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Member of the Board
Nov 2016
OUR STORY
We believe small to medium business owners need and deserve to have better access to support and resources to nurture them, help them innovate, and support their growth and expansion, so we exist to empower them with knowledge, mentoring, age-old equity capital industry connections and an international support community so they are able to develop and maintain the best capital growth arrangements for their business.
Whilst programs, funds, accelerators and the like are abundant in the startup and pre-startup space, there is a distinct lack of the same in the early stage, immature and mature space, outside of the traditional grey suits and mahogany boardrooms of the established equity capital industry.
It is a good thing that the startup space has an industry built specifically to support startups, as it provides needed information, education and access to resources needed to help new and innovative ideas launch and make an impact on the world. The same structural offering is needed for early stage, immature and mature companies.
Secure Private Equity LLC (SPEQÜ) exists to fill the gap for established companies, whether early stage, immature or mature, to access the same type of resources prevalent in the startup space. These businesses are often left unaddressed, and must seek help, support, and financial assistance via traditional channels which can be a long, difficult and costly process without any structural value added to the business along the way. Traditional channels such as the banking industry, other institutional investors and the legal and financial professionals who can access private equity via their ultra-high and high net worth clients.
SPEQÜ was founded by equity capital industry veterans and private investors to nurture business potential and provide a genuine route to private equity capital funding.
Board Member
Dec 2015
Cash flow is the lifeblood of all SME’s and as business grows and expands cash flow can become stretched. This, and other problems brought on by perhaps a bad customer, a failed project, or a range of other matters beyond your direct control, can cause an otherwise very lucrative and viable business to border on insolvency, or worse become insolvent. Seriously!! As if running your own business is not hard enough.
You develop products or services; you share your value with targeted marketing; you arrange finance to grow and provide workable solutions to your clients; you hire a team to run the back office and develop and oversee admin, payroll, human resources, training and accounts receivable and payable.
Let’s be frank. Even the most experienced businessman is ill-equipped to deal with all of this let alone the trauma of insolvency and potential liquidation when cash flow is squeezed and times become tough.
That’s where AEGIS adds value. We provide independent and experienced negotiation that can achieve results business owners don’t consider or think possible.
Board Member
Sep 2015
We’re like you. Everyday Australian’s adding value where our capabilities meet commercial opportunities. Forging a better life for our families and contributing to improving the quality of life for other Australians.
EVERY TIME YOU ARRANGE FINANCE FOR YOUR BUSINESS WITH LOAN RESCUE
AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN ARE HELPED AND EXPERIENCE MORE HAPPINESS IN LIFE.
Apart from that, Loan Rescue provides direct fast access to business finance for viable commercial ventures using our own panel of lenders and investors. We do not act as a broker and welcome applications from brokers on behalf of their clients. The one exception is with regard to some working capital finance where we may pass the requirement to one of our panel partners.
We do not pay fees to brokers and introducers, and each broker, introducer or agent should have their own fee agreement with their clients.
Our “IMMEDIATE FINANCE” closes typically within 24 – 72 hours. Our “COMMERCIAL PROPERTY” finance closes normally between two and four weeks; and our “WORKING CAPITAL FINANCE” closes usually between one and four weeks.
We have a triple bottom-line view of business (people, planet, profits) and every transaction we close contributes to improving the quality of life of Australian children and their families.
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2016
Member of the Board
Nov 2016
OUR STORY
We believe small to medium business owners need and deserve to have better access to support and resources to nurture them, help them innovate, and support their growth and expansion, so we exist to empower them with knowledge, mentoring, age-old equity capital industry connections and an international support community so they are able to develop and maintain the best capital growth arrangements for their business.
Whilst programs, funds, accelerators and the like are abundant in the startup and pre-startup space, there is a distinct lack of the same in the early stage, immature and mature space, outside of the traditional grey suits and mahogany boardrooms of the established equity capital industry.
It is a good thing that the startup space has an industry built specifically to support startups, as it provides needed information, education and access to resources needed to help new and innovative ideas launch and make an impact on the world. The same structural offering is needed for early stage, immature and mature companies.
