Ideation and invention is the start of the journey but there is so much more going into bringing a business and a medtech to life. Where you start matters but Maryam stories is a tell tale about how to be at the right place at the right time and engage with the right stakeholders. Tune in for dr. Maryam Parviz is the co-founder and CEO of SDIP innovations, a medtech company which technology is a bioresorbable implant which promises to prevent multiple surgeries for patients, cut down on theatre time for surgeons and all that for a fraction of the cost of existing products.   She tell ..read more

Like any kids, Cassie Leonard wanted to go into space and so she studied aerospace engineering ( at UCLA, mind you) What if you turned up on your first day and was the only woman in a room of 35 engineers? Maybe quite daunting. But it did not stop Cassie from spending 16 years at Boeing! And You know what's great in accumulating 16 years of corporate experience in the biggest aerospace company in the world? You get to explore a lot of possibilities and growth to your own pace! After a lot of technical jumps, she started her leadership journey and led very large complex teams. She now ..read more

This time, we are talking neurodivergence with Dr. Lorien Parker, aka Dr. Loz. Lorien is the founder of SciencePlay Kids, a company she founded 9 years ago for ALL BRAINS and ALL learners type to engage with Science and learn. And she did so with zero prior experience in business or education but she jumped right in the deep end and followed her passion for science to help neurodivergent learners and she knows all about it because she has ADHD and is autistic herself and the mother of neurodivergent kids. Lorien is the one of many women who left academia after having kids because aca ..read more

That's a wrap up for Multiple Hats and 2023! What a great ride we had with our amazing founders sharing their journey and what it takes to be an entrepreneur, call it success and sometimes, call it quit! Thank you for lending me your ears and coming along with me on this journey of entrepreneurship! Let's make Multiple Hats a conversation and tell me what you think or what you want for next year.  This episode is a word of me, your host, Angelique, and what prompted me to launch Multiple Hats. it is an episode to connect with you and hear from you. Multiple Hats is all about you and how ..read more

  Alison Gartner, the co-founder of Evidently, an Australian Start-up whose technology can analyse complex health care data to guide clinicians in their practice. This is a holy grail in healthcare data because we are now generating more data than ever, and we don’t tap into the full potential of these so called "data lakes" due to the difficulty of standardising, cleaning and linking different data sets to produce actual actionable insights. And then who owns the data? With Evidentli, there is no exchange of data, the medical centre will use their own data and question it in their own wa ..read more

Have you ever thought of a brilliant idea as a rough gemstone? That's a what Natalie Chapman, the founder of Gemaker, thinks researchers and inventors have, a rough gem that needs a great deal of polishing before becoming an actual Gem. With a bachelor in chemistry, an MBA and a decade of marketing, communication and tech transfer experience, she decided that there was a better way to accelerate this process and founded Gemaker ! A successful commercialization agency, helping researchers and innovative businesses take their tech ideas to the people they can help. Gemaker has been in the busine ..read more

Deep Tech aspiring founders, this one is for you! Some people fall into their PhD, following the next logical step after their Honours or Masters. Some people fall into it because they are not sure what job to go after yet. Not Dharmica Mistry, she wanted to go into nutrition but didn't get in the course so instead of ruminating she picked subjects which were close to what it would have looked like in the nutrition degree and fell in love with microbiology in the process. After graduating she was not keen on a PhD either because she felt she could not see the impact of such work in a near futu ..read more

If you had many jobs in your field but somehow can't land on a single definition of yourself, you're not alone. You probably belong to the people who could thrive with a "portfolio career", that is a career which is not limited to one job or one stream of income but rather made of multiple pieces of yourself and all the hats that you can wear. That's definitely what Sue Pillans realised when after 10 years of employment, something did not feel quite right but then she went back to her roots and was able to combine the multiple pieces of her character puzzle into just the perfect career path ..read more

Have you ever felt like something was so natural to you, that you could do it better than what's done around you? That's how Viv Allen felt about marketing around lifesaving drugs. Viv began her career as a hospital pharmacist and her time roaming the wards seeing doctors using too complex of a language with patients inspired her to make patient information more accessible and easy to understand. But Young Viv did not imagine that her first steps in marketing would lead her to founding multiple businesses and sell one to a giant in the industry! This episode is her journey of founding Vivacity ..read more