Dr Leong Mar has over 20 years of technical and commercial experience from research organisations, technology companies, and one of the world’s iconic science corporations.
Dr Mar was the commercialisation director for the Missions Program at CSIRO, and an investment committee member of Uniseed Investments. Prior to that, Dr Mar was with global science corporation DuPont for 10 years, serving in a number of roles including as manager of the Australia and New Zealand Technology Centre, leader of the corporate business growth and innovation teams, a member of the country leadership team, and led the development and commercialisation of technology solutions including multi-industry award winning solutions for the mining sector.
Dr Mar is a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, and an Honorary Senior Fellow at University of Melbourne.