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Gulf & Australia
Australia Builds the Engine. The Gulf Can Build the Road.
Australian technology is often described as having a funding problem. More often, it has a geography problem. The Gulf now offers capital with intent, but it rewards companies that arrive with a strategy before they arrive with a licence.
Technology Commercialisation
Investors Do Not Buy Ideas. They Buy Title Deeds.
Founders describe their IP by what it does. Investors judge it by who owns it, how well it can be defended and whether it can become revenue. Most deals are won or lost in the space between those two descriptions.
Capital & Investment
The Gulf's Clean Energy Story Has Left the Rehearsal Room
For years, the Gulf's clean energy story was performed in rehearsal: strategies, targets and announcements. In 2027 the audience will want the performance. The opportunities belong to those who understand policy, infrastructure, certification and trust.
The book
Money Has a Family Name
A founder’s journey of capital, trust and building across borders
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- Ryan Babbage
Money Has a Family Name is Ryan Babbage’s account of a founder’s journey of capital, trust and building across borders. Written from the founder’s side of the table, it is about how trust and capital travel together – and why, in the Gulf, the relationship comes before the deal.
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- OceanMerge® – IFZA, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
- OceanBlocks – Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)
- Stacked Up – We Are Stacked Up Pty Ltd, Australia
Credentials
- RMIT MBA (International Business), with Distinction
- RMIT Master of Blockchain Enabled Business, with Distinction
- HBS Online, Sustainable Business Strategy (2022)
- Director, EIBC Ltd, 2018–2021
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