Electronic engineering, finance, and venture capital (VC).
Doug has had wide and varied experience in founding, growing, managing and selling several businesses in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and Southeast Asia across multiple industry sectors. Doug has also good experience as an investment professional, with seed and early stage VC investment funds, as well as several angel investments.
Now Doug loves filling his days working with innovative, fast growth companies as a business and commercialisation adviser and mentoring start-ups across multiple different incubator / accelerator programs.
As a general partner in a small venture capital program he evaluates and invests in early stage technology companies, makes angel investments personally, and is pursuing his own start-ups in single serve wine packaging and business optimisation.
He has qualifications in electronic engineering, finance, and venture capital, and is also a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Doug is ready to ask you the hard questions that need to be asked.