My professional experience had a foundation in the domain of the face to face, direct sales world. For 20+ years, I've built b2b and and b2c f2f sales teams, nationally and internationally, for Fortune 500 companies - including Verizon, AT&T, Shell, BT, MBNA Europe and Woolworths/Macquarie, Vodafone and Telstra Australia.I've a product background. (Researching what consumers want, finding the right manufacturer/supplier, importing and then selling vast quantities of that product - globally).I’ve experience in setting up and financing businesses from scratch, the on-going support of those businesses, and the people I trained to run them. The current count is 787 separate corporations internationally with 74% of them trading profitably past the 5 years in business mark. I’ve made an effort to travel the world, studying the leaders in my industry, to learn from their experience, and adapting to their best practices (UK/Ireland, USA, Canada, Australasia, Germany, Poland, Holland, Spain, Portugal, India, Scandinavia, Israel, Japan, Dubai and China)I have a personal passion in investing, I love being involved in creating something from nothing and navigating it through “the valley of death” to sustainable growth. (edit Jan '24 - That period is done now, profitably cash-flowing businesses only these days please).I’ve added personally investing in external businesses, that I believe are going to benefit from a combination of a mega trend, the right people running them, and my network/experience/strategy insights. JAR Aerospace/JAR Education - (currently a leader in STEM education and advanced manufacturing composites). Created 3 years training IP for RAAF, for all of Australia's Air Force cadets to learn to design, build, code and fly UAV's. Nicovape Australia (now Liber Pharma) - Australia’s, indeed the world's, first and only legal, nicotine containing electronic cigarette, only available via pharmacies. This is a world leader, and will be a big player over the next 5 years.Executiveassistant.com - “Executive Assistant Network,” the place to learn how to become a top 10% executive assistant. 12,000 members in Australia, 15 year trading history, currently working on global expansion of EAN.Seeynor - Assisted living Med Tech scale up. Specialities Listening Understanding new models quicklyBusiness start ups/seed financing/growth stage implementationMan(/Woman) managementStrategic sales planning/ implementation of rapid national/international customer acquisition campaignsScale upsDisaster mgmtRed Teaming Public Speaking