
It All Comes Back to the People
Graeme Fielder is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Spark - The University of Auckland’s Entrepreneurship Challenge. In addition, Graeme is undertaking his PhD in breast cancer biology at the Liggins Institute, UoA. Over his time spent at the UoA he has been part of creating an entrepreneurial culture and mindset among students, particularly young bioscientists. In that respect he has served as a executive member of Chiasma, a student-led organisation that fosters entrepreneurship in biotechnology, career and professional development and linking of the student community to the local NZ bioindustry with the goal of producing a new generation of innovative, commercially – aware and workforce enabled scientists. Graeme has a B.Tech(Biotech.)(Honours) from the UoA and is a graduate of Stanford University’s GSB Summer Institute of Entrepreneurship programme.