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There are no boundaries to what one can achieve, it is all just the matter of dedication. A spark that lights up the entire path and leads you through, a spark that many fondly call belief.

What does it take to be a great leader? Just the leadership? The hard toiling years are generally ignored when one reaches the top. But those are the years that make people the great leaders they are today.

Telling the tale of such leaders, who with their hard work and dedication are inspiring many is The Enterprise World’s issue of The Inspiring CEO’s to Watch in 2020. With their inspiring stories, these leaders have proved to be a beacon of light for many.

Featuring for the Cover Story is Robbie Antonio, the Founder and CEO of Resident Holdings Group, is a real estate developer, tech entrepreneur, and art patron. He is also the Founder and CEO of Antonio Development in New York and the Founder and CEO of Revolution Precrafted-which is the sole PropTech unicorn start-up in the South-East Asia and also the first billion-dollar start-up company in Philippines.

Currently serving as the CEO of Lomiko Metals Inc, a company focused on the exploration and development of minerals for the new green economy such as lithium and graphite and also has a 100% interest in Lomiko Technologies Inc., an investor in technology and manufacturer of electronic products.

Leading Ultra Tune is Sean Buckley, which is an industry leader in its technical field. Sean is Executive Chairman at The Ultra Group of Companies which includes (among others) Ultra Tune and Ultra Thoroughbreds – one of Australia’s largest and most successful Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding enterprises. Sean is a skilled entrepreneur with a diverse range of interests including sports, business and new technologies.

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Leaders in Spotlight Cover Story FeatureBorn in the Philippines, Robbie Antonio is the Founder and CEO of the Resident Holdings Group, the Founder and CEO of Antonio Development in New York and also the Founder and CEO of Revolution Precrafted-which is the sole PropTech unicorn start-up in the South-East Asia and also the first billion-dollar start-up company in Philippines.

Antonio is also the producer of Revolution Precrafted, a Manilabased series of prefabricated structures by other designers such as Daniel Libeskind, Sou Fujimoto, and Lenny Kravitz. Revolution Precrafted was recognized as the first ‘Unicorn’ start-up in the Philippines, in 2017. Antonio has overseen the development of over 45 million square feet of real estate in the Philippines and the United States.

Currently serving as the CEO of Lomiko Metals Inc, Paul is involved in planning and implementation phases of creating new businesses and restructuring of organizations. He also works with pre-IPO companies and is also the CEO of Lomiko Technologies, VP Business Development of

Promethieus Technologies, SHD Smart Home Devices and Director of Graphene ESD. His latest work has been to spearheading investment activities under Lomiko Technologies.

Jeff LoCastro, CEO/Founder of Neener Analytics was one of the first to connect affinity and behaviour to understand non-linear correlations. Based on his ability to extract unique insights, Jeff pioneered the first ever effective CPA (cost-per-action) model which became the basis of all future social analytics models, as well as the foundation for all social media monetization.

Founded by Marc. E Rippen, Alertgy is a start-up medical device company that has developed ground-breaking technology to non-invasively detect glucose within the body. Founded in 2016

by Marc Rippen, Alertgy uses dielectric methods to give real-time glucose measurements for people with diabetes or those who are pre-diabetic and monitoring their blood sugar.

Leading Ultra Tune is Sean Buckley, which is an industry leader in its technical field. Sean is

Executive Chairman at The Ultra Group of Companies which includes (among others) Ultra Tune and Ultra Thoroughbreds – one of Australia’s largest and most successful Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding enterprises. Sean is a skilled entrepreneur with a diverse range of interests including sports, business and new technologies.

Interview with The Enterprise WorldMarina Tognetti, who herself is fond of learning new languages, founded mYngle end 2007.

Originally from Italy, she has worked in different countries and speaks several languages, Italian, English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and some Mandarin. In an Interview with The Enterprise World, she unfolds the journey of mYngle.

Using this to accelerate the organizational performance, Steve Burke’s DigiBlu has helped many organizations transform from just traditional workspaces to being digitally abled. In an interview with The Enterprise World, Steve Burke unfolds the journey of DigiBlu.

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e seldom come across a personality that is willing to do it all, and succeed at it, in spite of the challenges. It takes a huge amount of courage, not to mention the multiple strategies to operate a broad range of businesses. The confidence to be so relentlessly oneself is a quality possessed by rare. Some people tend to hide it, while some people are just effortless at it. Those are the people who fear nothing. Nothing can stop them, and even if there was something stopping them, they would find a way to get past it!

Featuring on for the cover story of The Enterprise World’s ‘The Inspiring CEO’s to watch 2020’ is one such personality -- Robbie Antonio: a rebel with a cause.

Southeast Asian-based global holding company of technologically-driven start-ups with a strategy of global expansion and interests in the fields of real estate and property development, leisure and hospitality, social media marketing, franchising, fashion and beauty retailing, fintech, EdTech, and tech-based legal, medical, and accounting services. Its flagship company is Revolution Precrafted, a supplier of traditional and prefabricated homes and structures with footprints in 31 countries in Asia, Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and The Caribbean. Revolution Precrafted produces prefabricated structures by world renown designers such as Daniel Libeskind, Sou Fujimoto, and Lenny Kravitz.

Born in the Philippines, Robbie Antonio is the Founder and CEO of Resident Holdings Group, the Founder and CEO of Antonio Development in New York and also the Founder and CEO of Revolution Precrafted -- the sole PropTech unicorn start-up in SouthEast Asia and also the first billion dollar start-up company in the Philippines. Robbie Antonio is a real estate developer, tech entrepreneur, and art patron. Being one of the biggest stalwarts in the field of consumer branding, he has worked with various celebrities and influencers for worldwide projects representing nineteen (19) companies in the fields of property, e-commerce, home accessories, beauty, fashion, and , jewelry, food franchising, electronics and gaming.

Boasting over 130 celebrities, artists, and designers with a consolidated social media reach of at least 100 million, Resident Holdings Group offers a wide selection of quality homes, furniture, fashion accessories, skin care, cosmetics, apparel, food and service franchises and digital services curated by luminaries in the fields of art, architecture, entertainment, music, and fashion.

