Grounded in financial journalism and wrote for newspapers in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa & the United Kingdom to 1980. Reinvented to media relations, consulting to ASX Top 200 companies until 1997. Reinvented again into investor engagement, proxy solicitation and shareholder opinion research.With business partner Maria leftakis at Global Proxy Solicitation ("GPS") - now Morrow Sodali Australia - completely reinvented AND re-engineered the way investor engagement, proxy solicitation and shareholder research is managed and executed in Australia, 2007/8.Our goal for GPS was to achieve market leader status in 3 years. Attained this in 18 months; continue pulling ahead of competitors; and are well out front as innovators and pathfinders. GPS is strongly resourced and continues to lead in integrity, strategy and service to ASX-listed and global companies and funds.In January 2016, teamed up with John Hurst - former Managing Editor of the Australian Financial Review and CEO of Australian corporate communications firm Cannings - to form Quay Advisers, a specialist communications consultant to chairs, boards and senior management on strategic and tactical media issues, investor engagement, discrete research. and regulatory and government relations.After a phenomenally successful three years, in March 2019 Quay Advisers was acquired by New York based Teneo, the leading global CEO advisory firm.Maintained significant media relations and special issues consulting to top ASX listed companies and in April 2022, was appointed by Alliance Advisors LLC of New Jersey, as founding chair of Alliance Advisors Australia (www.allianceadvisors.com).Resigned that role in April 2022 to focus on ASX client engagements.