Vlado Baban is an experienced start-up and scale-up adviser with 2 decades of experience helping early-stage businesses and special interest groups in grant programs. 

His expertise includes: 

• embedding R&D and design thinking into start-up and scale-up ecosystems
• user experience pain-point mapping
• technology readiness level launch mapping
• productisation phasing from minimum viable product to full launch
• defining first-customer avatars
• market segmentation analysis
• accessing new capital markets.

From 2008 to 2023 Vlado has given advisory services to many Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) programs. Throughout this time, he has worked with many early-stage businesses that have scaled up. He has also worked with mature large organisations focused on disrupting their incumbent out-dated business models. 

He holds a: 

• Bachelor of Engineering, RMIT University
• MBA, Swinburne University
• Dynamic Managerial Capability, University of Technology

He has also completed the 67 Soft Competencies through Korn Ferry and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Vlado is a native of Victoria and long-term resident of Geelong.