The company has presence in key industries, offering value-added products and services envisioned and conceptualized by their celebrity partners, and manufactured to perfection by strategic partners. Resident Holdings Group is one of the fastest growing companies in Asia with almost 19 companies under its name.

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under this fast-growing conglomerate.

What makes Resident Holdings Group unique is the quality of its products and services. The company offers effective partnerships with the cream of the crop whether in art, architecture or fashion. Resident Holdings also engages top celebrities worldwide to give their imprints on products that are quality but affordable, and easily accessible via social media platforms.

Other companies under Resident Holdings are 19 companies - Renegade, Renaissance, Reach, Rebel, Radical, Regal, Radiant, Replenish, Range, Revolt, RACE, RIPE, Resurgent, Reality, Relove, Roar, Rascal, Right, and Rogue - involved in franchising and licensing, furnishing and decorating, social media, content curator and e-commerce, eyewear, affordable fashion, jewelry, beauty, nutrition and wellness, digital media and live entrepreneurship, membership card supporting local small businesses, game field direct selling, media production, celebrity preloved apparels, accessories, furniture, and cars, online pet store, mom and kids’ toys and apparel.

RENEGADE BRANDING CONCEPTS is a one-stop shop for possible retail and business opportunities, in partnership with some of the biggest celebrities and influencers in the Philippines and the world. It offers unique, out of the ordinary, licensing ideas on food and service franchising. shopping, beauty, fitness and wellness, fashion and home design with the main goal of offering

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Range Electronics is a celebrity curated accessible cell phone provider and marketplace app that helps merge function with fashion, featuring cool, hip styles, and branding. Range Electronics’ products double as a gateway for people to make extra income.

Revolt Celebrity Games is an interactive cross-platform gaming company that features celebrities and an immersive, best-in-breed gaming experience. Watch your favorite celebrities while they play and stream your favorite games!

Reach Medium is a platform that specializes in creating contents, promotions, video greets, event and party invites from your favorite celebrities and influencers. The company aims to help people reach

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out to their favorite Renegades by creating video greets and shout outs through the platform, advertise and promote events and parties by reaching a larger audience, with the support of partner celebrities and influencers. The features aim to provide the service to connect with our partner Renegades.

RESURGENT CORPORATION is the direct marketing unit of Resident Holdings. It offers income opportunities to members. It offers quality cosmetics and supplements.

Resurgent Corporation creates income opportunities for everyone, including OFWs, homemakers and business-minded by offering direct marketing services to members and people in their personal networks.

RENAISSANCE TOUCH is a first-of-its-kind online marketplace for furnishing and decorating interior spaces with the inspiration from celebrities, top interior designers, artists and fashion designers.

REBEL SPECS DESIGN offers more than the usual pair of eyewear to the market. Instead of the generic pieces you often see on the shelves, this business unit sells eyewear pairs personally curated by celebrities and influencers for their particular design and style.

RELEVANT MEDIUM is Southeast Asia’s first ever integrated celebrity-inspired marketplace designed to connect modern-day influencers with their fans in a one stop shop for e-commerce, curated brands, and virtual-in-life channel engagement.

An entrepreneur opens up opportunities for growth by providing them employment and also opportunities for the growth of their own businesses. An entrepreneur is also a contributor to the growth and development of communities and the national economy. Robbie Antonio, the Founder and CEO of Resident Holdings, is a pioneer and a game changer.

Hailing from a family exposed to the world of real estate, he wanted to shake things up and change the landscape of the industry. He developed Revolution Precrafted, a company that combines the elements of art and fashion with real estate. By creating designdriven prefabricated and traditional homes, he wanted to democratize design and make it accessible to a wider audience.

The Founder - Robbie’s urge to revolutionize started early, in his school days.

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THE IDEA IS TO LEVERAGE THE INFLUENCE AND POPULARITY OF OUR PARTNER (CELEBRITY) TO CREATE MARKETABLE OF BUSINESS CONCEPTS THAT YOU CAN SIMPLY ACQUIRE AND IMPLEMENT.

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prospective entrepreneurs and customers alike with a convenient and worry-free experience.

Renegade already counts boxing icon and Senator Emmanuel “Manny” D. Pacquiao, super model Helena Christensen, and designer Camilla Staerk, among its partner celebrities. clientele. Renegade Branding Concepts is a natural extension and progression of the real estate branding experience from Revolution Precrafted and all branded projects the company has done prior to this. To date, it has launched over 20 curated food kiosks in the Philippines and its plans to launch more in the coming months, with a forward-looking goal of expanding into nearby Asian territories. Even though Renegade Branding Concepts is still in its initial stages, Mr. Antonio has made plans for an aggressive overseas expansion.

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He has tapped global and local celebrities, designers and artists to create homes that can be built at faster speeds, and at a fraction of the cost.

At present, the company boasts of big-ticket projects such as Batulao Artscapes, the World’s First Livable Art Park, and Revolution Flavorscapes, the World’s First Livable Food Park. At present nearly 300 homes are already under construction in those two developments.

Revolution Precrafted has also delivered units to private customers.

With Revolution Precrafted creating a mark in the real estate landscape, Robbie decided to try his hand in the field of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).

“I don’t want to rest on my laurels.

Instead I always try to improve myself and the company. I also try to explore new things that I can accomplish.

Being an entrepreneur by heart he decided to revolutionize the real estate business by introducing the ideas that no one had explored before. With this intention in mind, he started with Revolution Precrafted, where they introduced luxury and art into what used to be a very basic need for quick home construction Under the Resident Holdings Group, Robbie has established companies engaged not only in real estate and property development but also in leisure and hospitality, social media marketing, franchising, fashion and beauty retailing. Revolution Precrafted is the flagship company under Resident. Among them, too, is Renegade Branding Concepts —a onestop shop marketplace and destination

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for franchising and licensing concepts— in partnership with some of the biggest celebrities and influencers.

“These are relatively new businesses.

But like what I did with Revolution Precrafted, I want to offer products that stand out from the rest. I want products that are celebrity-curated, whether it is a pair of eyewear, or a bottle of perfume,” Robbie added.

