Our Experience

Our principal, Mark Hender, is an experienced senior manager and Director who has been involved with Defence and technology-based companies for over 25 years. He has a broad range of experience at a senior management level including roles in the areas of strategy, business development, commercial management and business operations that led to roles as General Manager and Managing Director with full P&L responsibility. His experience as a Director includes companies from a diverse range of technologies spanning the life sciences and physical sciences. He has been involved in raising capital for technology-based companies, both by securing venture capital and by leveraging grant funding, and in the sale of companies to venture capital and private company investors.

Mark is a Rhodes Scholar from Victoria and holds a Master of Philosophy (Management) from Oxford University and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Hons) from the University of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Previous Management Roles

  • Director, Operational Excellence Programme, Chemring Group
  • Managing Director, Chemring Australia
  • General Manager, Texton Systems Australia/Aerosonde
  • Managing Director, ITEK
  • Executive Director, Business Development, University of South Australia
  • General Manager, Land Systems & Support Division, Tenix Defence Systems
  • Commercial Director, British Aerospace Australia
  • General Manager, Business Operations & Planning, AWA Defence Industries
  • General Manager, Sales & Marketing, AWA Defence Industries

Previous Non-Executive Director Appointments