About
Hi, welcome to my blog. I’m a 31 year old entrepreneur, who’s now started 3x companies since dropping out of uni, moving out of home and quitting my job in the space of 2 weeks at about the same time as the Nasdaq tanked in 2000.
Against the odds, two of my ventures, Internetrix and Hiive Systems, have been quite successful – they’re profitable, have happy clients, staff and real offices, and most importantly, I’ve learned a heck of a lot from them.
I was born and grew up in Wollongong, NSW, a city of about a quarter million about an hour south of Australia’s largest city, Sydney. In August 2011 I moved to San Francisco to take my company’s product, AffinityLive, to market.
I’m active in the web technology community, mostly through my involvement with SiliconBeachAustralia.org and closer to home in my previous role as a foundation board member of ICT Illawarra. For these contributions I was recognised at the Pearcey Foundation Awards in 2010 (http://www.pearcey.org.au/2010_NSW_Award)
Outside the land of tech, I was a foundation board member with the Wollongong Hawks, a basketball team in the National Basketball League, the elite men’s league in Australia until I moved to San Francisco.
I’m also involved in my community as a board member of Regional Development Australia, Illawarra, the peak economic development and advisory body in the Illawarra region.
For more info on my “day jobs”, check out my first startup in 2000, Internetrix, a boutique web development and consulting business (which happens to be one of Google’s handful of technology partners globally), and my newest initiative, Hiive Systems, a web-based software development company providing client and task management solutions for the services sector (read finance, government, education, professional services, creative industries).
When I’m not working, I have a passion for aviation, have recently completed my MBA and am now an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong.
