Experience

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  Australian Institute of International Affairs

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Council Member

    • Oct 2018 - Present
    • Sydney, Australia

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  AFG Venture Group

  • Australia

  • Director

    • Apr 2009 - Present
    • Australia

    Provide Corporate Advisory services,specifically in relation to cross-border activities. Arrange cross border joint-ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and market entry strategies. The excellent experience with Asean Focus Group in which many large and mid sized companies were established in the Asean region with a low risk entry, which allowed them to move to profit quite quickly, has been very satisfying.It also allowed a broad and deep contact base in both the private and public sectors.

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  Asean Focus Group

  • Director

    • 1990 - Present

    Provided advice and assistance to those organisations which wished to establish or enhance a commercial presence in selected countries of Asean. This could include strategy development and implementation, business structuring, partner selection [and avoidance], and just getting the entity operational. Also advised the foreign investment boards of several countries on their inward investment strategies. As we saw commercial opportunities , encourage foreign companies to take advantage of those commercial opportunities.Increasingly assisted and advised companies in Asean to undertake cross border commercial entries

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  AFG Venture Group (Thailand) Ltd

  • Director

    • Jun 2009 - Present

    Non executive Director

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  Australia-Myanmar Chamber of Commerce

  • Australia

  • Chairman

    • Mar 2013 - Nov 2016
    • Australia

    The Chamber is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to promote responsible bilateral trade and investment between Australia and Myanmar and closer economic ties between the two countries. The Chamber will initially focus on: Increasing awareness of Myanmar and the opportunities it presents for the Australian private sector; Supporting Australian companies and institutions seeking to enter the Myanmar market; and Assisting with capacity building and skill transfer for the Myanmar private sector with Australian best practices and industry expertise.

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  University of Western Sydney

  • the UWS School of Business; Postgraduate External Advisory Committee.

    • Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

    the UWS School of Business; Advisor on the Postgraduate External Advisory Committee.

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  Asian Business Connections

  • Australia

  • Director

    • Jan 1992 - Dec 2015
    • Australia

    Co founded this organisation to provide assistance and advice to small and mid sized companies who wished to understand the various countries and their markets in Asia

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  Australian Institute of International Affairs

  • Director

    • Sep 2009 - Jul 2011

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  Australia Thailand Business Council

  • National Director

    • Jan 1995 - Jun 2011