Alex Blauensteiner
Director - Industry Collaboration
Alex has spent 15 years working in industry focused innovation and economic development roles. He spent his initial working years in the early and mid 1990s in technology start-ups within the ICT industry.He successfully co-founded and grew an online marketing business in the late 90s, then went on to assist another listed Australian technology business to commercialise its technology in Australia and the US, spending time establishing their business presence in Silicon Valley.
In 2001 Alex joined AusIndustry to pursue his joint passions of economic development and innovation.This role saw him working side-by-side with industry to assist them accessing Commonwealth Govt innovation and commercialisation support programs.Since 2005 Alex has seeded, developed and managed the Australian Institute for Commercialisation’s national TechFast program, which assists industry and technology developers across Australia to connect and collaborate to solve industry problems and commercialise innovative new technologies.
Alex holds a Bachelor of Business (University of Queensland) and a Masters of Management in Industry Policy (Australian National University).
