Ben Sandhu

Industry Teaching Fellow

Ben Sandhu has advised startups and accelerators for a number of years in both the UK and Australia before joining Ida Sports as co-founder in 2018. He is passionate about using business as a force for social change, heading up RMIT’s LaunchHUB programme in 2020.

He was a semi-professional cricketer who deeply understands the athlete experience, helping Ida Sports land two lucrative contracts with some of the US's largest sports retailers. Ben helped build Ida from it's first prototype (the Frankenshoe) into a thriving company that has taken investment from the LA Dodgers, the Billie Jean King Foundation, Elysian Park Ventures and R/GA Ventures.