Haydn Wright

Haydn Wright

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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    Management Consulting

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35-years of experience across corporate advisory, funds management, innovation, IP commercialisation, corporate restructures and transaction/project leadership roles. Aiming to retire at 88 as seeking new challenges and continual learning is my DNA.

Core strengths being:

o Stakeholder engagement across government, venture capital, research intensive organisations and private sector in domestic & international jurisdictions

o Innovation Pathway from concept to market adoption

o Intuitive thinking underwritten by due diligence and logic processes

o Leadership and collaboration that seeks to empower & support team members and partners

o Passion for innovation that has impact, market need and playing role in realising the commercialisation and/or adoption of the originators vision

o Not being an expert in all things but ensuring application specific understanding of the science/technology & market drivers is leveraged by knowledge area specialists

This focus has been delivered through senior corporate management & advisory roles, consulting to major research institutes & universities, concept origination & lead management of major property & infrastructure projects, developing private, public & government structured finance models and personal entrepreneurship in agriculture-based start-ups.

Having wide ranging roles from CEO of a Romanian property development company, concept origination & project lead of the world’s first cognitive Innovation District, facilitating start-ups from idea to capital raise, advising research intensive universities and institutes on intellectual property strategy, innovation & commercialisation and developing complex onshore & offshore financing structures for property & infrastructure my key learnings have been:

o Extensive research and due diligence are a key to the origination and progression of any project;

o Origination of an idea or project must be based on logic with success being incremental and subject to identifying and solving technical and market barriers; and

o Team and stakeholder engagement are critical for innovation as ownership is the key driver of innovation and commercialisation

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Experience

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    Melbourne

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Melbourne, Australia

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    Melbourne, Australia

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    Bucharest, Romania

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    Melbourne, Australia

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    Melbourne, Australia

Education

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Volunteer Experience

  • Volunteer

    Cambodia Elephant Sanctuary Siem Reap

    Animal Welfare

    I believe that it is important that when our family travels for a holiday to a new country, you spend time working in the local community. The Elephant Sanctuary was an example of this where, as a family, we worked with local community on creating sustainable projects and caring for elephants within the sanctuary.

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    Host Parent

    Melbourne Indigenous Transition School

    - Present 8 years

    Education

    The Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS) is a program that provides Year 7 schooling at facilities provided by the Richmond Football Club. At the end of Year 7 the students are provided scholarships with various Melbourne schools to continue their education. As a Family we were very fortunate to be selected to be a Host family for a great Yolngu Boy (now Man!) who lives with us during school term. It has been an amazing and enlightening experience.

Projects

  • Agribusiness

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    After leaving institutional banking in 1992 to establish a financing mechanism for the funding of motion picture slates for a past client of CIBC (Australia) Limited, Haydn focused on establishing new financing structures and enterprises across multiple asset classes including (i) Film Industry, (ii) Agriculture and Forestry, (iii) Structured Finance and (iv) University & Research Institute commercialisation.
    AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY PROJECTS
    • Established a Pyrethrum Agribusiness in…

    After leaving institutional banking in 1992 to establish a financing mechanism for the funding of motion picture slates for a past client of CIBC (Australia) Limited, Haydn focused on establishing new financing structures and enterprises across multiple asset classes including (i) Film Industry, (ii) Agriculture and Forestry, (iii) Structured Finance and (iv) University & Research Institute commercialisation.
    AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY PROJECTS
    • Established a Pyrethrum Agribusiness in Tasmania including the purchase and development of three specialised land-banks. As project originator, sourced seed banks via commercial partnership with Las Vegas-based entrepreneur and the University of Arizona (having been blocked from sourcing seed from the University of Tasmania), arranged off-take agreements with Mitsui (Japan), managed AQIS protocols and Tasmanian Government relationships, raised project equity and established corporate & farming functions and infrastructure. Appointed new CEO within 2-years to facilitate processing infrastructure with Italian partnership.
    • Two-year research & development program with Australian universities, Provincial Governments in China and a private investment group for the development of botanical-based pharmaceuticals including development of GAP procedures in China, clinical trial management and botanical bioactive assessments with Australian pharmaceutical companies.

  • PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS PROJECTS

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    PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS PROJECTS
    • Project management of proposal to establish new naval defence facilities including managing project feasibility, advice on sale of naval property assets, facility design, finance underwriting and Government/Navy liaison. Despite overwhelming benefits of relocation to the Hasting deep water site, the Navy determined to remain its primary Swan Island base.
    • Initiated start-up opportunity for the exploitation of a new construction material…

    PROPERTY, CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS PROJECTS
    • Project management of proposal to establish new naval defence facilities including managing project feasibility, advice on sale of naval property assets, facility design, finance underwriting and Government/Navy liaison. Despite overwhelming benefits of relocation to the Hasting deep water site, the Navy determined to remain its primary Swan Island base.
    • Initiated start-up opportunity for the exploitation of a new construction material based on a proprietary manufacturing method (ozonepanel.com). Tasks included:
    • Equity raise.
    • Securing Australian compliance including CodeMark™ and GreenTag™ certifications.
    • Marketing collateral & sales development including negotiation and management of distribution rights to Bowens Hardware.
    • On-shore manufacturing capability and product R&D program.
    • Establishing corporate infrastructure, governance and compliance systems as well as BIM modelling protocols.

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