assists customers in Sydney and regional NSW.
Peter's passion is to convert Australian innovation into globally successful organisations. Peter has 22 years of commercialisation and business leadership experience. He has led start-up divisions for British and American multi-nationals, and turned them into high revenue, profitable divisions. He has also led Australian early growth companies to market segment leadership in international arenas and negotiated exits via trade sale.
He has launched products, built distribution channels and negotiated a range of commercial outcomes in the United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, UAE, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.
Peter's background includes research and development in satellite and terrestrial communications. He has commercialised technologies and products in industries such as information and communications technology, renewable energy, construction transport, agriculture and medical devices. His experience also includes capital-raising in Australia and the United States, where he has an established angel network.
Peter holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW).
Dr Wallace Bridge - Entrepreneurs in Science, UNSW
(B.Sc, M.App.Sc, PhD) has 20 years academic and industrial experience in biotechnology based R&D in Australia and Europe (UK and Italy). His major research interest areas have included; ethanol; cephalosporin C, nisin, thiol antioxidants; isoprenoids; fungal and bacterial glycosidic enzymes; lactic acid bacteria (dairy starter cultures and probiotics), bakers yeast; yeast extract manufacture; microbial biotransformations; biocatalysis and more recently immunology. Throughout 1995-2001, he was a Program Leader and Commercial Project Manager for the CRC for Food Industry Innovation and was responsible for the management of collaborative and contract R&D with a range of companies and organisations that operate in the Australian and international food, nutraceutical and biopharmaceutical markets. As the current Director of the Entrepreneurs in Science Unit of the Faculty of Science, UNSW, he has established undergraduate and postgraduate programs in innovation and research management for science and engineering trained students. He maintains research activities in the areas of biocatalysis and immunology. Technology for the manufacture of a novel antioxidant developed in his UNSW research group is currently being commercialised by Biospecialties Australia Pty. Ltd.
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