And to achieve everything that Robbie has, one needs not only great leadership, but a lot of grit, determination and luck.

Robbie also credits his success to a team of accomplished and over-achieving team that keeps up with his entrepreneurial ambitions.

Antonio wants his Team to always aim for excellence in anything they do.

Being the leader, Robbie imparts in them valuable knowledge and experiences that he has gained through personal encounters so that they will also be inspired to aim for the moon.

“Mediocrity is a dead word for me and my team.”

Antonio is also the Founder and CEO of Revolution Precrafted, the first and only PropTech unicorn startup in Southeast Asia and the first startup billion-dollar company in the Philippines. It is a global supplier of traditional and prefabricated homes and structures with footprints in Asia, The Caribbean and other key regions.

Revolution Precrafted is Antonio’s attempt to disrupt the real estate industry with notable innovations after having worked with Pei Partners and the late I.M.Pei for Centurion— the first ground up residential condominium in

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the world. He also served as the Managing Director of Century Properties where he conceived and spearheaded US $2.1 billion of branded developments with the Trump Organization, Armani Casa, Versace Home, Philippe Starck, Missoni Home, and Paris Hilton.

In 2016, Antonio received an award and was included in the list of Top 100 Art collectors in the world. In May 2018, he was named “Real Estate Personality of the Year” by Property Guru. In the same year, Antonio was also cited in the 2018 Mavericks Report by Built Worlds as one of the “25 Pioneers who’ve Transformed the Built Industry.”

Robbie Antonio’s experience in brand marketing has reached new heights with the launch of his umbrella company- the Resident Holdings. The Resident Holdings Group hosts fast-growing marketplaces and e-commerce companies. These include companies like Renegade Branding Concepts, Renaissance Touch, Relevant Medium, and Reach Medium.

Renegade Branding Concepts is a one-stop shop for franchising and licensing concepts which offers an unparalleled list of possible retail and business opportunities in partnership with some of the biggest celebrities while Renaissance Touch is a first-of-its-kind online celebrity/influencer e-commerce site for furnishing and decorating interior spaces. Relevant Medium is a platform that enables social media influencers to create and monetize content while Reach

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Medium is an aggregated Key Opinion Leader (KOL) content curator, e-commerce, and traffic engine. With the success of these companies, Antonio slowly began to unveil his other celebritydesigned e-commerce and eservices companies that included: Rebel Specs Design—a celebrity-branded eyewear e-commerce company that features sleek, topnotch design with unbeatable prices, Radical Couture Concepts—a company that features the latest celebrity backed fashion trends at affordable prices, Regal Jewelry Selection—a curated e-commerce jewelry brand that sells gorgeous celebrity branded rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets, Radiant Beauty Selection—an e-commerce company that provides beauty products with categories, Replenish Corporation—the premiere celebrity-inspired nutrition and vitamin e-supplements company, Range Hi Tech Corporation—a celebrity branded cell phone provider and marketplace app that helps merge function with fashion, and Revolt Games—an interactive cross-platform gaming company that features celebrity branding and an immersive, best-in-breed gaming experience. Resurgent Corporation is a premiere direct selling company in the market featuring (seven) 7 product packages and an interactive app that gamifies, intensifies, and ultimately commercializes the entire marketing experience, Relove Collections—a celebrity curated online shop for pre-loved apparels, accessories, furniture and fixtures, and also cars from our celebrity Renegades, Roaring Pets Company—an online one-stop

shop for your daily pet needs, the company sells foods to vitamins and apparels to fixtures that are branded by celebrity pet owners and Rascal Kids Collection—a collection of mom and kids’ toys, apparels, stuff and necessities inspired by various influencer babies and kids. RACE is a digital media and live entrepreneurship platform that helps broach traditional education with pragmatic, money-making skills, RIPE Discount Card—a discount membership card that let everyday consumers buy more for cheaper and helps support local small businesses.

ART Robbie Antonio is one of the youngest and most prolific collectors of international modern and post-war contemporary art.

Because of his accomplishments as an art collector, he received numerous awards from different organizations. In 2014, Artnet recognized Antonio as one of the “20 of the World’s Most Innovative Art Collectors,” while in 2015, he became part of Artnet’s “Top 200 Art Collectors Worldwide.”

• “Top 10 Young Art Collectors” by Larry’s List • “25 Pioneers Who’ve Transformed the Built Industry” • “12 Young Art Collectors to Watch in 2016” by Artnet • “Real Estate Personality of the Year” by Property Guru • “20 of the World’s Most Innovative Art Collectors” by Artnet

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• Forbes “Philippines’ 50 Richest 2017” (youngest person) • “50 of the World’s Most Exciting Collectors” by Modern Painters • “Art Power List: Movers and Shakers in the Art World” by Harper’s Bazaar “The World’s Top 100 Art Collectors for 2016” by Artnet Throughout his entrepreneurial journey, Robbie Antonio has received many awards and accolades for his impeccable work.

Some of those include• “Top 200 Art Collectors Worldwide in 2015” by Artnet .

Artnet also recognized him as one of the “12 Young Art Collectors to Watch in 2016,” as well as one of the “The World’s Top 100 Art Collectors for 2016.” Antonio’s passion for art has also led him to collaborate with artists such as Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami,

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Marina Abramovich, Maurizio Catellan, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, Zhang Huan, David La Chapelle, Marilyn Minter, and Julian Opie. Apart from this, Robbie also loves to invest his time in supporting causes that are close to his heart, like Resilience

by Design, a UN campaign which supports the processes of reconstruction in areas that are affected by natural disasters and climate change. He is also among the Board Directors of Operation Smile Philippines Foundation. This is a medical charity that supports hundreds and thousands of free surgeries for the children and young adults in developing countries who are born with facial deformities like cleft lip, cleft palate and many more of such.

Personalities” by the Philippine Star • “Top 40 Rising Stars of Real Estate Globally” by Institutional Investor Magazine at the age of 28 • “50 Under 50” by Town & Country • “The Collectors: 40 Under 40” By Apollo Magazine

• “Real Estate All stars in New York” by Real Estate Weekly, New York • “25 Most Influential

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A.Paul Gill Spearheading Lomiko’s Way to Success

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he graphite market is predicted to hit $ 27 Billion by 2025. With demands for graphite from various industries, the market growth of graphite has been exponential.

