Jason Bresnehan
Managing Director
Jason Bresnehan, 39, founded Jason Bresnehan & Company in 1993. The firm undertook corporate advisory and business consulting roles building a client base within Tasmania and Queensland. In 1995, Jason partnered with the now late Peter Purtell and the firm traded has Noble House Tasmania, in an alliance with Melbourne based Noble House Securities and undertook corporate advisory and capital raising for early stage technology companies, property development companies and south east Asian companies establishing operations within Australia.
Peter Purtell was a pioneer of investment banking in Australia and as Treasurer of one of Australia’s earliest investment banks Australia Bank he traded Australia’s first Australia dollar on the day it floated in December 1983. Peter passed away in April 1999, and the firm changed its name back to Jason Bresnehan & Company and commenced contracting to Momentum Ventures, a $30 million early stage technology venture capital firm based in Melbourne.
At Momentum Ventures Jason performed the full cycle of venture of capital investing including deal identification, preliminary assessment, due diligence, legals, domestic and international business development and partnering, board directorships, series A capital raisings, series B capital raisings and exits.
Jason also acted as CEO of one of Momentum’s investees - Biovend, a company commercialising robotic dispensing technology for biological reagents and chemicals. At Momentum Jason worked across the sectors of biotech, digital post production equipment, building electronics, supply chain software, drug development and polymer recycling.
Jason’s current business consulting projects can be seen here.
Prior to founding Jason Bresnehan & Company, Jason trained for three and hand half years as an accountant at KPMG Launceston working in private business services, taxation and insolvencies and reconstructions.
Jason Bresnehan is also the author of the Pursuit of Luck, a blog, soon to be a book. The Pursuit of Luck is not about chance, it’s about methods to change your behaviors and get lucky in life, your projects, your endeavors and in business.
Jason holds a Bachelors degree in Business from the University of Tasmania and is a Senior Associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.