Luceille Outhred
Director Research & Development
M Ed St, M Dist Ed; Ad Dip HRD Mgt; Dip T, Dip Trg & Ass
Luceille is responsible for the Intellectual Property Portfolio and Research and Development Management of the Spinergy and VortaVolt inline turbine generators. She is responsible for the branding of “Spinergy”, “HydroSpinergy”, “VortaVolt”, “Pipe Power” and “Pico Power Generator”.
She is also a Designated Inventor on the Digismart Swap®, Digismart® and Digivision® patents held by Digislide Holdings Ltd. She has worked on secondment to Digislide since 1998, assisting in the embryonic stages of the commercialisation of that company’s core technologies, and was responsible for establishing the corporation, capital raising, technical risk management for research and development and product design and development of MantaRay®, Digiscope™ and the Digismart® Miniature Projection Technologies.
Luceille has had extensive start up and business development experience, having spent 13 years as Corporate Leader of the Workright Group, which is involved in Education, Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship. Her strategic leadership has resulted in the establishment of a number of global relationships and off-shore franchise operations on behalf of the Workright Group.
Luceille was designated as a member of the Southern Area Sports Complex Management Team by the South Australian Parliament. In 2000, she was selected as a finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year (SA) award; and, in 2007, she was again selected as a finalist in the Telstra awards; this time in two categories: i.e. the Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award, and the Australian Government Business Innovation Award.