The times are changing, and there are demands for electric vehicles, and there is also a rise in the commercial applications of graphene. Also the growing demand of energy storage will drive the growth of the graphite market.

Led by CEO A.Paul Gill, Lomiko Metals is focused on the exploration and development of minerals for the new green economy such as lithium and graphite and also has a 100% interest in Lomiko Technologies Inc., an investor in technology and manufacturer of electronic products.

The CompanyLomiko Metals Inc. is a Canadabased, exploration-stage company.

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development of resource properties that contain minerals for the new green economy. Its mineral properties include the 80% owned La Loutre and Lac Des Iles Graphite Properties and the 100% owned Quatre Milles Graphite Property.

Who We Are • Lomiko Metals (LMR.V) is a Canada-based, exploration-stage company.

The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of resource properties that contain minerals for the new green economy.

• The Company has completed its initial option and has earned its 30% interest in the La Loutre Flake and Lac des iles Flake Graphite Properties, Quebec.

• The company is working on its Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) which, if: successful, adds considerable value to the company.

• 20% holder of Promethieus Technologies Inc. www.promethieus.com.

• Founded in 1987; Headquartered in Vancouver B.C.; Seasoned and Motivated Management Team.

The company has discovered high-grade graphite at its La Loutre Property in Quebec and is working toward a Pre-Economic Assessment (PEA) that will increase its current indicated resource of 4.1 Mt of 6.5% Cg to over 10 Mt of 10%+ Cg. Paul Gill, CEO of Lomiko Metals has stated that the exploration has been completed and it is showing two different areas of deposits: the graphene battery zone and the refractory zone. The consolidated 43-101 resource estimate is expected soon. According to Mr. Gill, the material at Lomiko’s discovery is of similar or better quality than the material at the IMERYS Carbon Graphite Mine 53 km to the Northwest and 100 kms from the IMERYS processing facility at the Port February 2020

The Inspiring CEO’s to Watch 2020 IMERYS. This is very significant because everyone has an understanding that the IMERYS Carbon Graphite Mine is shortly going to run out of mineable ore and needs replacement.

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of Montreal. The IMERYS mine has a mine closure plan for 2022 and needs replacement. Located near a producing mine with an experienced workforce with excellent infrastructure and year around working capability, La Loutre property has great potential to become the next graphite mine.

Lomiko Metals has been working in the battery materials space for about six years now. Lomiko Metals has focused on graphite because that is the material that makes up the anode of a lithium-ion battery, which is the main power source for most electric vehicles. They have discovered a very good deposit of material in Quebec and now with 170 drill holes, are showing two different areas of near surface mineralization. One is called the graphene battery zone and the other is the refractory zone. They have finished the refractory zone drilling in 2019 and will be going to a consolidated 43-101 resource estimate shortly.

The discovery they’ve just made at the refractory zone is similar or of better quality than the material or the grades that are being mined at www.theenterpriseworld.com

There are other very relevant companies in the space, Nouveau Monde, which is TSXV: NOU, Mason Graphite, which is TSXV: LLG, Graphite One, which is TSXV: GPH and Northern Graphite, TSXV: NGH. But all of those that are post pre-economic assessment and have major flaws.

Mason needs to build infrastructure. Nouveau Monde has sulphur in their particular deposit, which adds cost. Graphite One is located in the Aleutians Islands in Alaska, which is a very difficult mining jurisdiction because of the weather and Northern Graphite has low grade which may hamper the economics.

But Lomiko is in a Goldilocks zone, located just north of the Port of Montreal and just south of the IMERYS Carbon Graphite Mines.

Lomiko has a very distinct advantage because there is now a North American strategy being put in place for battery materials, which includes lithium, graphite and cobalt.

A Few Highlights and the Road AheadThe highlight for Lomiko was finding one strike length was 110 meters, with grades of 14.5%, which are double of what they are mining at the Imerys Carbon Graphite Mine. Imagine mineralization taller than the Statue of Liberty and obviously there’s not just one drill hole that’s only six 17

‘‘ What makes us different from other companies in this particular sector is that we are located only 53 kilometres from the only operating graphite mine in North America, the Imerys Carbon and Graphite Mine. inches wide there. It is probably indicative of a larger area of mineralization.

preliminary economic assessment, which will put a dollar value on that particular deposit.

ESD. Through AJS Management Corp., he also provides advice to private sector clients.

Lomiko has also done many other drill holes and have confirmed a mineralization zone that extends for 900 meters, from the Northwest to the Southeast at the refractory zone and also a width of about 400 meters.

A.Paul Gill- The Leader-

His latest work has been to spearheading investment activities under Lomiko Technologies. On December 4, 2014, Lomiko created Graphene Energy Storage Devices after it received confirmation from Strategic Alliance Partner Graphene Labs Inc. of New York that the Research Group at Stony Brook University received a prototype graphene super capacitor and filed a patent. Lomiko owns 40% of the new company and will focus on research, development and commercialization of this exciting new product.

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Currently serving as the CEO of Lomiko Metals, Paul is involved in planning and implementation phases of creating new businesses and restructuring of organizations.

He also works with pre-IPO companies and is also the CEO of Lomiko Technologies, VP Business Development of Promethieus

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n the state of Illinois, Chicago is one of the most populous cities.

Chicago was formed as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and then saw a rapid growth in the 19th century.

In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed most of the city and left about 100, 000 people homeless. But, the city made a synergetic effort to rebuild all the destroyed property. With this development in the construction, Chicago then also saw a growth in its population in the following decades.

Today, Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications and transportation. Chicago is also the site for creation of the first standardized futures contracts. Today, it is one of the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world.

In the United States, the gross metropolitan product of Chicago is the third largest, which is about $670.5 billion. Chicago shows a high level of diversification and has been rated to have the most balanced economy in the United States. In the year 2014, the Chicago metropolitan area also recorded the highest number of new or expanded corporate facilities in the United States.

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manufacturing, food processing, printing, publishing etc.

