Roger La Salle
Syndicates 92 & 93

Chairman since:
2010

Current Executive / Board positions:
Director, Rudders RLS Pty Ltd trading as La Salle Matrix Thinking
Director and past CEO, INNOVIC
Past Director, HPM Technologies
Past Director, Jumping - Shanghai
Director-elect, Perth-based publicly listed company
Past Chair of Innovation, The Queens University (Belfast)

Memberships:
Family Business Association
Melbourne Cricket Club
Kew Golf Club

Achievements:
Roger La Salle is a professional engineer (electronics) and also has formal business qualifications. He is the creator of the Matrix Thinking™ technique and widely sought after as an international speaker on Innovation, Opportunity and Business Development.

He is the author of four books, Director and former CEO of the Innovation Centre of Victoria (INNOVIC), as well as a number of companies both in Australia and overseas.

He has been responsible for a number of successful technology start-ups and in 2004 was a regular panelist on the ABC New Inventors television program. In 2005 he was appointed to the Chair of Innovation at the Queens University in Belfast.

Matrix Thinking™ is now used in more than 26 countries.

Best advice ever received:

Learn to listen.