Biography

Tristan is a highly resourceful and purpose-driven General Business Advisor & Product Strategist, having worked in Large Corporate, Not-For-Profit, Small Business & Startup Organisations.
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Tristan has had the experience of having delivered:
The Commonwealth Government’s Digital Solutions program as a General Business Advisor, Business Developer & Strategic Stakeholder Liaison.
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Tristan has also delivered coaching a part of the:
- Small Business Recovery Centre - Townsville’s Concierge Program
- Advance Queensland’s Advancing Champion Enterprises ACE Network
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Tristan has significant domain expertise in the following industries:
- Business Strategy/Advisory
- Information Technology
- Commercial Construction
- Building Engineering
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Tristan has recently returned to Australia after several years working internationally in Europe & United Kingdom within the tech start-up & scale-up sector. This experience has cultivated his strategic planning abilities, tenacity, and social & emotional intelligence.
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Tristan helps Startups, Scale-ups and Small Businesses by performing Startup Due-Diligence Audit to provide a feedback loop to help those in the process of building / scaling business. The output of these reviews is a set of marked up founders' strategy documentation with commenting, ideas, opinions, insights and concerns. The intention is to identify problematic assumptions before they become an issue. Tristan has advised over 200-300 Small Business & Start-ups with a particular interest in Business-to- Business Models

Key
Achievements

OPS Australia
I currently sit on the Advisory Board of OPS Australia

OPS Australia is a growing ag-tech and data analytics company providing Australian primary producers with smart property management solutions for:
- Water Management and Assurance
- Remote Pump Control
- Automated and Integrated Control functionality
- Rural worker Productivity and Safety and more

OPS Australia is now positioning to be disruptive within the Australian and global ag-tech market and is in the process of raising a small Venture Round to bridge the gap between where it is now and a Series A level of business maturity.

Youteam.io
‍I was Employee no.1 of YouTeam founded in London and redomiciled to San Francisco.

YouTeam helps tech companies extend their engineering teams by leveraging a network of 20,000+ vetted contractors from hundreds of development agencies across the world.

Youteam was already turning over £1 million a year before it joined Y-Combinator, one of the world’s most prestigious accelerators (AirBnB, DoorDash, Coinbase, GitLab, DropBox, Stripe, Reddit, Zapier etc etc). Youteam went on to raise 2 Seed Rounds from u.venture VC and Digital Future VC.

Youteam is now a US$5+ million a year and well positioned for its Series A round.
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‍ProvenBase
‍I was ProvenBase’s first Product Strategy advisor & interim Head of Product Acceleration and helped appoint their current Advisory Board.

ProvenBase is a sourcing (recruitment) tool that produces unbiased talent pools. ProvenBase is built for Diversity.

‍Key Achievements
- They have raised circa US$1.5M
- Been listed as one of the most Innovative Business & Intelligence Startups in Virginia
-Attracted Bill Boorman to the board, who is one of the top global influencers in HR Tech‍

Accelerating Commercialisation
I was a Skills & Knowledge Grant Recipient as part of the Accelerating Commercialisation program (previously known as Commercialisation Australia)

I received a $50k Commercialisation Australia - Skills & Knowledge grant which is only awarded to the top 9% of Applicants, often considered by the start-up industry as the hardest grants to be awarded in Australia. The program since been renamed to Accelerating Commercialisation and is offer through AusIndustry’s Entrepreneur Program

Accelerating Commercialisation helps entrepreneurs, researchers, start-ups, and businesses address key challenges in the commercialisation pathway of bringing novel products, processes and service to the market.

My project was to commercialise ‘Green Unity’ a Software for streamlining and automating the compilation of onerous Green Star Submissions for the Commercial Building Industry in Australia back in 2013. I was awarded the grant when I was 26 and have since been sharpening my entrepreneurial skills through involvement in starting and advising start-ups.