Fortix Business Panel
Fortix is the brainchild of Paul Faix. Parenting and upbringing is done with the help of a group of smart and willing people who bring out the best in us. Our grateful thanks to the business panel listed below for the valued advice they cheerfully share.
Allan McLean
Allan believes his 28 years experience in commercial banking and finance is the ideal background for his current role as owner and Managing Director of Mint Settlements, one of WA’s best known Settlement Agencies. His extensive business background in WA also includes real estate sales and management as well as part owner and hands on project manager of a start up IT company.
Allan is also an active community contributor. He is a member and on the board of the Rotary Club of Heirisson, as well as a member of the Food & Beverage Committee of the Western Australian Club. He is a member of and a past chairman of the Junior Chamber International WA Senate Group, has been president of BNI High Lander and was an active participant in an ex officio capacity on the council of the Australian Institute of Conveyancers (WA Division) and sits on their Business Development Committee.
Dr Liz Pattison
Liz Pattison is a strategic planning consultant and formed her own company, Liz Pattison Pty Ltd in 1989. Since that time Liz has developed strategic plans for numerous organisations, focusing especially in the government, educational, religious and not-for-profit sectors, working with Boards, Councils and Chief Executives locally, nationally and internationally. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Master of Information Systems.
Liz joined the Rotary Club of Heirisson in 1993 and has served in many roles for the Club and Rotary District including President and Project Leader to build Headquarters youth facility in Leederville. Her Rotary service is recognised by twice being awarded the prestigious Paul Harris Fellow. She is a Board member and Trustee of the Healing Hearts Foundation and Coordinator for the Consortium to build a Garden of Reflection in Kings Park. She was a member of the Board of the Headquarters Youth Facility over a five year period.
Sherryn McBride
Sherryn is a freelance marketer, copywriter, trainer and the Principal of Perth based marketing consultancy Marketing Talk. Her knowledge is drawn from 25 years managing state branches for national/multinational corporations and consultancies from market research, philanthropic marketing, mining equipment, electrical consumer goods and arts management to community partnership brokering.
She lectures in small business start up, delivers workshops for Curtin University's Growth and Entrepreneurship Unit and serves on the executive committee of the Melville-Cockburn Chamber of Commerce. Her business was featured in the West Australian Business News and is published as a "Success Story" on the Small Business Development Corporation website. Sherryn is currently creating a series of marketing books and CDs for the time poor business owner.
Akram (Ak) Sabbagh
Ak joined Shirlaws in January 2002. He is a Shareholder and Board Director in the Australian business. Ak’s specialty is helping clients see beyond the problems of detail so they can develop a broader vision for where their business is going. He coaches businesses in a variety of industries including bank and finance, accounting, property development, legal, biotechnology, real estate, engineering and construction, advertising, hospitality, IT, and Manufacturing.
Ak has over two decades of experience with large, medium and small businesses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, a Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors, has studied in the Macquarie Graduate School of Management’s Creative Business Development Program and has a level III Certificate in Financial Markets from the Securities Institute of Australia. Ak has also been an active member of Rotary International since 1991, and was President of his Club in 2005-2006.
Albert De Gouveia
Albert has 27 years of business experience in the retail, sales and manufacturing fields. As a First Class Accounts consultant, and bookkeeper he understands small business and its associated obstacles and importance of accurate bookkeeping to enable the owner to do what he does best i.e. running his own business and not being concerned with bookkeeping chores and deadlines.
He also understands the importance that relevant information must be available to make critical business decisions a lot easier and based on true facts. Albert can set up a system in MYOB or QuickBooks to get you up and running or train staff for you if you want to do it yourself or he can do them for you on a full time or temporary basis. BAS and GST setup as part of MYOB and QuickBooks will make BAS return time less stressful. Reports and explanations of reports can be done on an easy to understand basis and with a smile.
Paul Griffin
Paul was engaged in the retail industry for 45 years before retiring in 2003. His career entailed 6 years as a trainee manager with Woolworths, 4 years with family country department store and then 35 years in his own successful retail clothing chain. His womens fashion shops were at Northlands, Warwick Grove, West Perth, Morley City, South Hedland and Perth City. He also had a menswear store at South Hedland for 19 years.
In 1981 Paul gained a Certificate in Real Estate Management and in 1989-90 completed 2 years in Bachelor of Business (Valuation and Land Economy) course at Curtin University. Paul has since developed property in Broome and East Perth. As a long standing community participant, Paul is a Charter Member of the Heirisson Rotary Club (since 1990), Foundation Member of the WA Retailers Association and former Vice-President
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