Queensland government appoints Blue Sky founder Mark Sowerby as the state’s first ever chief entrepreneur

The Queensland government has appointed Blue Sky Alternative Investments founder Mark Sowerby as the inaugural chief entrepreneur to oversee the state’s Advance Queensland program.

With ambitions to replicate the success of major startup ecosystems like Israel, Sowerby says the chief entrepreneur’s role will be to oversee all startup and entrepreneurial-related projects run by Advance Queensland.

“The state government’s thinking about this, to have a chief entrepreneur from the private sector donating their time, is that you’ve got to have a really strong foundation and culture in force for that,” Sowerby tells StartupSmart.