Our Team
Brodie McCulloch
Director
As a Director of CORE and Founder of Spacecubed, Brodie subscribes to the ethos that the best way to encourage innovation is to create a strong community of engaged startups, established professionals, and industry.
Zane Prickett
Director
With an extensive working background, Zane brings a wealth of knowledge coupled with his previous experience as a serial entrepreneur in the resources sector. He has a keen understanding of how to effectively scale businesses.
Tamryn Barker
Co-Founder and CORE Skills Lead
Tamryn co-founded CORE with a vision to build culture, capability, and community in the energy and resources sectors. A highly experienced strategist, Tamryn has experience with startups, innovators, governments, and industry. Through the CORE Skills program, Tamryn is helping to build data science capability for executives and professionals.
Renee Hakendorf
National Innovation Hub Lead
Renee is passionate about creating thriving business communities, enabled by innovation and the collective experience of our mentors, coaches and advisors.
Based at our Adelaide Innovation Hub, Renee’s diverse role sees her manage and run the day-to-day operations of CORE Innovation Hub while driving connection, collaboration and innovation across the industry.
Renu Kannu
Business Partnerships Lead
Renu is responsible for fostering a thriving business community in Perth and across the broader ecosystem. With more than 7 years experience in project management, market research, stakeholder engagement, strategic partnerships, and digital marketing, Renu knows the power of connection.
Kate Spencer
Perth Innovation Hub Lead
Kate has a diverse background in operations, business development and community building across a variety of sectors. Her passion lies in making meaningful connections, and she has recently spent six years living in Abu Dhabi where she assisted Australian’s doing business in the UAE to forge new opportunities and networks.
Natalie Jones
Newman Innovation Hub Lead
Natalie has an extensive background in operations, logistics management and project management across the UK and Australia, as well as marketing experience in Newman, WA.
With her impressive background, Nat will be leading the charge on regional projects and the establishment of our Newman Innovation Hub in partnership with BHP.
Libby McMichael
Marketing & Communications Lead
Based in our Adelaide office with more than 10 years experience in Marketing and Communications, Libby serves as ambassador of the CORE brand and stakeholders and ensures the success of activities, events, partnerships and programs are amplified to the right audiences at the right time.
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