Leonie Walsh

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Leonie Walsh

Founder and Director, Productive Management Solutions Ltd

Chair, New Energy Technologies (C4NET)

Chairman and President, Fight Cancer Foundation

R&D Advisory Committee Member, Paintback Ltd

Forum Member, AusNet Services (Commercial Energy Services Forum)

Advisory Committee Member, CSIRO Manufacturing Business Unit

Non Executive Director, Australian Bone Marrow Donor Register

Advisory Board Member, Deakin University Centre for Frontier Material

Advisory Board Member, Swinburne University Centre for Transformational Innovation

Advisory Board Member, Deakin University Business School

Current Positions

Founder and Director, Productive Management Solutions Ltd

Chair, New Energy Technologies (C4NET)

Chairman and President, Fight Cancer Foundation

R&D Advisory Committee Member, Paintback Ltd

Forum Member, AusNet Services (Commercial Energy Services Forum)

Advisory Committee Member, CSIRO Manufacturing Business Unit

Non Executive Director, Australian Bone Marrow Donor Register

Advisory Board Member, Deakin University Centre for Frontier Material

Advisory Board Member, Swinburne University Centre for Transformational Innovation

Advisory Board Member, Deakin University Business School

Previous Positions

Inaugural Ambassador, Women in STEMM Australia

Chair, Department of Engineering Value Assessment Panel, University of Melbourne

Advisory Committee Member, EPA Science and Engineering Advisory Committee

Co-Chair, Patient Advocacy and Advisory Committee , World Network of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Lead Scientist, Victorian Government

President, Australasian Industrial Research Group (AIRG)

General Manager for Innovation, Marketing and the Environment, VISY

Global Product Delivery Director, Dow Chemical Company USA

Leonie Walsh is an experienced leader and adviser in technological innovation with a background that spans more than 25 years of experience in the areas of technology development and commercialisation both locally and internationally across a diverse range of industries and applications.

Leonie's focus is on strategic science and technology issues including innovation efficiency, technology commercialisation, the future skilled workforce and women in science through a range of related boards, advisory and advocacy activities.

Leonie Walsh has received a BSc and an MSc from Swinburne University, an MBA (Exec) from the Australian Graduate School of Management and is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. In 2014 Leonie received an Honorary Doctorate (HonDUniv) from Swinburne University of Technology for contributions and leadership in scientific enterprises, innovation and the community.