Secure Private Equity LLC (SPEQÜ) exists to fill the gap for established companies, whether early stage, immature or mature, to access the same type of resources prevalent in the startup space. These businesses are often left unaddressed, and must seek help, support, and financial assistance via traditional channels which can be a long, difficult and costly process without any structural value added to the business along the way. Traditional channels such as the banking industry, other institutional investors and the legal and financial professionals who can access private equity via their ultra-high and high net worth clients.
SPEQÜ was founded by equity capital industry veterans and private investors to nurture business potential and provide a genuine route to private equity capital funding.
2015
Board Member
Dec 2015
Cash flow is the lifeblood of all SME’s and as business grows and expands cash flow can become stretched. This, and other problems brought on by perhaps a bad customer, a failed project, or a range of other matters beyond your direct control, can cause an otherwise very lucrative and viable business to border on insolvency, or worse become insolvent. Seriously!! As if running your own business is not hard enough.
You develop products or services; you share your value with targeted marketing; you arrange finance to grow and provide workable solutions to your clients; you hire a team to run the back office and develop and oversee admin, payroll, human resources, training and accounts receivable and payable.
Let’s be frank. Even the most experienced businessman is ill-equipped to deal with all of this let alone the trauma of insolvency and potential liquidation when cash flow is squeezed and times become tough.
That’s where AEGIS adds value. We provide independent and experienced negotiation that can achieve results business owners don’t consider or think possible.
Board Member
Sep 2015
We’re like you. Everyday Australian’s adding value where our capabilities meet commercial opportunities. Forging a better life for our families and contributing to improving the quality of life for other Australians.
EVERY TIME YOU ARRANGE FINANCE FOR YOUR BUSINESS WITH LOAN RESCUE
AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN ARE HELPED AND EXPERIENCE MORE HAPPINESS IN LIFE.
Apart from that, Loan Rescue provides direct fast access to business finance for viable commercial ventures using our own panel of lenders and investors. We do not act as a broker and welcome applications from brokers on behalf of their clients. The one exception is with regard to some working capital finance where we may pass the requirement to one of our panel partners.
We do not pay fees to brokers and introducers, and each broker, introducer or agent should have their own fee agreement with their clients.
Our “IMMEDIATE FINANCE” closes typically within 24 – 72 hours. Our “COMMERCIAL PROPERTY” finance closes normally between two and four weeks; and our “WORKING CAPITAL FINANCE” closes usually between one and four weeks.
We have a triple bottom-line view of business (people, planet, profits) and every transaction we close contributes to improving the quality of life of Australian children and their families.
2014
Co-Founder
Jul 2014
It is not our aim to work with everyone!
We're unconventional, far from mainstream and we have no desire to work with average. Everything we do is designed to filter out people who are either unable, or unprepared to think differently.
Sound principles underly our way of working so that the talent and creativity of the business that drives innovation can explore, create and expand with the guidance of a commercial sextant. It's more of a boundary that can be pushed rather than a bottomline that pushes back.
Being a business for good means you are a business, not a charity. Purpose, People, Planet and Profits still results in profits.
WE BELIEVE ...
We believe when you know why you are in business, and that reason is connected to something more meaningful than the size of your bank account, you attract to you people who can help you to realise everything you set your mind to achieve. Hedonist Entrepreneurs know and follow their why passionately and unreservedly; and help others ready to do the same.
PURPOSE
Our purpose is to transform how the world works, to align business and pleasure as mutually inclusive, so that more people live life and business with passion, purposefully, and collaboratively.
FOCUS
Our focus is to achieve harmony and integration of personal pleasure, fulfilment and happiness with the pursuit of commercial endeavours as a business for good.
VALUES
Our values are integrity, respect and love. Of these love is by far the most powerful. Whether you love what you do, you love your customers, your customers love you and your business, or you simply have love for all living things, everything is within reach of the person and business who loves and is loved.
WHEN IT COMES TO INTERCOURSE ...
Our communications style is open, honest and transparent. We strive to avoid attributing meaning to what happens or what is said. Instead we acknowledge what actually happens as the external manifestations of paradigms directing the internal narrative.
2013
Co-founder and Head Business Trainer
Mar 2013
Business Rocks (BsnssRcks) is a day of focussed, targeted, practical information and advice to help business people overcome their biggest challenges, capitalise on their greatest ideas and build a more successful business.
… AND it’s a day to discover the benefits of co-working hosted in the some of the best co-working space in Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania.
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