Jim has over thirty years’ experience in business development and sales and marketing, for scientific distribution, in-vitro diagnostics and medical devices companies. He has held both domestic and international board and senior management positions and has extensive experience in growing companies from a zero market presence in Australia and Internationally.

He co-founded three companies – Techlab Enterprises, Pacific Diagnostics (sold to Baxter International, a Fortune 500 company), and Panbio Ltd (ASX: PBO, sold to NASDAQ listed Inverness Medical Innovations). Jim has been involved in company merger and acquisitions and various capital raisings including an IPO with Panbio.

He presently serves on five company boards involved in medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, retail, manufacturing and horticulture. He has also been an active angel investor for more than ten years having directly invested in various technology companies.

Jim holds a BSc (USQ) and BEcon (University of Queensland) and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.