FYI CA Board was announced today: *Chair*
· Dr Laurie Hammond, Co-Founder and Director, iQ Capital Management Pty Ltd. * * *Members* · Dr Katherine Woodthorpe, Chief Executive, Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) · Dr Susan Pond AM, former Chairman and Managing Director, Johnson & Johnson Research Pty Ltd · Dr Bruce Whan, Director of Swinburne Knowledge and CEO of Swinburne Ventures Limited (Swinburne University) · Mr Nixon Apple, Industry and Economic Adviser, Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union · Ms Jan Bingley, General Manager, IP, Licensing and Technology Transfer, CSIRO news release at http://www.commercialisationaustralia.gov.au/AboutUs/News/Pages/mr090210.aspx cheers, Roger On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:15 PM, BrianMenzies <bmenz...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are working on an application right now. > > As I understand it Commercialization Australia have not yet appointed > a CEO (might not even have a board yet). > So March is probably a pretty aggressive date in terms of a first > round of financing. > > Seems that one aspect of the selection process will be focusing on > firms that have exhausted all other funding options > (not sure how this will play in practice - will CI really only fund > things that no one else thinks are a good idea?) > > Brian > > > On Feb 9, 9:41 am, David Jones <david.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > couple of questions for this anyone who has started applications: > > 1. Any updates on how the new process is going and any early lessons > > learned? > > 2. Does it look like the first approved group will be in March if you got > > started in Jan? > > 3. To my knowledge, no new 3rd party Case Officers have been awarded, so > who > > are the current case officers? > > 4. PoC and EC now seem to be quite separate in purpose - is it now wise > to > > apply for both at the same time or lagged? > > 5. any other wisdom? > > > > ta > > d. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<silicon-beach-australia%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
