Managing Director of an underfunded exploration company with highly prospective tenements and a fabulous core technical team

Taken a terrible USD20m first investment by some Chinese shareholders into an Australian Mining company with sub-Saharan assets and turned it around where hopefully, if the PE Company acts as a JV Partner and not the normal bombastic know it all, clever than all others, fund we will sell it for a considerable profit over the next 12 months

NED and Chair of Credit Committee on a modest sized PE Fund holding ex Investment Banker and Entrepreneurial Money, Some interesting and successful Investments in Fintech, retail and Payment Systems and some absolute dogs in debt factoring

Governor of International school that sold vanity based incredible education. Brilliant experience and most fabulous role in the last 2 decades

MD of AAA, top tier investment bank based in HK, brilliant people, great culture and actually did act in best interest of clients but strategically frustrating so I made the mistake of allowing a Head Hunter to convince me to jump ship to a AA- investment bank (still in HK), terrible culture full of unjustified egos who would say anything for a deal, my mistake to have joined but that's life. Left and decided to move to UK or Australia; choose Australia and used the BB+ bank to move me there. As was common (when things get too hard for an Investment Bank) they changed their strategy from wanting to expand into Asia to not wanting to so I drew a line under Investment banking and left the industry.

MD of AAA, top tier investment bank based in HK, brilliant people, great culture and actually did act in best interest of clients but strategically frustrating so I made the mistake of allowing a Head Hunter to convince me to jump ship to a AA- investment bank (still in HK), terrible culture full of unjustified egos who would say anything for a deal, my mistake to have joined but that's life. Left and decided to move to UK or Australia; choose Australia and used the BB+ bank to move me there. As was common (when things get too hard for an Investment Bank) they changed their strategy from wanting to expand into Asia to not wanting to so I drew a line under Investment banking and left the industry.

Equity Partner, Global Sector Head. Great time, the sector I ran was booming so any half clever idiot could make budget. One of the highest billing and paid Partners working no more than 30 hours a week - if only my ego hadn't wanted to test whether I could play in the Premier League of Top Tier Investment banking