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Degrees
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At the commencement of my working life, I completed a five year apprenticeship in the RAAF. This included, inter alia, two years full-time study at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and one years full-time study at the RAAF School of Radio. I later completed RMIT post-graduate studies in industrial electronics for industry. That led to work experience as both a tradesman technician (Radio Technician (Air) and a supervisor of technical processes.
I subsequently completed a diploma in Business Administration through the Hemingway-Robertson Institute.
The rest of my experience was gained in the University of Hard Knocks.
In that respect, I am one of a select few who have risen from apprentice tradesman to become chief executive of substantial commercial enterprises employing over 220 personnel.
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My Expert Service
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I am an independent business consultant in Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. (Redcliffe is a city contiguous with the northern boundary of Brisbane, state capital of Queensland). I work under the trading name Chiron Associates. business doctors™. My principal area of work is helping companies with a history of growth or high growth potential to raise capital through the issue of equity or debt securities. This activity is conducted in accordance with a Class Order (viz., a set of regulations) issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC is the Australian Governmentfs securities industry regulatory authority and is the direct Australian equivalent of the United States' SEC. The Class Order enables me to provide clients with two main things:
¡ the ability to raise capital by selling securities (something that happens in any transaction involving investors), and
¡ the appropriate framework for doing so without breaching the Australian Corporations Act 2001 (the Act governing Australian corporate management activities).
I can provide clients with these two benefits because under the terms of the Class Order, my consultancy is legally exempt from having to comply with certain of the fund raising provisions of the Australian Corporations Act 2001 in helping clients to raise capital from the public. In specific terms, I am exempted from the requirement of having to prepare a formal and expensive prospectus and register it with ASIC before attempting to raise equity capital.
The importance of this is that in Australia it is illegal for individuals or companies to raise equity funds from the public without the issue of a prospectus that has been first registered with ASIC, unless they make such offers through an exempted organisation such as Chiron Associates. business doctors™. In Australia, prospectuses are very expensive to produce and publish.
Prospectuses also have a time-delay factor that militates against quick action. This is a consequence of the preparation and registration process. Moreover, there is no centralised marketplace where prospectuses can be lodged and viewed by potential investors. This is a practical service that I can provide to Clients through my business alliance with Quantum Business Securities (QBS). QBS conducts an online Bulletin Board where Equity Offers issued by accredited persons like me can be viewed by potential investors.
Through my exemption from the fundraising provisions of the Corporations Law, I can process a companyfs request for equity funding relatively quickly. In the place of a prospectus, I prepare a eClass Order Compliant Documentf (COCOD) that sets out details of the company concerned, its business objectives and how they will be achieved, the anticipated financial returns and details of the equity offer. This is a very cost-effective and convenient benefit that ASIC has given to growth companies wishing to raise equity capital.
Naturally, any projects I work on do not have to be local Australian projects. I can accept project work from anywhere. In recent times I have prepared business plans for companies, and assisted them to become investment ready, from a variety of locations. My eworst casef was a company with four directors who were each closely involved in the preparation of the company's formal business plan. One director was resident in London, UK; one director was resident in California, USA and the other two were resident in Queensland, and living some 100 miles apart.
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Experience & Qualifications
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I have senior management work experience that covers:
¡ commercial business management across a range of managerial and trading disciplines,
experience that includes the successful turnarounds of two substantial corporations,
¡ the representation of individual companies and industry groups in high level negotiations
with government representatives in relation to policy, legislative and regulatory issues,
¡ the representation of individual companies in sensitive negotiations with company senior
executive staff in relation to contracts of employment, performance management issues
and matters related thereto,
¡ the representation of industry groups and individual companies in high level negotiations with
trade union representatives in relation to conditions of employment, enterprise and workplace
agreements,
¡ human resources management (industrial relations and employee relations) in the strategic
policy, consultant advisor and functional applications roles,
¡ the provision of industry policy advice to industry councils & companies of various sizes, and
¡ the application at industry and company levels of entrepreneurial process improvement
and change management programs designed to increase productivity, profitability and
international competitiveness.
This wide experience gives me the knowledge, skill and ability to blend your need to achieve positive corporate goals (as measured by profits) with the obligation to treat employees (as your most valuable resource) fairly and equitably, within the overriding priority of providing to customers and clients, a uniquely-competent, high-quality, cost-effective service.
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Available Modes Of Communication
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email/chat
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Contact
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