• Global Distribution Rights to Boutique Wineries Sold. (December 2007)
• Branding and Marketing Rights for Australia & New Zealand to 28 year old Global Brand with Recording, Hospitality & Merchandising Channels. (Pending)

G'day and welcome, I hope the following provides you with an understanding of who I am both personally and professionally and what it is I am looking for respectively can offer. If there is anything that is unclear please let me know so I can both change it and explain to you directly. My intention with this profile is pretty much to put it all 'out there' without façade or firewall; one risk in doing this is that, despite an effort to be clear and unambiguous, everything is open to interpretation and opinion. So if your initial response is to discount, discard and/or disconnect immediately, I would suggest that you contact me instead first, lest a valuable opportunity might be missed by us both. About Me I am an Australian born entrepreneur and have lived outside Australia for over 22 years although I recently returned 2006 with Pauline, my wife of 6+ years who was born in the Netherlands. We first met on Friday 13th March 1998, were engaged on Friday 13th October 2000 and were married on Friday 13th July, 2001. It should be clear that I am not superstitious. I speak, read and write English (please no jokes from the Brits) :-), Dutch & German and am currently learning Italian and Greek. My hobbies and interests are pretty much scattered throughout my fifty words; if you are thinking there is probably more then you are right but that is something for 1-2-1's and drinks down the pub.

My approach to building business (opportunities) is that each party brings something to the table. I am primarily interested in people who wish to engage and help to build something whilst accepting their own portion of the commercial risk that is involved. This can be in terms of time, materials and knowledge and/or financial participation. People who simply offer products and/or services in return for their next pay check can be good once projects have been established and there is either cash flow or one of the participants is providing the seed capital however, generally these people do not grab my attention as quickly as those with a more risk oriented approach. By the way, you can approach me on the same basis. If you want to close a deal, be sure that you have opened the door first.

Historically, my two industries have always been Hospitality and Business/Enterprise IT Management. I have been active, and have supported clients, in these for more than two decades. My past exploits also include producing events starting with "Internet 101 For Executives" back in 1993 (remember when NCSA Mosaic was this amazing browser, email was entirely text based and free of viruses, and average users would know how to use protocols like FTP, Gopher, and Veronica et al.... ah the good ole days!!) :-) ...oops I believe I am showing my age a little here. Over the years I have staged and produced a variety of events from Business Management Forums to Dance Parties in Germany, from IT Security Congresses to large scale "Meet the Winemaker Gala Dinners" in the Netherlands, and more recently I produced "The Secret of Action and Networking Days - The Sand", an event around The Law of Attraction, Social Networking and the most important ingredient of all, taking action!! The world premiere in Sydney was a resounding success with world class speakers such as Dr. John Demartini, Richard Hill, and Julian Campbell.

Right now!?!! my passion is GoChi®, the next generation of Himalayan Goji® Juice. It is a product and a company that does a lot of good for a lot of people, from both the wellness and wealth perspectives, and that is something that resonates strongly with me. This is also a business which finally let's my wife Pauline and I work more closely together as we have always wanted to do.

You may still always contact me for management consultancy opportunities in either hospitality or business/enterprise IT management, as our FreeLife business with GoChi® provides me the freedom to pursue activities I enjoy. If you want to hire me to consult in either of these areas, then both Australian (based) and international projects are equally interesting, and if your project is based overseas, or contains an international element, my international experience and network of contacts, especially in Europe and North America, are available to be deployed in full support of your venture. See my website for more info.

Alternatively, when you grow tired of the traditional business world, have decided that you don't want to be another 40 x 40 x 40 statistic, you feel there must be a better way but don't yet know what, and would like to be able to pick and choose consultancy roles you like because you enjoy them and don't need the income to sustain life, then talk to me about the business program with FreeLife. Pauline and I are looking for people who want freedom, and who we work with to help them create the financial independence that will provide that freedom, without it impacting on their ability to pursue their current job or activity, if that is what they want. Helping others achieve this is an investment in our time, and so we look for people who we believe have the ability to succeed in this business. To do otherwise would be a waste of everyone's time and money. If this sounds like you, email me and we will set up a time to talk and determine whether there is a fit between what you do and what we seek.

Whether you are in traditional business, Internet Marketing or the Direct Sales industry, if you find that your business is not performing to your expectations, give me a shout and let's see if I can help ***you*** to perform to your expectations.

My bottom line is this, I am about networking, about abundance for all and about creating positive fundamental sustainable change in people's lives. If you resonate with this, connect to me here and on the other networks where we share a presence.

My Key Strengths

Conceiving and developing business ventures.

Setup and incubation of new businesses, divisions or branches et al.

Negotiations (Partnerships, Joint Ventures, Vendor, Property, Services, General Contracts).

Organising and motivating groups/teams of people.

Entrepreneurial Aggression with Personal Power, Determination and Capability to Execute.

Enabling change

Asking for help

My Main Weaknesses:

Explaining what I do (but hopefully this is the start of effecting change). :-)

Spreading myself too thin.

Asking for help. (no typo)

My Utopia

A disproportionate amount of quality time with my family.

Space (around me … not the new frontier)

Warm climate

Winter Ski Vacations

Good food, wine and beer

Relaxed lifestyle

Friendly positive people around me.

Domicile in both Australia & the Netherlands … or possibly Germany (Düsseldorf or Munich).

Sufficient income to enable all of the above with a work schedule I control entirely myself.

Me Professionally

I have worked with large multinationals, local and national government and SMEs in numerous countries across four continents. My businesses range from Corporate Finance to Interim Management, Consultancy, IT, Online Business Services, Event Staging and Production, and Wine Exports. The latter has led to the gastronomy ventures referred to above. If you are interested in any of these areas drop me a line.

I believe that business is not a democracy!!! Having lived and conducted business in Europe (and especially in Holland) I am very firm in this belief. Most business in this day and age should be hierarchical providing a clear authority structure with defined responsibility and people held accountable for their (in)actions. Socialist consensus based models will rarely if ever succeed and are in part to blame for the deterioration of human efficiency within the workplace.

In all of my companies that I have either set up and run or in which I still hold an interest/am active, our goal is to achieve excellence based on an ethical, moral and common sense approach. Since 1985 I have provided consultancy, advice and interim management to global business and industry and have realised that there is a dramatic void in the way many businesses approach the challenges of being in business; quite often the same void is present in the consultancies that advise them. The void I am talking about is common sense; undoubtedly a lot of people have it but sadly only few ever use it. Further compounding this is an exodus of basic moral and ethical values in the workplace and the demise of principles and common decency in business life today.

In 1999 I decided I had seen enough incompetence; managers too busy keeping their jobs instead of doing their jobs; staff spending more time debating workplace rules than actually working; employees for whom process and procedures were the end and not the means. I realized that mainstream business consultancies were not helping and established a company to go back to basics and reintroduce straight talking and common sense thinking to the workplace. I built a network of like minded professionals with whom I could ensure the highest levels of quality and service. The result was the first in a series of businesses with a passion for achieving excellence. If you too are tired of the double-talk and incompetence, of paying for little or no results, contact me for an exploratory talk as to how I might be able to make a difference and let you start to see the benefits of being in business once again.

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