About Me

In exactly 390 words :) ... Go ahead count! to validate this React code.

Intro

I am a regular guy - married with two grown-up children with a mortgage and bills to pay.

Outside of my regular day job, I established Qeetoto to support various entrepreneurial business initiatives I have had over the years; the two most successful of which have been Texas Hedge'Em - an online poker-based gambling game and ConsentWise.io - An Open Banking Testing and Consultancy Service. I am currently working on another Qeetoto project to create a community to support workers in the Gig Economy. I shall post more about this later but if you are interested now, please message me.

On the Gig Economy ... I love speaking to anyone about anything in this space so, if you share this interest, or have a 'Passion Project' that you would like to collaborate on with me or my colleagues, please connect with me on LinkedIn and let's chat.

Some history

  • I will populate this if you ping me on LinkedIn

I like

  • Pobbing. Pobbing is a word I coined for doing anything that makes you happy. Fun fact: My daughter thought it was a real word until the age of 17. (Sorry Eleanor!)

Travel / Geography

  • In 1968, Born in Farnborogh, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
  • In 1972, Moved to Basildon, Essex, UK. (All though I would not have known as I was only four.)
  • In 1997, Spent a year in Corvalis, Oregon, US. This was part of my year exchange program with University.
  • In 2001, Moved to Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, UK.
  • In 2022, I still live in Bishops Stortford and am not looking to move any time soon :).

Fun facts

I dream of

  • My children living long, fulfilling, and happy lives
  • One of my ventures enabling me to become financially independent
  • World peace (of course!)

Companies that I admire

  • World Economic Forum Absolutely every post is truly inspirational and boost my faith in humanity
  • Fairphone A fantasitc, well designed, and engineered sustainable product that does not compromise on functionality or quality
  • G-Games - Its what Qeetoto should have been had I executed better.

And from people I know that either (1) Have built from a 'Passion Projects', (2) Just has a great product, (3) Is a throughly decent person or company or >best of all< matches all of these.