Build it. Substantiate it. Govern it.
I’m a computer scientist and awarded inventor, formerly of IBM Research Australia, now founder and CEO of an Australian fintech. I put that research and executive experience to work in three ways: advising boards and committees, substantiating R&D for Australia’s R&D Tax Incentive, and building proprietary technology from first principles.
Board & committee advisory
Industry advisory roles in higher education, ICT policy and reporting standards. Focus: AI and data governance, and future readiness.
02 · SubstantiateR&D technical advisory
Independent, PhD-level assessment of software-intensive R&DTI claims, backed by a first-hand audit record.
03 · BuildFounder & CEO, LENSELL
Strategy, mathematical modelling and architecture behind a research-driven portfolio optimisation platform.
Board & committee advisory on AI governance and innovation
Advisory board and committee experience across higher education, the ICT profession and international standards-setting. My focus is AI and data governance, and helping boards navigate risk while seeing where genuine innovation opportunity sits.
CS&IT Industry Advisory Board Member
- Advice on course design, future readiness and industry skill needs
- Input to academic review, accreditation and research impact
- Certificate of Recognition from the Head of School
Industry Expert, Course Advisory Committee
- Curriculum advice on structure and content
- Review of teaching and assessment methodology
- Benchmarking against comparable university, TAFE and private HEP courses
Data Sharing Committee Member
- Contributed to data sharing policy work
- Contributed to government submissions and data-exchange standardisation
Domain Steering Committee Member
- Contribution to, and oversight of, development of the XBRL business-reporting standard
R&D Tax Incentive technical advisory for software and AI
Many software R&D Tax Incentive (R&DTI) claims fail not because the work isn’t innovative, but because the technical narrative doesn’t hold up under AusIndustry scrutiny. I’ve been through that process directly, with an Advance Finding for 2022–2025 on LENSELL’s own proprietary method.
R&D Tax Incentive eligibility assessment
- Pre-lodgement technical eligibility review
- Narrative review for software and algorithm-based claims
Technical expert support for consultants
- Technical narrative review and experimental design framing
- Independent subcontractor; your firm keeps the client relationship
Novelty & Prior Art Assessment
- Benchmarking against patents and peer-reviewed literature
- Written evidence for the “new knowledge” test
Fintech founder & CEO, LENSELL Group
An Australian fintech running a research-driven investment research and portfolio optimisation platform. I lead end-to-end technical strategy, mathematical modelling and core software architecture.
Diversiview
- Built on the proprietary Dual-Objective Optimisation Approach (DOOA)
- Formal AusIndustry R&D Advance Finding, 2022–2025
Leadership & standing
- Member of FinTech Australia and Australian Fintech
- Finalist, Australian Women in Wealth Awards, 2026
- Corporate Authorised Representative of Foresight Analytics & Ratings Pty Ltd (AFSL 494552)
What I’m asked about
Topics where I can offer a practitioner’s view, drawn from research, executive and governance work.
AI and data governance
How boards can see where AI and data are actually used, and weigh the risks and rewards.
Innovation beyond LLMs
Where defensible advantage sits as LLM adoption becomes commoditised: proprietary algorithms, optimisation methods, data architecture and domain-specific modelling.
R&D versus routine development
Telling experimental software work from routine development, and building a technical narrative that holds up to AusIndustry scrutiny.
Evidencing novelty
Benchmarking technology against patents and peer-reviewed literature to show genuine new knowledge.
Future-ready skills
What industry needs from computing graduates, and how course design and accreditation can keep pace.
Data standards and sharing
Data exchange, business reporting standards such as XBRL, and policy submissions to government.
Research, then enterprise, then governance
- 2026 – CURRENTChisholm Course Advisory Committee · Industry Expert
- 2023 – CURRENTLa Trobe CS&IT Industry Advisory Board
- 2020 – CURRENTLENSELL Group · Founder and CEO
- 2021 – 2022Australian Computer Society · Data Sharing Committee
- 2018 – 2020XBRL US · Domain Steering Committee
- 2012 – 2019IBM Research Australia · Advisory Software Engineer and Team Lead. Projects in financial services, bioinformatics and emergency management; led the Innovation Team (2015–2017).
- Invention Achievement Award, Second Plateau (2017)
- Eminence & Excellence Award (2016)
- Invention Achievement Award, First Plateau (2016)
- Invention Development Team Award (2016)
- Outstanding Contribution Award (2012)
- 2004 – 2011Early career · Lecturer at Monash and La Trobe; Development Team Lead at Computershare; Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Air Services Australia
Qualifications: PhD Computer Science (La Trobe, 2009) · Executive Certificate in Business Valuation (NYU Stern, 2024) · ASIC RG146 Tier 1 (2025) · Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (2018) · Master of Quantitative Economics (Bucharest, 1997) · Bachelor of Economic Computer Science (Bucharest, 1996)
How can I help?
Prefer webmail? ceo@lensellgroup.com · Copy