John Glasson
Scientific Director
Qualifications
Masters in Applied Science (University of South Australia)

Experience
John Glasson graduated from the University of South Australia in 1971.  He worked for 12 years in a multi-disciplinary regional laboratory before transferring to the city of Adelaide, where he managed a 24-hour emergency clinical pathology service within the 1,000-bed Royal Adelaide Hospital for 8 years. During this period he gained a Master of Science degree from the University of South Australia and a post-graduate fellowship in microbiology from the Australian Institute of Medical Scientists.

John was appointed to a senior lecturer position at the University of South Australia in 1985 and has a continuing involvement with the biomedical science faculty. In 1992 John became the regional laboratory manager for the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS).  John held the position of Chief Scientist within the Division of Clinical Pathology at the IMVS for 7 years.  The laboratory provides a core service for the IMVS network and handles up to 9000 clinical samples each day.

Since 1985 John has been involved in the review of laboratory services within the IMVS and for private management consultants.  He has visited some of the largest automated laboratories in Asia and USA and overseen the re-engineering of processes at several laboratories using workflow analysis tools such as Lean and Six Sigma.  John has a significant interest in automation and was responsible for the introduction of several automated specimen-handling systems within the IMVS. John’s interests in process re-engineering, automation and microbiology led to the development of a device for inoculating and spreading samples onto agar plates.

Graeme Bullock
Technology Development Manager
LBT Innovations

Graeme started his career in Defence research, working on joint Australian–US programs developing laser weapons. He then joined the product engineering firm Invetech and headed technology commercialisation projects for clients globally, as Principal Consultant in the Applied Sciences and Innovation Groups for 15 years.

Graeme’s experience covers product development and sales and marketing of new high technology products. His technical expertise includes optics, lasers, infra‐red, x‐ray and imaging technology, electro‐mechanical systems engineering, microfluidics and point‐of‐care medical diagnostics. He has worked as Engineering Director in several high-tech startups and has managed the intellectual property portfolio for the University of Melbourne.

More recently, Graeme has managed an automotive research consortium and has provided commercialisation advice to SMEs with the Australian Institute for Commercialisation. Graeme is a Member of the Institute of Engineers and has authored four patents in the fields of optics and microfluidics.

Hugo LeMessurier
Managing Director
LeMessurier Solutions Pty Ltd

Hugo LeMessurier has 17 years experience in establishing, managing and advising companies in biotechnology, diagnostics, medical device, ICT, food, industrial and service industries. His career began at Genzyme Corporation where he held senior sales and marketing roles over a period of 8 years in the Diagnostics division in both the EU and USA. Following his return to Australia he founded a number of start up businesses and has held CEO roles in food, construction and diagnostics businesses as well as leading an early stage biotechnology company to listing.

Hugo has significant international experience in global sales and marketing, business development, strategic alliances, distribution, corporate planning, research and development, product management, regulatory, operations and management of multinational teams. As a strategic business consultant with LeMessurier Solutions he has provided corporate advisory, training, investment and planning advice to organisations in a wide range of industries through Commonwealth grant programs and assisted in the raising of over $10 million in early stage venture equity.

Hugo is a director of Cryptogen, Synergy Trading and Moducom and is a member of The University of Adelaide Commercial Accelerator Scheme and Commercial Opportunity Panel, the Department of Economic Trade and Development Cleantech Grant panel, AusBiotech, AICD. He is also an investor in early stage Australian technology companies and is an active member of a number of Angel investment groups.

Kea Imgraben
Managing Director
KD&A

Greg Bartlett
Partner
Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick
Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick has been at the forefront of intellectual property law in Australia since its establishment in 1888 and has offices in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. 

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick is a full service IP group, which incorporates a patent and trade mark attorney firm, a law firm and a research and investigation company. 

Together, these parts of Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick provide a comprehensive range of services to assist in the identification, protection, management, exploitation and enforcement of a client’s intellectual property assets in Australia and globally, particularly including the strategic use of patents, trade mark registrations, design registrations and other means available under law.

About Greg
Greg Bartlett has been in the patent attorney profession for 25 years and is the Partner in charge of the Adelaide office of the large national firm of Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick, also having a position on that firm's Board. 

Greg is a chemical engineer (with a Graduate Diploma in Science & Technology Commercialization) who handles patent work in a wide range of technical disciplines, with his predominantly local client base requiring him to be across the full range of issues that test small business and start-ups in the intellectual property space. 

Formerly a Board Member and Examiner on the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys, Greg has also lectured in IP at both Adelaide University and Melbourne University and often conducts seminars and workshops around Adelaide.

Steven Yatomi-Clarke
Director, Corporate Finance
Patersons Corporate Finance

LBT has mandated Patersons Securities Limited as its Corporate Advisor.

Established in 1903, Patersons Securities is one of Australia’s largest full service stockbroking and financial services firms.

Patersons have a powerful advisory team, a highly respected institutional dealing arm, award-winning corporate finance and equities research teams, and an expanding funds and asset management division. The firm now has over 540 employees, in 20 offices throughout Australia including Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Darwin.

Patersons has over 248,000 clients, with over 96,000 CHESS sponsored clients totalling some $11.5 billion and Funds Under Administration and Management of in excess of $1.6 billion.

Patersons has ranked #1 by number of equity issues in Australia every year since 2003 by reference to Thomson Reuters League Tables, and raised over $1 billion of new capital for a wide range of companies during 2010.

It ranks #5 for Equity Capital Markets and #9 as the Best Investment Bank in Australia by reference to the 2010 East Coles Survey.