Selected Experience

A track record built on real transactions, real venues and real projects.

The engagements below are drawn from approximately 22 years across banking, business development, hospitality and project work in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Client names and commercially sensitive details are withheld as a matter of professional confidentiality.

Banking & Corporate Finance

US$100 million-plus refinancing transaction

Direct involvement, in a senior commercial banking role, in a major corporate refinancing exceeding US$100 million — spanning financial analysis, structuring input, documentation coordination and stakeholder management through to completion.

Demonstrates: institutional-scale transaction discipline and credit-committee standards.

Banking Leadership

Acting Head of Commercial Banking

Led a commercial banking function in an acting-head capacity — overseeing lending portfolios, credit quality and client relationships, and representing the bank with corporate customers and institutional stakeholders.

Demonstrates: senior decision-making experience on the approving side of the table.

Hospitality & F&B

Outlet turnaround and revenue-growth strategy

Repositioned an underperforming food-and-beverage operation: refined the concept, rebuilt the offer, introduced event-led trade and instilled margin discipline — restoring revenue momentum and commercial viability.

Demonstrates: hands-on operational turnaround, not desk-based theory.

Transactions

Investor and property transaction facilitation

Facilitated property transactions and investor engagements — introducing credible parties, supporting commercial negotiation and coordinating the professional workstreams that carry a deal to settlement.

Demonstrates: deal execution and trusted-intermediary capability.

Project Development

Large-scale tourism & mixed-use concepts

Developed development concepts for large-scale tourism, hotel, resort and mixed-use projects — including commercial positioning, preliminary structuring and investor-proposal preparation. Selected concepts remain under active development.

Demonstrates: ability to shape ambitious projects into structured propositions.

Renewable Energy

Solar business development — Fiji & PNG

Advanced renewable-energy business development across Fiji and Papua New Guinea: commercial proposals, stakeholder coordination and engagement with international technology and investment partners.

Demonstrates: emerging-sector development in relationship-driven markets.

Documentation

Business cases, proposals & investor presentations

Prepared and coordinated business cases, commercial proposals, funding applications and investor presentations across multiple sectors — documents built to survive scrutiny by banks, boards and investors.

Demonstrates: investor-grade documentation standards.

A note on evidence

Verification, respectfully handled

Where a prospective engagement warrants it, further detail and professional references can be discussed under confidentiality. We never publish client names, testimonials or figures without express approval.

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What This Means For You

Experience is only useful when it transfers.

Every engagement draws on the same underlying assets: knowing how institutions decide, knowing how Pacific businesses actually operate, and knowing the people who can move a project forward. Whether your challenge is a funding application, a struggling venue, a development concept or a market entry, the pattern of support is consistent — rigorous analysis, honest advice, disciplined documentation and active facilitation through to a result.