MIT Enterprise Forum CEE is a CEE based, equity-free start up acceleration program affiliated to the worldwide recognized Massachusetts Institute of Technology that provides financial, legal and consultancy support to start up founder from the CEE region. The MIT Enterprise Forum CEE delivers two editions of the CEE-based, equity-free start up acceleration program every year.The program culminates annually in a week-long Bootcamp in Boston, Massachusetts USA for the top ten finalists… Show more MIT Enterprise Forum CEE is a CEE based, equity-free start up acceleration program affiliated to the worldwide recognized Massachusetts Institute of Technology that provides financial, legal and consultancy support to start up founder from the CEE region. The MIT Enterprise Forum CEE delivers two editions of the CEE-based, equity-free start up acceleration program every year.The program culminates annually in a week-long Bootcamp in Boston, Massachusetts USA for the top ten finalists drawn from both editions of that year. The Bootcamp includes visits to accelerators and maker spaces as well as training, networking, and pitching sessions throughout the innovation ecosystem and anchored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Show less

Helping build businesses to scale and attract commerce and investment. Innfall has created a mapped journey to investment and success by supporting businesses to achieve critical targets that makes them investible. We work with a select number of Investment Funds who trust our recommendations on investment-ready businesses.We have tier 1business contacts across Europe and often generate qualified sales opportunities for our clients.Recent successes;$1 million first… Show more Helping build businesses to scale and attract commerce and investment. Innfall has created a mapped journey to investment and success by supporting businesses to achieve critical targets that makes them investible. We work with a select number of Investment Funds who trust our recommendations on investment-ready businesses.We have tier 1business contacts across Europe and often generate qualified sales opportunities for our clients.Recent successes;$1 million first sales contract for Polish business in new market (sales&networking)€2.5 million Horizon grant (finance)₤10 million series A funding for UK company Show less

Boutique Krakow-based software house with clients in the US. u2i had one major client accounting for 70% of its income, plus high-risk start-up clients that had limited funding, it was also highly exposed to financial risk through startup client failure. Diversified and mitigated financial risk by creating central core of 3 major clients, this created income revenue generation split of 40/25/20%, securing the majority of the agency incomeBuilt new business in Europe, brought in 1st… Show more Boutique Krakow-based software house with clients in the US. u2i had one major client accounting for 70% of its income, plus high-risk start-up clients that had limited funding, it was also highly exposed to financial risk through startup client failure. Diversified and mitigated financial risk by creating central core of 3 major clients, this created income revenue generation split of 40/25/20%, securing the majority of the agency incomeBuilt new business in Europe, brought in 1st European clients with a contract value of €1+ millionCreated a thorough vetting process to understand and evaluate financial risk levels of new startup/scale up clients. Similar approach and methods used by investors. Show less

Designing effective company strategies from the Client’s vision and stakeholder feedback; mentoring to assist leadership teams maximise the performance of their businesses. Examples:Executive and Board Training and Mentoring: Growing entity (t/o $12m) to identify and unite in developing a clear, measurable, and implementable strategy. Coached CEO in board skills, leadership, and management. Outcome: from a loss of $50,000 to a profit of $146,000 in year one with predictions to… Show more Designing effective company strategies from the Client’s vision and stakeholder feedback; mentoring to assist leadership teams maximise the performance of their businesses. Examples:Executive and Board Training and Mentoring: Growing entity (t/o $12m) to identify and unite in developing a clear, measurable, and implementable strategy. Coached CEO in board skills, leadership, and management. Outcome: from a loss of $50,000 to a profit of $146,000 in year one with predictions to double that in year two.Change Management: Successfully tackling silo issues at Partner level within Financial and Law Practices. With one client; innovation, lateral thinking, and problem-solving programs. Increased billing of $23m across all services of the business by 7%.Strategic planning: Building measurable surveys and data analytics to support stakeholder feedback, process improvement, and commercial insight. Increased an organisation’s membership by 30% and reduced churn to under 5%, adding $4 million in fees. Show less

Academic, learning-based Association. Engaged by the Board to build Association relevance to improve membership so that it could be amalgamated into a larger existing association. As CEO, the following changes were delivered:• Change Management and Organisational Development: Designing and implementing strategy-based learning programmes for the board. Increasing membership by identifying and providing value; in the first 12 months drove membership from 75 to 450 paid… Show more Academic, learning-based Association. Engaged by the Board to build Association relevance to improve membership so that it could be amalgamated into a larger existing association. As CEO, the following changes were delivered:• Change Management and Organisational Development: Designing and implementing strategy-based learning programmes for the board. Increasing membership by identifying and providing value; in the first 12 months drove membership from 75 to 450 paid members.• Relevance: Created a measurable qualitative research framework with leading academic researchers then designed and delivered courses on qualitative-based training and academic member support programmes to set professional standards. Delivery included blended e-learning, instructor-led consulting, facilitating, coaching and evaluating training effectiveness.• Professional skills: Constant professional development programme created that included events, symposiums, debates and interactive workshops.• Perception: Promoting structured and measurable quantitative frameworks to academia, corporations and government to prove the value of quantitative data for evidence-based decision making.Achieved plan in 18 months and IAQR absorbed into a larger research-based association. Secured qualitative research as a measurable tool recognised and used by Government and businesses to provide reliable data for strategic decision-making. Show less

A new business model to make this a stand-alone and profitable business.Developing core support services for start-up tenants including:business education, training & mentoringnetworkingbusiness planningfinancial management

OurView Foundation: Providing a forum for any Australian to register their stand on any major public issue, enable any Australian to quickly and easily access key arguments bearing on those issues, and identify the public wisdom - the considered collective view - and provide that as an input into national political processes.

