Michael Bullen

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Michael has deep and broad experience in leadership, strategy development, innovation, organisational transformation, and implementation.  His professional career has focused on sustainability and how this underpins future business opportunities.

Michael has a strong track record in building relationships with stakeholders and partners, and the creation of innovative models to achieve these business outcomes.  He has proven ability to develop, coach and mentor staff and mobilise leadership teams to achieve significant outcomes.  This springs from an underpinning personal belief that the ability to build the capabilities of the individual and teams is one of the key leadership challenges that separates the best leaders.

Change is created through people, and it is only by engaging them can leaders build sustainable and enduring futures.

Michael has extensive Chief and Senior Executive experience in agriculture, commercial water, and forestry organisations.  Having operated in some of the most contested policy spaces for over twenty-five years he has developed the ability to advise and deliver outcomes in a complex, highly charged environment.

Michael’s most recent roles saw him establish the highly successful Global Ag Tech Ecosystem (GATE) in partnership with SparklabsCultiv8 at Orange, NSW and drive the AgriBusiness Precinct at the new Western Sydney Airport.  A significant innovation that put the Department of Primary Industries on the map of global innovation in agriculture.

The GATE commenced in 2019 and has seen over 100 business start-ups being taken through the programs with $200m in capital invested in the companies, the creation of 380 new jobs globally, and the companies being valued in excess of $700 million.

The AgriBusiness Precinct in Western Sydney will see the opportunities to build the capacity for fresh produce to travel from paddock to overseas plate within 24 hours, high tech production systems, and a world leading Ag and Food research and education hub established.

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING:

  • Bachelor of Science (Forestry)

  • Master of Business Administration

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS & MEMBERSHIPS:

  • Board member Cemeteries and Crematoria NSW