Dan Johnson, Managing Director at The Australian Wine Research Institute
Dan has been instrumental in driving various initiatives in the Australian grape and wine research and development community.
Dan Johnson has been the Managing Director of The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) since December 2011. Dan obtained a BSc(Hons) and PhD in chemistry at Flinders University, and an MBA at the University of Adelaide. Prior to this current role, Dan spent five years as the AWRI’s General Manager – Business Development, where he was responsible for strategy, operations management, and commercial affairs.
A participant in the Australian wine industry Future Leader’s program, Dan has been instrumental in driving various initiatives in the Australian grape and wine research and development community. In addition, Dan has been actively involved in the formation of the Wine Innovation Cluster on the Waite Precinct, in the activities of the Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference and in AWRI’s move into the scientific disciplines of metabolomics and bioinformatics. In total, Dan has been directly involved in raising and/or administering more than $150 million for research institutes, start-up companies and venture capital firms and been directly involved in 9 biotechnology start-up companies.
Dan is a presenter at the
‘Mythbusting - Australia’s regions, sites, innovations, quality, diversity and characters’ business session.
