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Always caring for clients and their needs, I have applied my skills in cross border transaction management & execution including identification, sourcing, and engagement with strategic partners to achieve successful M&A, joint ventures & strategic investment outcomes, sourcing project equity & debt, as well as securing new trophy customers. For mining & metals, critical minerals, and new energy projects, this has included securing bankable product offtake, often building new supply chains. For tech, biotech, and IT&T this has included strategic equity, product licensing & securing new sales channels into international markets. Decades of experience in the key investment, technology, trading, production & manufacturing centres globally. Effective communication, analytical & innovation skills. Resident in Asia, with over 40 years of experience living & working in Australia, London, Tokyo, Taiwan, mainland China and SE Asia with leading London & New York headquartered Investment Banks & GC Partners Limited, one of the longest established Corporate Finance & Advisory firms headquartered in Asia.Youngest non-American ever appointed as Director of an international Merrill Lynch & Co. subsidiary. Often at the forefront of new developments in finance and tech markets, including: executed one of the first cross border interest rate & currency swaps; lived and worked in Tokyo during the economic expansion in the 1980s; transactions in VC and private equity from 1990; sale of the Microplex Group to Cable & Wireless OPTUS - their 1st Internet acquisition; largest roll-up of seven Internet service companies for Asia Online Limited, a JP Morgan, GE Capital & Softbank Ventures venture company; co-founded a company that won COMPAQ Computer software of the year award; three AIM admissions for Australian and Asian companies; early recognition of mainland China with the opening of a rep office in 2002; ongoing focus on the resource & tech-hungry Asian economies, with the energy transition driving GC Partners expansion into the European and U.S. markets in 2019.Led successful teams for over 40 years always striving for the gold standard in client service and outcomes. Experience in establishing offices in Australia, London, Taiwan, and mainland China including Chengdu, Nanjing, and Beijing. Extremely resilient and flexible, balancing competing demands, both personal and professional. Have navigated changing business conditions from the "big bang" in the early 1980s, the Asian financial crisis, the Internet boom, GFC, & 25 years of fast growth since the late 1990s.

Listed skills include Project Execution, Banking, Commodity Markets, Deal Sourcing, and 31 others.