Meet the team
The people running Sportstech Tasmania.
Leadership
Dr Mike Briers AO
Chair
Dr Mike Briers AO is Co-Founder and Chair of Sportstech Tasmania. A sixth-generation Tasmanian, he returned to Hobart after 35 years in Sydney building public and private sector collaborations and the companies that grow from them. He founded financial data business RoZetta Technology, was a founding director of agtech company The Yield, co-founded the Capital Markets CRC, was founding CEO of the Food Agility CRC, and established the national research facilities SIRCA and Intersect Australia.
He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of ICT at the University of Tasmania. In 2016 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to finance and digital technology, higher education and judo.
Chris Jackson
Director
Chris Jackson believes sport could be Tasmania's most underused platform for innovation. As co-founder of Sportstech Tasmania, he brings tech companies, researchers, government and sporting bodies together to solve problems and build new industry.
He leads national tech company Data#3's Tasmanian business as State Manager and sits on the TasICT executive, drawing on 20 years in technology with Telstra, Fortinet, The Project Lab and Intuit Technologies.
As Vice President of SFL Tasmania, he's helped lift women's participation towards parity and coached senior women's and rep teams. He co-founded Gridiron Tasmania, served on the Gridiron Australia board, and managed the Australian Outback under 19 team at the 2016 World Cup.
Chris holds an MBA in Sports Management from Torrens University and Real Madrid Graduate School, and is a Non-Executive Director of Cancer Council Tasmania.
Team
Taylah Stewart
Product & Delivery Lead
Bio coming soon.
Tim Downey
Front End Lead
Tim leads front-end work at Sportstech Tasmania and worked on Island Intelligence. Tim sees data and information as the key to improvement in every area of life.
A recent Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology graduate from the University of Tasmania, Tim also works as an ICU nurse manager. He spent most of his nursing career in New South Wales before moving back to Tasmania, drawn by the potential he sees in the state. Outside work he has a keen interest in photography and web design.
John Streat
Backend Engineer
Bio coming soon.
Marcos Gogolin
XR/VR Lead
Bio coming soon.
Han Zhang
Home Ground Assistant
Bio coming soon.