Personal Overview.Chris founded 2 of the most successful Ad Agencies in the late 80's and 90's as voted by B&T Magazine 2000 - 2003 and developed an impressive niche business under the umbrella of Columbus Creative Pty Ltd in Venture Capital raising and the B2B market for a high-level Business Development consultancy whereby companies can take advantage of his services and talents to either help re-brand, or develop strategic relationships to grow new business across many business sectors including Media, Marketing, Insurance, Banking, Tech, retail and Environment.He is very proud to be well regarded by many peers and clients past and present for his deep board advisory & high-value business network connections. Moreover, he has a ‘determination can do, never let go’, approach to business building and business-getting strategies.Chris believes not many people don’t 'have a grasp', of the complexity and sheer time involved in prospecting mining high-level Business Development Connections. As he says all the time. "Time is our biggest enemy when it comes to capital raising and creating a sales lead to close".Chris’ skill set includes the ability to cut through to the right decision maker, giving his clients the benefit of a quick entrée to decision makers and the influencers that matter to the client. Chris will quickly translate a proposed solution into the Prospect’s desired business outcomes. Quickly getting to the right people with a desirable message has the added benefit of a much more efficient sales process, translating into cost and time savings efficiencies. Chris’ approach is the same in both in his personal life and business life; is his ever enthusiastic, honest, positive, punctual, mostly respectful to all who work with him respects the ideas and thoughts of others, and to deliver on what he promises.Chris is your 'Go To Man' for anything to do with pitching high value Business Solutions to the Executive level. Well before there's a recognised problem Chris is already working on the strategy to educate on the opportunity, and then to resolve the issue, improve the image or source the capital.Areas of expertise including but not limited to:Rebranding, Media & Advertising- Outsourced Marketing- Seed Capital Raising and Expansion capital for a pre IPO- High-Level New Business DevelopmentTo quote Jeremy Pollard of Pitcher Partners (formerly Director, Dialect Solutions Group); “If you need doors opened and ideas circulated, Chris is your man”.