About Me
Experience
I graduated from Brighton Grammar School (BGS) in Melbourne Victoria, Australia in 1996. That same year I started at Deutsche Bank, Melbourne in the Corporate Banking and Project Finance Department. I continued my studies at the Australian Stock Exchange completing a Diploma in Applied Finance in 1999.
First Company (1998 - 2002)
In 1998 I left Deutsche Bank and founded The Carbon Trader (later known as TCT Commodities) an energy derivatives commodity trading business that went onto amass the largest bank of carbon credits behind the World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund. The company specialised in trading and hedging on behalf of multi-national corporations with its biggest client being TEPCO Japan. TCT was valued by Macquarie Bank at A$250m in 2002 shortly before my exit.
Second Company (2002 - 2014)
Following on from TCT, I took my banking skill set and applied it to the hospitality industry creating M1NT - The World’s First Shareholders Club in 2002. The first M1NT Club opened in London in 2004 with Gordon Ramsay as partner and Sebastien Sainsbury as Chairman. M1NT expanded to France in 2005, Hong Kong 2006 and Shanghai in 2008. Upon my exit in 2014 the M1NT Group has 1,200 employees, US$70m in revenue and 2,000 shareholders (www.M1NT.com).