: About Me

Career experience over 40 years in various industries including: newspapers, television, radio, retail, fast food, lumber, insurance, consulting, and merchant banking.

Writes for various business publications on financial topics relating to small businesses which are privately owned.

Has reviewed hundreds of financial statements of private firms in Canada and the USA and developed a software suite that illustrates the liquidity problems of this class of enterprise.

"The systemic structure of privately held firms and their attending tax regimes results in zero financial utility for the repatriation of privately held shares using historical methods for 99% of the firms in this class". John Lindsay

Attained an MBA degree with a specialization in Strategy at Brookes in Oxford, UK.

My passion is ...

Sailing, the glorias bliss of wind, wave and sun

I know too much about ...

mechanics of finance for small business

My parents always told me ...

don't stop trying and trust what your eyes see

My childhood ambition ...

do as many things as possible

My favorite memory ...

Sailing off Cozumel

Why I write ...

for the feeling that comes with the lightness of being

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Economist, National Post, BBC, Jazz

My first job ...

cub reporter for a daily newspaper

My best moment ...

realization our children are on the path to happy productive lives

My inspiration ...

observing the passion of people at work in their lives

Travel > Hotel Reviews Hotel chain reviews: Yotel

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Gatwick, UK- The two things you crave after a long flight from west to east are sleep and a bed. Happily these cravings are only thirty steps away from the arrivals door at Gatwick Airport's South Terminal. Yotel' has a comfy bed and quiet cabin reserved for you. Sleep awaits. Yotel is a different kind of hotel. The rooms or cabins are micro-sized. However, if sleep is the only thing on your mind or what's left of it after sitting upright in a pressurized metal tube for eight hours, this is the place for you. This hotel has sister operations at London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol airpor...

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