Callum Benson

Callum is passionate about innovation and building great companies. He has broad experience across technology sectors and stages, developing commercialisation strategies, spinning out companies and securing investment needed to take technologies to market.

After his PhD he jumped into startups and commercialisation in the UK, before moving to Australia in 2021. He leads the New Ventures team at Monash who work in the system and on the system, with new and existing spinouts as well as initiatives to support and invest in them. His team manages the new $15m Monash Pre Seed Fund and Monash’s equity portfolio of 30+ companies.