CORE Start: Meet the Mentors
CORE Start is a 3 month entrepreneurial mentorship program aimed at helping founders to effectively scale their business.
Along with group mentoring sessions, business masterclasses with entrepreneurs, pitch training and the opportunity to further develop their MVP, entrepreneurs get partnered with an industry mentor to work with one-on-one throughout the program.
Using their industry experience and previous experiences as entrepreneurs themselves, our mentors will work closely with founders to help them identify opportunities, refine product or service offerings or gain further insight into the current market and understand where and how their products can solve problems within the industry.
Meet the Mentors
Jasmin Ward
Jasmin is a Startup & Innovation Facilitator and Entrepreneur. In 2016, Jasmin founded Cribber - Software as a Service web and mobile application with clients in oil & gas, renewable energy and construction sectors. The application enabled effective communication between employers and employees on remote work sites. With real-time feedback analytics, employers could monitor and track workforce communication and engagement trends.
Jasmin has gone on to lead and facilitate innovation through a number of consulting, facilitation and lecturing roles with The University of Western Australia and Plus Eight. Currently working for The Growth Group, Jasmin is able to apply her hands on experience to this innovation consulting company with a growing team of designers, innovators, systems thinkers and behavioural scientists to help organisations to solve problems and deliver new products.
Nick currently holds a number of roles including CEO of SaaS business, Grow Impact, Managing Director of Opaxe, Mentor at UWA and Ambassador for University of Warwick Business School. With significant international experience in corporate, SME and start-up companies, Nick knows a thing or two about scaling businesses.
Nick brings with him a diverse background that includes management and leadership roles across wide-ranging industries, including mining, pharmaceuticals, consulting and digital media. He is a results driven executive with a proven track record in growing businesses and building high-performing teams. He has experience is strategy, raising funds as well as sales and product development.
Bill Withers
Bills’ passion is in the area of organizational sustainability. He believes by fostering environments that connect capable people to optimise collaboration and excellence can follow. Bill is the founder of ADAPT by Design, a SaaS platform designed to help SME’s build resilient businesses by helping companies to deliver on their aspirations and deal with business challenges and harness their advantage.
Bill previously founded acQuire in 1996 and successfully exited the market more than 15 years later, in 2018. Bill’s experience in building acQuire lead him to found ADAPT by Design and continue to help build strong and resilient businesses.
CORE Start has been supported by Oracle, For Blue, City of Cockburn and The West Australian Department for Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation in 2022.
Find out more about CORE Start and how you can register for Round 2 2022 here.