Bruce’s career has been built in business, innovation investment and technology development fields.  He has focused on the advancement and commercialisation of technologies (particularly new energy technologies – renewable, enabling and low emission fossil), investment readiness of products and companies, and innovation policy and programs.

A Fellow of the Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), he is a Director and Vice-President Diversity of the Academy as well as Chair of ATSE’s Energy Forum. He has chaired Expert Working Groups for the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) on Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility (2015) and on Energy Storage (2017).