Austhink Software is a decision making programme that focuses people's thinking. Austhink’s software promotes more effective critical thinking, collaboration and communication, and helps make everyday problem solving easier.

Coached Principal Dentists to improve the performance of their Dental Practices through an operation and training structured Management Programme similar in content to an MBA. Overall Practices increased revenue by 30% achieved through more referrals, higher case acceptance rates, higher production, and increased patient loyalty. Dentists also worked one month less a year than before the program.• Knowledge Management: Rewrote existing business learning resources (Nov 2013 onwards)… Show more Coached Principal Dentists to improve the performance of their Dental Practices through an operation and training structured Management Programme similar in content to an MBA. Overall Practices increased revenue by 30% achieved through more referrals, higher case acceptance rates, higher production, and increased patient loyalty. Dentists also worked one month less a year than before the program.• Knowledge Management: Rewrote existing business learning resources (Nov 2013 onwards) incorporating deep learning principles, updated business methodologies including TED Talks, and created face-to-face and built online modules. Devised feedback loops to quickly identify issues, measure the delivery and generate high learner satisfaction over the old course. • CRM and Client Management: Increased employee accountability for sales, creating a new CRM and client feedback loops to generate managed referrals. $400,000 additional revenue increase in the first 3 months.• Proved course effectiveness by measuring increased performance in Clients’ practices. The average increase in Client’s turnover was 30% increased, on average, in the first three months with a return on investment of 579% on their fees.• Learning and Training Delivery: Delivered the training course to over 10 Clients, and provided coaching in change management, personal development, leadership, and operations management. Also trained employees to implement organizational change and report on new processes. Show less

BIR is an insolvency practice and management consultancy. Turned around failing businesses by designing structured recovery plans for creditors, then driving the business to generate revenue. Identifying business opportunities and upskilling staff through learning and mentoring to quickly capitalise. The overall survival success rate is in excess of 80%.• Interim CEO of some businesses through the transition from insolvency to solvency• Delivering support, mentoring, and learning to… Show more BIR is an insolvency practice and management consultancy. Turned around failing businesses by designing structured recovery plans for creditors, then driving the business to generate revenue. Identifying business opportunities and upskilling staff through learning and mentoring to quickly capitalise. The overall survival success rate is in excess of 80%.• Interim CEO of some businesses through the transition from insolvency to solvency• Delivering support, mentoring, and learning to leadership teams of businesses in survival mode. This included addressing existing strategies and business models, re-establishing competitiveness, and designing quick-to-market solutions to ease short-term cash flow issues.• Developed Client Surveys that delivered live data, allowing leadership teams to make knowledge-based strategic decisions. One Association client used it to increase their membership by 64% over 3 years adding $2m p.a. to their bottom line. Show less

Eikonic is a pharma start-up addressing Periodontal disease.

Delivered the Certificate IV (diploma) Business Management course providing necessary skills to start new businesses. Imparting a strong business focus that delivered practical learning and development solutions, driving business and individual performance.• Creating, planning, running, and evaluating business management training. Mentoring new business owners with a focus on client-value, communications, customer service, marketing, business planning, and strategy.• Mentored and… Show more Delivered the Certificate IV (diploma) Business Management course providing necessary skills to start new businesses. Imparting a strong business focus that delivered practical learning and development solutions, driving business and individual performance.• Creating, planning, running, and evaluating business management training. Mentoring new business owners with a focus on client-value, communications, customer service, marketing, business planning, and strategy.• Mentored and coached over 20 new businesses. Introduced start-up businesses into established business networks to generate business opportunities through specifically targeted and effective introductions, facilitating 3 former students landing contracts with a combined value of $36,000. Show less

Portfolio increase to $1.7m from existing $1.3m

Brought in specifically to win and run the RACV Club launch account worth $1.5 million

Pharmaceutical Healthcare Marketing.Built turnover in year 1 at $500,000 to year 4 to $6 m. Client portfolio included Drager, Gilead, Johnson & Johnson

Sports Marketing, Business Development, sponsorship contract negotiations up to $3 million with companies such as Nokia, Red Bull, Toyota and Silk Cut.

L!VE TV, business to business marketing of the cable television arm of Trinity Mirror specifically in the Birmingham and Newcastle areas.

Worked on Goggomobil campaigns. Planning, reporting and implementation of above-line TV and radio campaigns including roi effectiveness.