Success Stories

1999 Workshop participants Dan and Suzie Maher are owner-managers of Affirmations, a successful export business based in Bellingen, NSW. Affirmations publishes inspirational greeting cards and stationery.

Since completing the Workshop program in 1996, Neil Anderson founded CathRx, now an ASX publicly listed medical device company. Neil led the company through a venture capital funding round in 2003 and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2005. Today CathRx has a market capitalisation of over $70 million and employs more than 30 people.

Ian and Jeanette Crafter, Atlex Stockyards, participated in the Workshop in 1995. Atlex designs, manufactures and installs livestock handling systems at feedlots, abattoirs and saleyards around Australia.

Andrew McDonald Shoes specialises in manufacturing boutique and custom made shoes. With an expanding business, Andrew entered the Workshop in 2002 to analyse his business and find the best way to move forward.

Andrew Cameron, Director Product Development, ResMed Ltd - sponsors of the NSW Enterprise Workshop - is a great supporter of the Workshop Program.

LX Innovations is a contract electronics design company, specialising in the design of embedded systems and wireless technologies. Simon Blyth, a participant in the 2004 NSW Enterprise Workshop leads the company.

2003 Workshop participant and UNSW Associate Professor Graham Bell is transforming laboratory results into a successful technology business. His company, E-Nose Pty Ltd, specialises in developing industry-specific devices for continuous monitoring of airborne chemicals in real-time.