Headquarters of some of the prominent food companies are based in Chicago. These include Quaker Oats, US Foods, and McDonalds etc. The city has also been a hub for the retail sector since the early development. Not just the industries, but Chicago also ranks third in the world as a convention destination. A number of conventions are held in Chicago every year.

The Culture and Contemporary Life of ChicagoThe city is also known to be the base of commercial operations of industrialists like John Crerar, John Whitfield Bunn, Richard Teller Crane, Marshall Field, John Farwell, and Julius Rosenwald and many more who have laid the foundation of global industry.

Chicago is also known to a home to 12 Fortune Global 500 companies and 17 Financial Times 500 companies.

Chicago is considered as a major world financial center and is also the second-largest central business district in the United States. It is a home to Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and also has prime financial and futures exchanges.

These include the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (the Merc) along with the Chicago Board of Trade is owned by Chicago’s CME Group.

The city is also a home to Dow 30 companies and also the aerospace giant Boeing that moved its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001.

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Apart from being a home to several headquarters of prominent industries, Chicago is also a cultural centre. The city’s waterfront location and the vibrant nightlife have attracted people from over the world. Chicago has several deluxe dining options and also ethnic restaurants across districts.

Some of the famous restaurants include the Little Italy along the Taylor Street, the Chinatown in Armour Square, the Little Seoul in Albany Park and Desi area along the Devon Avenue.

also situated in the same neighbourhood. There also is the Museum of Science and Industry.

Chicago- A Tourist’s FavouriteAs of 2014, Chicago was a hotspot for around 50.17 million domestic leisure travellers, 11.09 million domestic business travellers, and 1.308 million overseas travellers.

What draws tourists around the world to Chicago are the upscale shopping centres like the Magnificent Mile and State Street.

But it is not just about shopping, the several restaurants around the city are a food lover’s paradise.

The Willis Towers is another famous destination for the tourists.

There is an observation desk on the Willis Towers which is open for the tourists all year round. People generally like enjoying the high overlooking views of Chicago and Lake Michigan form up there.

Downtown Chicago is most famous for the city’s financial, governmental, cultural and commercial institutions. “The Loop” is the city’s eight by five block area which is encircled by elevated rail tracks. The areas adjoining The Loop have many famous skyscrapers, restaurants, museums, shopping centres and many more.

The other thing that attracts the tourists is the cuisine of Chicago.

The city offers a wide variety of different cuisines that reflect its ethnic and working class roots.

Some of the dishes that are renowned nationally include the deep-dish pizza, the Chicago style hot-dogs, the Italian beef sandwich which is a distinctly Chicago style sandwich and many more. The city is also a home to one of the world’s most decorated restaurants which is a recipient of three Michelin stars, Alinea. Many of the well-known chefs have had their restaurants in Chicago.

The Hyde Park is a neighbourhood in the South Side, which is also the home of former President, Barack Obama. The University of Chicago, world’s first ranked university is

Chicago is thus not just an important economic centre, but also a famous cultural centre in the United States with so much more to explore!

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Marina come te la passi. That is How are you doing in Italian. Imagine you are in Italy for some work or you are there as a student and someone ask you this and you have no clue how to respond to that. That is how language works. It is the basic way to communicate with people. If you don’t know the language there could be a language barrier.

Marina Tognetti, who herself is fond of learning new languages, founded mYngle end 2007.

Originally from Italy, she has worked in dierent countries and speaks several languages, Italian, English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and some Mandarin.

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Tognetti Language plays an important aspect in our everyday lives. With mYngle, Marina Tognetti is helping people to get a better communication. So when we asked, what exactly is mYngle, she saidmYngle is a company that offers customized language training programs through video conferencing in 45 different languages anytime, anywhere. Our lessons are one-on-one, with highly qualified native coaches and related to the job-position of the learner.

Our virtual classrooms enable learners to take classes 24/7.

We are the solution for busy professionals who need language training to be successful in their international business, and for Companies that want great learning results and a transparent and controllable learning process to make their investment a success.

It is the highway or no way! On what challenges mYngle had to face, Marina saysBuilding a business from scratch is always challenging, building a tech start-up disrupting an industry as traditional as that of education, is exponentially more challenging (especially more than 10 years ago, when we started). There are all sorts of resistances - those of a still immature market- that you have to bypass: from the stereotypes www.theenterpriseworld.com

Leading the Language Land consumers have in their minds to the (conservative) opinions of people around you.

There is always the sun after a dark night. There always comes a point that triggers the growth of the company. For mYngle it wasIt was when we changed from the initial business model to a completely different one, which is the mYngle we are now. We had launched mYngle as a marketplace, something I knew very well from my previous eBay experience. We thought we got it all, and that it was just a matter of implementation. We had got funding, lots of Awards and PR, a very motivated team. But despite all that, it was not developing as we had initially planned.

We listened to our customers and they gave us the new direction, from an open marketplace to a quality global online school, from B2C to B2B. We now have prestigious business clients and learners all over the word, with tens

of thousands of lessons given each month.

Challenges paved way for a long standing success of the company.

And Marina tells us how exactly!

Constant focus on customers and their needs is one of our pillars and key strengths. This is particularly important when you are in an industry that, like that of online education, is in a transition or evolution phase, where the main challenge is not competition but the unawareness or inexperience of customers.

Education was (and in large part still is) operating in the old traditional way, offering learners what is available, not what they need. But “One size does not fit all.” By understanding the customer and diversifying our offer in terms of teacher- contentfrequency, we can match each specific need.

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languages over the internet. Also, we were just at the beginning of the disruption of one of the most traditional industries- that of education.

Main responsibilities are keeping the vision strong- in order to set the direction and anticipate and navigate challenges- and developing an organization that is agile- in order to be able to implement the vision and perform under rapid change. This requires an entrepreneur that is able to “Think out of the box”, not afraid of taking (calculated) risks, and that has the courage and decisiveness to model the vision with actions.

For these reasons, mYngle has also won numerous awards as recognition for its contribution to online education. Immediately at start (2008): Accenture Innovation Award, European Ventures Summit Award, Benelux Venture Summit Award, and more later on. I also received numerous awards as founder and CEO of Myngle, such as 50 most inspiring women tech leaders in Europe, 50 most inspiring women in Dutch technology sector, Iconic Women Creating a Better World for All and many others.

