I have thirty years of corporate finance and management experience including Turnaround Specialist, General Manager, CEO, CFO, Vice President of Finance, Controller and Treasurer. In addition to full P&L responsibility, I have provided consulting services to stakeholders of organizations that are under-performing, transitional, in an out-of-court workout mode, or Chapter proceeding. These services have included viability analysis, organizational restructuring, liquidation analysis, due diligence in acquisition situations, expert witness testimony, collateral evaluation and results monitoring. Stakeholders to whom services have been rendered include commercial banks, unsecured creditor groups, and the owners and management of under-performing companies. Most of my turnaround experience was gained in the 90's in the wake of the recession that began in 1989.

In recent years I have focused on start-ups, helping found and finance several companies primarily, though not exclusively, in the technology sector. I have enjoyed considerable success with early stage start-ups despite the more difficult capital market conditions of late. An example of a technology company that I co-founded, raised the seed round capital for, and sat on the Board of, can be found here.

I provide ongoing consulting services to clients, comprised primarily of small to medium sized closely held businesses involved in such things as professional services, international trade, medical services, and manufacturing. These services run the gamut from dispute resolution, negotiation for the purchase and sale of businesses or divisions thereof, design and implementation of financial and management control systems, project management, product development and business expansion advice, to feasibility investigation and analysis for new products.

I am a one-stop shop for early stage startup's capital raising needs. That is, I assemble all of the components required by the startup wishing to raise seed or early round capital. Law firms performing this task will typically charge up to $50,000, and they often aren't equipped to do the financial pieces of the Private Placement Memorandum (the financial projections, cash flows, and Capitalization Table). I do it all, including assembling the underlying financial model (so that the startup can do scenario analysis), and I also negotiate the terms governing the equity sale (the Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement), and I assemble the underlying legal agreements governing this capital transaction. I've put together a PPM Template along with some attached sample documents.

I've spent the last 9 months working with a group of partners developing a product, and putting together the company and associated market strategy to ensure a successful market launch, which launch will likely occur within the next few months. We're at the stage where we are about to seek seed capital financing. You can obtain more detail here.

I attended college on a Commonwealth academic scholarship graduating from the University of NSW with degrees in Finance and Law. I was admitted to practice law, though I never have, as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1979. I am a native of Australia; enjoy Permanent Resident Alien status in the US and live in Rolling Hills in southern California.

Over the years I have served on the Boards of Directors for several non-profit organizations. Currently I sit on the Board of Community Enhancement Corporation ("CEC"). CEC is a small, Los Angeles-based philanthropic organization (a 501(c)(3) corporation) dedicated to revitalizing neighborhoods and providing needed community services to some of the less salubrious areas of Los Angeles. We are in the process of closing on $12 million of financing, partnering with the City of Los Angeles and a large national bank, utilizing New Market Tax Credits as our primary financing vehicle (a first for southern California). The funds will be used to renovate and convert an already acquired historically significant site into a community center and medical clinic in inner city Los Angeles.