Jason Herbert

Jason Herbert

Customer Navigator

Navigation

A pragmatic enabler for deep tech commercialisation

My experience and skill sets are found in commercialising deeptech. As such, I enjoy being part of the navigation team and assisting customers in their engagements with Callaghan Innovation. In my role, I bring an understanding of balancing the needs of R&D teams with the needs of business. In addition, I understand the symbiotic nature of pressing forward with multiple activities for which there’s no neat GANTT chart. This enables me to be a pragmatic pathfinder.

Identifying and securing the world’s first bio-refinery in Sydney while working for Mint Innovation was a very proud moment. I navigated the facility through a complex regulatory process which ended with sign off from multiple parties without any holdups.

I enjoy representing customers as a trusted resource and caretaker of their voices and opinions. This enables me to stimulate Callaghan Innovation to be the very best we can be across the whole organisation. We could be an amazing force for good.

Areas of expertise
  • Regulatory Pathway/ Site Selection for complex industrial processes
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Deeptech scale up
  • Mediation between scientific needs and business needs
  • Narrative / story telling
  • Networking
  • Business Development
Education
  • MSc BioScience Enterprise, The University of Auckland, 2017
  • BA, Sociology, University of California, San Diego 2010 
  • BA, Psychology, University of California, San Diego, 2010
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