Van Wensveen worked in commercialisation at Austrialian government research organisation CSIRO for more more than three years before joining the ventures fund.
Cherie van Wensveen, a former commercialisation manager at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, has joined Australian university spinout investment fund Uniseed as its technology investment manager.
Van Wensveen takes over the investment role from Paul Butler, who managed investments for Uniseed for more than eight years.
Uniseed is a venture fund that invests in spinouts from several Australian universities which are also investors in the fund. Academic research institution partners include the universities of Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland and Monash.
CSIRO is also a partner in the fund and van Wensveen was the government lab’s representative on Uniseed’s technology investment committee.
Van Wensveen was a principal of innovation partnerships at mining company BHP and a technology development manager at Australian engineering and consulting firm Hatch.
