Accelerator Mentor Profile: Gavin Lee

 

 

 

 

Ga Vin Lee

Principal at Model Answer Commercial Intelligence

 

EXPERIENCE

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Having worked across the mining & resources, education and utilities sectors, Ga Vin provides strategic planning expertise, supporting businesses in areas that include:

  • Corporate Finance
  • Project/Opportunity Evaluation
  • Short to long term planning
  • Cost tracking and forecasting
  • Management reporting
  • Business improvement
  • Value driver analysis
  • Commercial due diligence

More specifically, he can assist entrepreneurs with:

  • Packaging up their business model
  • Financial modelling
  • Compiling business cases for their customers
  • Putting together financials for their pitches

MOTIVATION

Ga Vin enjoys helping startups to figure out whether or not their business model is going to work from a financial perspective, with the added benefit of having over a decade of resource industry experience.

Getting a sense of what is happening in the industry in terms of innovation, ideas and tech also motivates Ga Vin to be involved in the Accelerator Program.

GIVING BACK

Ga Vin finds it rewarding to be able to give back to the ecosystem; helping startups develop their business and hopefully seeing them become a success.

Mentoring is extremely interesting and he views it as a good learning experience for both parties.

SUCCESS STORY

Ga Vin mentored the team at Newton Labs in 2015, assisting them with the development of their business cases.

They went on to become the first graduates of Unearthed’s Accelerator Program, won the WA Innovator of the Year Award and are currently delivering a large bolder detection product to their first customers on hard rock mines in Western Australia.

 

For more information on how Unearthed can help you get access to amazing industry mentors like Ga Vin, visit our Accelerator Program page.