Transforming a company with an 80 year legacy
b'Michael is an accomplished entrepreneurial leader with an executive career spanning three decades and eight countries within start-ups, corporates, government, academia and not-for-profit sectors His unique experiences range from establishing a world first automated antibody facility in Australia, an app start-up, a German DNA engineering company and multiple management positions in tech start-ups, finance and banking. \\n\\nMichael\\u2019s experiences include non-executive director and Chairman roles in banking, innovation, health and medical research. His areas of work include start-ups, growth, leadership and cultural realignments and transformations, stakeholder relations and strategy. Michael is the Executive General Manager at State Trustees where his vision is to humanise an 80+ year-old institution by recognising the changing demographic of Australia; both customers and employees. \\n\\nMichael\\u2019s superpower is to create stretchable boundaries to enable people to grow, a skill he honed starting in his late teens in California, and throughout his stints in Latin America, Europe and Australia.\\n\\nA true citizen of the world and innovation champion, Michael has been a sought after speaker globally on topics relating to leadership, biotech, complexity, innovation, start-ups and scale ups, culture and courage. A father of two teenage boys in a multicultural household, Michael has hitchhiked, hoboed, and cycled his way across North America, speaks five languages, is a SCUBA instructor, plays Aussie rules football, and is a hopeless handyman\\u2026 but still trying. Michael does not shy away from taking on a challenge and giving it his best shot, he is the eternal learner and seeker of experiences that make life worth living.'