Carissa has 13 years experience in commercialisation and innovation and holds a Bachelor of Biotechnology (Medical) with first class Honours, a Master of Business (Commercialising Science and Technology), and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance and Risk Management. She has both executive and project management experience in commercialisation and innovation. In a previous Executive Management position, she managed a national team of 10 staff that created $39M of research projects, managed a $3M per annum contract, won $7M in contracts and helped scale the company from 12 to 35 staff.