Her professional experience includesI am a tech entrepreneur, founder of myngle.com, but the passion for entrepreneurship came later on in my career. I started with a successful career by large multinationals, Procter & Gamble, Philips, Sara Lee, The Boston Consulting Group, eBay- with an MBA from INSEAD- living and working in different Countries.

It was when working as consultant on a project on internet strategy that I first saw the potential of internet to disrupt entire industries and change forever the way we buy/sell/interact. I had to be part of that! That was the driver to start an innovative company as mYngle, as I knew I could make a real difference.

With the vast experience she has had, some of the highlights of her entrepreneurial journey areWhen we started, back in 2008, we were pioneering, amongst the first to provide oneto-one teaching of all 26

Now online language education is setting the standards in terms of quality and flexibility. And we have been part of that.

Every great team is the virtue of a great leader. On building such great team she saysIn mYngle we stimulate a culture of experimentation and allowing mistakes. Innovation cannot exist in a culture of fear of consequences. We try to develop people that think and not only do “jobs”. We look in our staff for entrepreneurs, people who do not keep the status quo, but push themselves beyond their comfort zone. If you try ten new things, some will fail, some will be OK, and one will make a difference. We are looking for that “special one”.

from people around.

Her favourite book?

It is a very old short book, and not a business one, but somehow, I feel it reflects my vision of life as well as that of an entrepreneur: “Jonathan Livingston seagull”. It is about seeking a higher purpose in life, even if our flock (everyone around us) finds it threatening.

Follow our own path in life and so fulfil our true potential. It is about finding freedom.

A person she admires?

It is not a specific person, but overall, what inspires me are people that dare to push the limits.

This in many aspects of life. Going beyond business to avoid the stereotype answers of “great leaders”, I also admire athletes of extreme sports, as their passion for sports has similar principles to that of entrepreneurship: taking (calculated) risks, going beyond what others are willing to do, and having the drive to be the best one can be.

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We are living in an era of fast and drastic changes, that means that a successful entrepreneur must be able not only to adapt but also to ride the positive trends.

“To lead is to make a difference”

If you try ten new things, some will fail, some will be OK, and one will make a difference.

We are looking for that “special one”.

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Jeff LoCastro Providing Innovative Insights in the Big Data World Neener Analytics

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he science of analyzing raw data is what data analytics is. With digitization of most of the companies, they are now using data analytics, which have also optimized their performance and increased the efficiency. It helps the companies reduce costs by establishing more efficient ways of functioning and also by storing huge amounts of data.

challenged consumers that risk-based businesses mis-decisions, misprices, or simply rejects because good decisioning on them is unavailable or unreliable. Neener is not a big data company.

Jeff LoCastro, CEO/Founder of Neener Analytics was one of the first to connect affinity and behavior to understand non-linear correlations. Based on his ability to extract unique insights, Jeff pioneered the first ever effective CPA (cost-per-action) model which became the basis of all future social analytics models, as well as the foundation for all social media monetization.

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While most people think, data analytics is something that is used mostly in automation, most financial institutions too use data analytics. Use of data analytics in financial institution has certainly decreased the risk factor.

Pioneering in this very field is Neener Analytics.

To put it in simple words, Neener Analytics has automated financial risk decisioning to 1-click of the consumer social media profile OR in as little as 3-minute chat with ARIA, the world first augmented AI chat-based risk decisioning tool the company can decide potential and current borrowers at very high rates of success. This is perfect for those thin-file, no-file, or credit 28

Everyday human beings produce 2.5 Exabyte’s (2,500,000,000,000,000,000) of data; which equals to 75 Exabyte’s per month. That is incomprehensibly big, and it's growing exponentially.

Understanding that unstoppable tsunami of information is key to future of every business (big & small), but also for every human being individually.

This tsunami is unstoppable. We can deride the cultural implications of so much observable information being generated by so many people (and lose), or simply accept it, service it . . .and Win. It is a supreme understatement to state that the understating of Information is critical to the survival of every business on the planet. And Data Analytics is at the core.

Neener Analytics are the leaders in computational social science and the only social media analytics that delivers specific, individual, risk outcomes in a 100% friction-less environment.

“We are a Small Data company.”

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correlated Fico score with an accuracy of almost 80%, but also predict the likelihood of default, risk attitude, patience/impatience, veracity --- that is, are they likely telling the truth on their application, and with a 71% accuracy predict if they are a Transactor, Revolver or Dormant.

That is - will they pay off the loan early? And a lot more.

56% of US consumers alone are thin-file, no-file and credit challenged; 88% globally. These are the invisible consumers; invisible not because they are high risk, but rather because current risk assessment systems simply don’t work for them. This is a massive global problem. Neener Analytics contends that this is the biggest problem in the world.

Jeff LoCastro CEO/Founder

based on the colour of t-shirts or “we are the ______, of _______.”

Neener Analytics is a company that focuses on selling the revenue rather than the product; and with it the quantitative, measurable results. Anytime you sell revenue it not only disrupts a market, but it creates internal disruption with the customers. That is one thing that drives the company forward. But when your product is seen as authentically disruptive, it creates a different kind of conversation. Longer sales cycles for sure, but longer customer relationships too.

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the growth of the company inspite of the challenges and continue to do so. There certainly is the core innovation in their technology, but any truly disruptive innovation leads the market a bit, i.e., jumps out ahead of where the market is at that moment.

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“You cannot build a middle class or improve the standard of living for a society or individual without access to financial products and services. And you cannot deliver that access if the risk of the engagement cannot be assessed.”

Getting ‘banked’ is great. But the problem is a so much bigger problem than simply the “unbanked” or “underbanked” because being “banked” still doesn’t solve the underlying problem of financial risk invisibility. If the risk is not understood, no one is delivering services to these consumers that improve their life.

And the scenario is such that literally every other solution provider is still trying to solve this using big data. It doesn’t work. The solution is Small Data; the solution

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is in the story each individual consumer is telling. Not based on what group to which they belong (big data), or the sum of their transactions (big data), or who their friends are (big data).

