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Validating new venture concept in the encryption & data privacy field

Brisbane, Australia

- Investment Management, JFE Steel's investment management subsidiary for Australia- Byerwen Coal project co-ordination with Q Coal Pty Ltd

- Advisor to Japanese Managing Director and expatriate directors on Australian corporate governance and compliance.- Attend Joint Venture committee meetings and company and board meetings with Japanese directors to explain and translate issues where required.- Company secretary compliance duties for a large proprietary subsidiary company ($500m+ equity).- Reporting to head office on investment performance and management issues.- Management of contracted technical and legal specialists

- First point of contact and relationship management with coal mine JV Management companies (Rio Tinto, Whitehaven, Ensham Coal) - Attend Quarterly Joint Venture operating committee meetings and sales company board meetings with Directors.- Note discussions and votes, reporting to Head Office and verification of accuracy of official minutes.- Advising Japanese JV representative staff on Circulating Resolutions and proposals put to vote at meetings.

Brisbane Area, Australia / Japan

- Founded a real estate marketing company to market Australian and international luxury real estate to Japanese retirees. - Designed and launched a bilingual website containing marketing information and a searchable database of properties. - Concluded a marketing alliance with Home Adpark, the third largest of Japan’s online real estate portals. Seminars were held in Japan, including our company launch at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo.

- University lecturing (at Qld University of Technology and Australian Catholic University) and seminars for industry groups (Australian Industry Group) on conducting business in Asia. Lectured on cross-cultural communications, corporate governance, and the history of the Asian Financial Crisis. - Consulting and translation of investor relations materials, compliance reports and marketing materials for a range of securities firms and banks in Japan.

- Developed and implemented the firm's Asia-Pacific regional sales and marketing plan.- Sales of outsourced multilingual customer contact services and CRM services to corporations throughout Asia with needs for a global customer service response.

Sydney, Australia

- Principal point of contact for sales and customer service to a portfolio of Japanese Corporates (Sogo Shosha) and non-bank financial institutions.- Product lines included lending, treasury, derivatives and trade finance.

Tokyo, Japan

- Global Account Manager with dotted-line reporting from a team of Relationship Managers serving Japanese clients operating in 19 countries. Total credit of GBP 2 billion extended globally .- Portfolio of blue-chip Japanese corporate clients including Toyota, NEC, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Itochu, Sumitomo, Marubeni, Fuji Film. Smaller portfolio of foreign clients including Castrol.- Small 'bad bank' portfolio of workout clients.- Worked in the Japanese language with clients and colleagues. - including a period as acting Head of Corporate Banking, Japan.

Hong Kong

- Career progression from Credit Analyst to Relationship Manager. Principal point of contact for client relationships with a portfolio of blue-chip Hong Kong clients- Corporate clients: Cheung Kong Group (Hutchison), Swire Group, HK Electric and Cathay Pacific. - Worked as general client support for a range of product specialists. Landmark deals included Standard Chartered Bank's participation in HK$5bn syndicated loans for MTRC and Kowloon Rail Transport Company, which set the record for the largest corporate finance deals in HK at that time- Relationship manager for Hutchison Telecommunications' GBP700m syndication in the London market; acted as client relationship manager on the New Hong Kong Tunnel and Chep Lap Kok infrastructure syndications. Arranged approval of credit applications for cash management solutions, derivatives facilities, trade finance credit lines and a full range of banking services.

Brisbane, Australia

- Recruited as a graduate to NAB's international cadetship, with fast-track introduction to a range of positions in their International Operations Department.- Remittances, Letters of Credit, Foreign Exchange, SWIFT/TELEX and settlement systems.

交換留学生, Japanese Studies

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics And Statistics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Japanese Studies

Activities and Societies: Joint President of UQ Japanese Society, DJ at radio station 4ZZZ, Research Assistant to Professor Alan Rix, Key.

Applied Project Management, Project Management

Professional Development

Education record

Education record