Commissioned as a in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm during the last war, he was transformed by high pressure training from a young graduate IMechE. in to being and behaving like a Naval Officer within one year. It is not well known that the Nelson tradition requires Officers to be highly entrepreneurial to the point that if an Officer fails to make his own decisions irrespective of orders from above he can expect to be court marshalled. With this leadership attitude and power of command, he had a spells as a Chief Engineer in Buenos Aires, and Managing Director, in Paris respnsible to the Chairman and Board of Directors of the Glasgow based Weir Engineering Group, fe became Vice President Europe for Global Global Corporations (Yale,Firestone,Schlitz) as a trouble shooter, which led to becoming CEO of a pioneer Europen Venture Capital Fund 'Scienta Holdings SA. ' . Later ,Later, he became Adviser to the European Commissioner the financing of innovation which led to the launch of the Venture Capital Profession in Europewhich in the USA is considered to be the ultimate entrepreneurial activity. Since the and still today , he is an independent Venture Capital investing his time and know how as mentor an coach as a venture manager specialised in New Technology Based Firms aiming at Global Expansion.