. John Fries – Non-Executive Chairman B. Comm (Hons); FCPA; MAICD; JP

John Fries has more than 45 years experience in finance, accountancy and administration. He is Honorary Treasurer and Deputy Chairman of Australian Red Cross NSW, as well as serving as a director on another not-for-profit organisation and other private companies in which he has an interest. He was also Deputy Chairman of Tribeca Learning Limited when it was a public listed company.John was formerly Finance Director of Vodaphone Group in Australia, and prior to that Finance Director of McIlwraith McEacharn Limited-Oakbridge Limited and Great Northern Mining Limited (all public listed companies).

For 12 years from early 1970’s, John was a Management Consultant in both London (Coopers and Lybrand) and Sydney. He has an Honours degree in Commerce from UNSW, is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and recently a Member, Association of Corporate Treasurers (UK). He is also a Justice of the Peace.

. Peter John Spann – Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Freeman Fox

Peter is the founder of the Freeman Fox group of companies and is a well known public speaker and presenter. Peter has had a wealth of experience in business development over the past 17 years and has served on the boards and/or advised a number of private and public companies.

Prior to his establishment of the Freeman Fox Group, Peter had extensive roles in developing businesses to success.

In his role as General Manager – Consulting of one of Australia’s leading (at the time) business development and marketing consultancies to small to medium enterprises, Peter was responsible for developing business and marketing plans for companies ranging in size from small companies with a few million dollars in turnover to multi-national corporations. It was during this time he learnt how to evaluate the factors that make businesses successful, skills he has put to great success in his investing and financial advising.

In setting up his own consultancy, SMAARTco, he was called upon by business owners to create business plans for finance, business development and succession planning.

Peter has published a number of books including ‘Wealth Magic’ a national best seller, ‘Little Pot of Gold’ and ‘How You Could Build a $10 million Property Portfolio in Just 10 Years’ (all published by Harper Collins), ‘Business Power’, and ‘Marketing Genius’. He is the creator and presenter of ‘Wealth Magic’, ‘Instant Income’ and ‘Super Trader’ seminars, manuals and audios. Peter’s seminars have been attended by many thousands of Australians.

He developed the highly successful ‘8 Power Performance Stock Selection Criteria’ (8P’s) and the strangely named but profitable ‘Magic Moo Cow’ (MMC) process of using derivatives to generate cash returns from a portfolio of optionable Blue Chip shares, which has been used as the basis for Freeman Fox’s portfolio management approach.

He has been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles.

Peter brings to the Company extensive experience in business development, marketing and investment.

. Director and Company Secretary Howard Woolcott

Howard has an economics degree from The University of Sydney with majors in revenue law and accounting. He is also a Certified Practising Accountant. His career has included positions in merchant banking in the UK and the finance industry in Australia.

He was a founder and past director of listed public company Tribeca Learning Limited, a Registered Training Organisation specialising in education services for the financial planning industry.

He has been working with the Freeman Fox Group of companies for the past eighteen months and is the Group’s Chief Operating Officer.