“Increase Volume. Deliver Better Customers.”

Neener specializes in alternative risk assessment and marketing conversions for Lending, Insurance, Product Leasing, Real Estate Tenant Management, Marketing, and Human Resources/Hiring. What they do can be stated in the following 4 stepsDefault Prediction • Dramatically lowers defaults • Better decisioning your turndowns: The ones you’re saying ‘No’ to but should be saying ‘Yes’ • Complete ocularity to the blind spot of No-file, Thin-file and Credit-challenged Transactor/Revolver Prediction• Predict whether someone will likely Payoff loan early or let it fully amortize • Predict or project future income of a real, fixed or financial asset portfolio

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We don’t sell “efciency” yet that is certainly a by-product.

Risk Alignment-

new and better products.

• Convert Application Abandons to Borrowers • Convert Visitors to Applicants • Market to them Individually NOT 'transactionally’ • Better match their likely risk preferences with your risk tolerances.

• Preferences + Tolerances = CONVERSIONS

The single most important this a CEO can do is build and maintain the right team. They have a clear mission at Neener Analytics. It is Jeff’s responsibility to see in their eyes that they “get it.” He needs to hear about how they do not, will not approach what we do that same way they have always approached problems. ‘

Veracity and Resiliency-

“ Mold-busters’ are my kind of people; the only kind that interest me.”

• 88% of applicants admit to entering incomplete of incorrect on application or registration forms (Blue Research 2014) • Is YOUR applicant or registrant telling the truth?

• Are they likely trustworthy?

• How ‘Resilient’ are they?

• Will they likely bounce-back after default caused by major life events (job loss, Illness or Divorce)?

• Perfect in Collection scenarios

The team consists of not the person who “contributed to _______.” It’s always the ones who have DONE it!

Jeff and his TeamAt Neener Analytics, Jeff is the Founder/CEO. Because we’re in the high technology industry, things move extremely fast. There is no time to rest upon last week’s victories or even last week’s failures. His favourite part is simply trying to find new ways to use, leverage, and expand their underlying discoveries and create February 2020

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WHY CULTIVATE A CULTURE OF GRATITUDE IN WORKPLACE? Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.

It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.

– Amy Collette

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t is the way of life that will transform the way we look at things, and also change the way we live. Cultivating a culture of gratitude means; teaching ourselves to be thankful for what we have. And to achieve that it is important for us to break the neverending cycle of wanting to achieve more in order to be happy.

As a leader, you have a say in everything that goes around in the workplace, and rightly so, it is also your responsibility to set the tone.

It won’t be useful if you just preach in your office. You need to start by doing it yourself, as all leaders dolead by example. Start the day with gratitude exercises; this will put you in the right mind-set to start

your day. Your day will start on a positive note, and not only will it make your work day possibly great, but it will also affect the others around you.

So you need to keep in mind, it all starts with you! Even the smallest of things can have a greater impact on people around you, especially if

The workplace would be a lot happier place if one instils this culture of gratitude. But often, like all the other programs run in the corporates, thinking of doing it and actually doing are two different stories. It means changing the culture of the workplace, and as a leader it is your responsibility to do it effectively.

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you are the leader. And these little things could be anything, like for example, are you smiling when you enter the office? Are you cheerful or angry or sulky? Start the day by entering the office with a cheerful smile, this way you change the mood of environment, the employees will reciprocate and likely, it will change their moods, will keep them cheerful and positive-minded for the rest of the day.

Give your employees a reason to be thankful. Some days you simply love your job and some days you just can’t help but hate it. As a leader you have to find ways in

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which you can take your workplace a step further than what is expected of the normal workplaces. Make your workplace a place where the employees will enjoy going. If the employees dread going to the work every day, it is this negativity that spreads and can affect others too.

Let the work place not be concerned entirely with work.

Conduct a few weekly activities, or discussions and debates, in short, make the workplace a happening place.

be the best things you could do to your company. When the employees start feeling happy in the place they work at and also start feeling good about the work they do, it will naturally increase their productivity at work, and you will have a win-win situation.

So, if by making small changes in the company culture, if you are able to cultivate a culture of gratitude in the workplace, it would

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Marc E. Rippen Promising Leader Changing the Healthcare Quotient

Altergy

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ealthy, healthier, healthiest, some of the things we strive to achieve every day of our lives. The medical field has seen a lot of transformation over the decade.

With technology meddling in the traditional medical services, it has for sure become even more efficient. Some of the common disorders that have troubled people are the cancer and diabetes.

Diabetes is something that is quite personal. What is important is to monitor the blood glucose levels in diabetes, and before that, knowing it. Founded by Marc. E Rippen, Alertgy is a startup medical device company that has developed ground-breaking technology to non-invasively detect glucose within the body. Founded in 2016

by Marc Rippen, Alertgy uses dielectric methods to give real time glucose measurements for people with diabetes or those who are pre diabetic and monitoring their blood sugar.

by a small team of innovators that have collaborated on challenging technical programs over the years, specifically to address the highly desired ability to measure blood sugar levels with an external wearable sensor device. The team has demonstrated taking technical laboratory concepts to proof of principal demonstrations, and scaling to global commercialization in several industries. They have also undertaken and completed an exhaustive review of the literature from the perspective of biology, analytical chemistry, physics and engineering, and have determined that it is possible to develop a non-intrusive blood sugar alert system, using existing technologies and manufacturing methods.

“To achieve an accurate measurement of blood sugar in a non-intrusive mode we must realize the complexity of the problem from an analytical perspective.”

Innovating in the medical services vertical is not as easy as it seems, because people generally tend to trust the traditional services more than anything else. Throughout the initial three years of development there have been a few challenges Altergy has faced and had to overcome. Initially, they had to determine the correct placement of their device to maximize the accuracy and reliability over a long-term period. After this was established, they have focused on sensor development in order to get the highest quality data and stability within the device. This is an everevolving process inside their research and development team, and the company will continue to tweak their device so they can deliver the highest quality product to customers when they begin manufacturing.

Products and Services-

The Company-

Alertgy addresses the real issues that diabetic patients face on a daily basis.

