Consulting Services

Geoffrey provides a wide range of services to the food industry such as:

Skills and experience to fit your project and build your business

linkage of suitable enabling science and technology tools with business imperatives, opportunities and objectives
Ability to negotiate and broker a deal, including a number of half million-dollar plus research contracts, and several multi-million-dollar technology license agreements, both in Australia and overseas
Ability to plan and draft successful funding proposals and to successfully attract considerable external funding
Ability to successfully commercialise R&D outcomes
Strategic and operational planning
Experience in the protection and exploitation of intellectual property (IP), and management of a patent portfolio
Facilitation and development of collaborative research projects and programs
Facilitation and development of long-term strategic relationships with food companies and related organizations
Experience in and leadership of market-driven food processing and ingredient research
Ability to plan appropriate research programs with industry-relevant outcomes
Identification and troubleshooting of food processing systems
Identification and evaluation of new technologies, many from outside the food industry, with potential applicability in food processing
Ability to work with small companies and large multinationals, and to deliver results
Experience in authorship of scientific articles, patent applications and review chapters in the areas of food and dairy processing and ingredients
Experience in speaking at national and international science and industry conferences