Monday, 26 October, 2015 - 15:14
TEDxPerth – an eclectic menu of brain food
No-one need be disappointed when TEDx comes to town next month, despite tickets for this year’s event selling out within hours of their release.
Hamish Jolly
Co-Founder, Executive Chair / Delorean Corporation
A qualified Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Business majoring in both Business Law and Accounting, Hamish Jolly is a co-founder and executive chair of Delorean Corporation, an integrated group of companies focused on the renewable bioenergy market.
At age 37, Mr Jolly was the youngest director of strategy and ventures at BankWest, responsible for group mergers, acquisitions, interventions and divestments as well as group strategic planning. His commercial experience is diverse and he has significant achievements in the international aid and development sector, managing projects for SAGRIC International, AusAid, World Bank and other and other global development banks in the Asia Pacific region.
He also co-founded start-up Internet consultancy business BizEPlanet during the early days of the technology boom. He successfully sold it to Xpedior Inc prior to listing on the Nasdaq.
In 2013, he gave a TEDxPerth talk on 'shark suit deterrent wet suits' which has since garnered over 2 million views on TED.com website.
