Meet the Mentors: CORE Start Round 2
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.
Alex Bertram
Alex Bertram is a proud father of two, entrepreneur and technologist and until recently was also the Digital Transformation lead for BHP’s South Flank Operations, which will account for approximately a third of BHP’s iron ore production once ramped up to full capacity.
Alex brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his mentoring role with CORE Start, with a well-rounded understanding of the business of mining.
He held a variety of roles at BHP working with teams in a diverse range of fields; from investment evaluation to construction, from prefeasibility studies to equipment autonomy, technology development to portfolio management, from project delivery to product management to name a few.
Alex is also the co-inventor and product owner for the patented Dash Maintainer Tools which allows front line personnel to securely collect data from machinery remotely, avoiding the potential risks associated with manually checking dials or taking readings from heavy mobile equipment such as trucks, excavators, drills and ‘dozers.
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.