User:Porcupine

Profile: Entrepreneurial, high level strategic thinker and doer. Porcupine has a Professional accountancy background, with audit, consulting and investigatory/legal experience. Has a deep background in international financial mechanics and business start ups. He is a trained investigator and business analyst with wide ranging team skills and broad international network. Complete set of skills and experience for business development and project based problem solving. Strongest and most recent experience is as MD and Business Development Director in interactive entertainment (computer and video games development)  History: Qualified Chartered Accountant, 13 Years experience including 5 years in forensic accounting and litigation support. 5 years as entrepreneurial MD and 1 year in cross border business development. Qualified chartered accountant, 13 years at a major firm (Top 4) 1986 to 1999, since 2000 Porcupine has created and run small computer games companies and been involved in all aspects of management, from inception to closure, including finance, fund raising, contract management and personnel issues. Board level positions in games companies in 4 groups. His achievements in the industry were recognised by a board position on the computer and video games trade association in 2004. Porcupine last helped develop an international outsourcing business with partners in the UK, Ukraine and India for the cost effective production of computer and video games.

Currently seeks: to tackle the impossible problems, in positions in which his broad and deep experience of all areas of financial, legal, management and operations of small to medium high technology teams and companies can bring value to their investors and managers. Really enjoys growing business where none existed before. Especially in turnaround and investment opportunities in the communications, media and interactive entertainment sectors worldwide

Does not want to: work in areas where repetitive administrative tasks and established thinking prevent business from growing.

Key experience: Entrepreneurial start up and growth. Formation, promotion, finance, legal and operational management of computer games developer in UK. Porcupine raised two rounds of equity finance for group, closed 6 development deals, and delivered 3 titles to global publishers. Porcupine benefits from 13 years in audit and investigations, including some of the largest and most complex investigations in the world.

Specialties: Start ups, business development, team building, finance, business process re-engineering and re-imagining, turnarounds, media partnerships, and software development agreements.