Stephen Schmid

High Growth Accelerator Facilitator / Growth Facilitator - ICT, Digital and Professional Services

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0417 835 627

Steve is a Business Advisor and Consultant with broad experience across a number of industry sectors and business disciplines.

Steve has been a business owner in South Australia and took his business product from concept, intellectual property protection, and multiple rounds of venture capital to full commercialisation, and therefore understands the priorities for technology start-ups and SMEs.

Steve has also has senior leadership responsibilities with large organisations and governments nationally.

Steve has consulted extensively throughout the Asia Pacific on the mechanics of leveraging technologies to increase the sustainability, resilience and effectiveness of an organisation’s operation.

Steve is an experienced process improvement, program management and organisational design consultant who has a solid academic foundation behind his work, achieving a Master’s Degree of Science from Carnegie Mellon University and he is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Steve can provide holistic advice for companies looking at options to grow their business and explore opportunities that will have a positive influence not only on the balance sheet but its people and processes.

As a International Technology Consultant, Steve was invited by the US Department of State to speak about digital platforms to relevant technology experts as part of the APEC Forum in 2011.

Steve also engaged with the European Commission (EC) which led to a memorandum of Understanding (for technology sharing and collaboration) between the EC and government jurisdictions across Australia and New Zealand.

Steve was invited by the Vietnamese Government to lead multiple rounds of consultation with both public and private entities in its three main commercial regions.