MIKE HIRSHORN - Director
Four Hats Capital
Mike has a 30 year career of founding, building, managing and investing in technology
companies. These include Cochlear in which he was a founder and CEO and Resmed
in which he was a founding Director. These two companies have a combined market
cap over $4 billion. Mike is a leader in the Australian life science industry.
Mike has significant international management expertise in all operational areas
from manufacturing to research and development, intellectual property, worldwide
marketing and sales, regulatory affairs, government relations, business development
and developing strategic alliances with major multinationals.
Mike has over eight years of private equity experience. As a private equity investor,
Mike has raised a fund, invested in companies, played a hands on role in their
growth and achieved exits and IPOs. Mike has been a director on the board of
many companies including six portfolio companies. His current directorships include
Dynamic Hearing and TGR BioSciences.
In 1988 he won BRW Businessman of the Year (Technology) for establishing Cochlear
in the US Europe and Japan and in 2004 Mike was awarded an Order of Australia
Medal for his work in commercialising medical technology.
