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David Martin
About David
David is Ai Group's Director of Emerging Industries and Innovation. David has been part of Australia’s Innovation Ecosystem for over twenty years and has worked at the executive level across multiple industries including large and small organisations to facilitate innovative solutions to complex and wicked problems.
David has maximised opportunities for Australian industry in $88 billion dollars of major projects, delivered financial assistance of over $22 million dollars to innovative SME's and pulled together over 150 commercially astute bleeding edge research/industry collaborations that have resulted in novel technology and jobs of the future.
David is also a Non-Executive Director and/or Industry Representative on the following bodies.
- NED Director - Police Veterans QLD
- Director - ARC Research Hub for Australian Steel
- Industry Engagement Advisory Committee – Astronomy Australia
- Industry Representative - R&D Tax Incentive Roundtable - DIISR
- Industry Representative - HERC IP Framework Advisory Committee
- Secretary - Emerging Industries Council
In his personal life, David is a crowdfunding tragic, thwarted blacksmith and doting dad to two Dachshund Jack Russell crosses.
