A leader of Deloitte’s Space agenda to accelerate the growth and scale of the Space Industry, with a focusneconomic growth and jobs. His team conceived the global Gravity Challenge, connecting downstream demand with space-tech supply capability delivering commercial outcomes for both the corporate organisations and innovators. Now in its eight year, it has seen over 1200 global teams participate from over 20 countries, to solve more than 50 challenges – resulting in over 30 commercial contracts for the space innovators.

A design and technology focussed executive with 30 years of experience in innovation and business development across dynamic tech sectors. He delivers strategic insights to diverse space ecosystem stakeholders including high growth potential tech companies, defence/space primes, universities, government (industry development, regulator and space data consumer and service provider), defence and downstream users of geospatial data such as mining & energy resources, utilities, agriculture and insurance.

He drives collaboration between government and private-sector space businesses to accelerate growth of the space ecosystem across the Asia Pacific region, connecting the dots across the entire space value chain.

As an experienced entrepreneur who has founded, scaled, and exited 5 businesses across Australia and Europe, he brings a strong entrepreneurial mindset, critical in helping to accelerate the growth of space business ecosystems and driving strong commercial outcomes across space-for-space and space-for Earth segments.