Alertgy has recently been founded

The number one reason given by patients for not monitoring their blood

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The Inspiring CEO’s to Watch 2020 • Allows patients to track how they are doing with their blood sugar.

• The patient will be better able to understand their patterns and use that information to better control their blood sugar.

• Patients can share this data with their healthcare provider.

• Safe and giving loved ones a peace of mind • Alerts the patient, their loved one, or potentially their healthcare provider if their blood sugar drops too low or goes too high.

Marc E Rippen President & Founder

glucose level is the finger stick. The Alertgy Non Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor (NICGM) addresses this major barrier. But it does much more; for patients the Alertgy NICGM is: • Lancet free and pain free • Patients will no longer have to draw any blood to measure your blood sugar.

• Convenient and discreet.

• Patients will no longer need to carry lancets, alcohol wipes, strips and a glucometer.

• Patients can get a blood sugar reading, on demand, through their smart phone.

• No one has to know if the patient is diabetic when they are checking their blood sugar.

• No mess! No blood and used supplies to dispose of.

• Cost-effective • No supplies and strips to pay for, just the device.

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The Alertgy NICGM is a device that measures blood sugar without the need of drawing blood like the traditional glucose measuring devices. Through their revolutionary technology, they have developed a platform and sensor that is unlike anything currently available on the consumer market.

Most all devices today rely on physical blood measurements collected through direct blood measurements requiring needles and other painful processes. The Alertgy NICGM gets rid of these arduous methods and gives people the ability to accurately measure their blood glucose in real-time.

The Alertgy NICGM is a band that you wear around your wrist that works with an app on your smartphone to measure your blood sugar.

Through the Alertgy NICGM you will be able to get a blood sugar reading on demand, see how your blood sugar levels change over time, and allow you to set alerts to notify you, loved ones, or others if your blood sugar level goes too low or too high.

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Alertgy provides a way to enable better blood glucose management. hypo-allergenic, and is worn 24 hours a day.

Marc. E Rippen- Transforming Health through Innovation

Diabetes is one of the top health issues facing the world today.

422 million people suffer from diabetes worldwide (8.5% of the world population) of which an estimated 29 million are in the US. Of the three types of diabetes (Type 1, Type 2, and gestational), Type 2 accounts for over 90% of the total cases of diabetes. The increased prevalence of diabetes and obesity (a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes) has increased dramatically from 1994 to 2014 and is expected to grow. There are 86 million Americans with pre-diabetes (1/3rd of the population) of which 15% to 30% will develop type 2 diabetes in five years.

Marc is the former Director of Engineering of the Marine and Space Division of SRI International St. Petersburg, as well as a prominent program manager and a top gun in business development for multiple fortune 500 companies, and defence contractors supporting DOD organizations such as DARPA and SOCOM for advanced Applied Research and Development Projects. After graduating with multiple degrees with course work in wide ranging disciplines such as Microbiological Science, Biophysics, Aeronautics, and Management of Engineering and Technology, he has spent his career providing technology-based solutions to solve difficult problems for his customers. He is also an adjunct Professor of Engineering Management at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University where he enjoys teaching young engineers how to manage applied research and development programs.

Rather than limiting their technology to one sector of the healthcare industry, diabetes monitoring, Altergy aims to see the possibility of rapidly expanding into multiple regions of this space, with possible applications throughout a plethora of preventative and diagnostic healthcare. Not only is their sensor capable of accurately detecting glucose molecules in the blood but is also able to detect other types of molecules, giving us the possibility to detect and inform users of other diseases and conditions within the body.

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Some of the key achievements during this journey building Alertgy have been watching the team grow as well as seeing the hard work pay off in the achievements of company goals. As they have grown as a company, most all of the team members have stayed with Alertgy. During this

process it has been great to watch different team members develop and harness new skills, grow as leaders, and expand their professional abilities. All of these things will make a profound positive impact on their future lives, and the company is proud to be able to provide these things within the company.

“Throughout the journey there have been multiple obstacles trying to block our path and limit our opportunities, and seeing these overcome is always a great achievement for our team.”

He likes to call his team the A Team because they are a dedicated group who work together and always have each other’s backs.

Though they are all a small group, the passion and desire each and every one of them possess has made them capable of generating success that even a team much larger couldn’t accomplish.

Being the CEO, Marc is constantly on the road building relationships and getting our name out, which means he cannot be a 24/7 presence at the lab in Melbourne.

“For this reason,”, Marc says, “it is all the more important that I have a strong team who can accomplish our goals through a fundamental and strong communication network we have fostered throughout the entire company”.

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o put it in simple words, intelligent automation is the amalgamation of the two very familiar technologies that have been around for quite a long time now- Artificial Intelligence and Automation. Artificial Intelligence includes things like the machine learning, the language recognition and vision. And automation is something that includes all the industry related things.

The applications of intelligent automation are vast. With the use of intelligent automation one can convert a huge amount of data into information that can be easily processed and synthesizes it to an usable format and it sometimes also recommends course of action.

specialise in Business Process Management. Acquired by PwC then spun off in 2014 to create DigiBlu, our projects included the design and implementation of leanbased approaches, the development of a Banking Reference Model in ARIS, the design of core banking processes for a start-up digital bank and the design and implementation of a Process CoE. The initial challenge was ‘selling’ the concept of digital workers - a new, 4IR paradigm

In an interview with The Enterprise World, Steve Burke unfolds the journey of DigiBlu.

The core offerings of DigiBlu are• Digital Workforces – we help our clients create digital workforces on their premises, at scale. To do so, we provide consulting, delivery and capability services • Business Processes as-a-Service – we automate specific business processes and provide them as-aservice, over the cloud • Managed Services – we provide clients with the specialists required to run automated processes remotely, from our Robotic Operations Centre (ROC) in Cape Town

Talking about the company, its inception and the challenges encountered, he says-

With challenges at hand, the point that triggered the growth of the company was-

DigiBlu specialises in using Intelligent Automation technologies to create digital workforces that operate automated processes.

The first trigger was successfully delivering automated processes at a prestigious retail bank, which gave us early credibility

DigiBlu’s own journey to Intelligent Automation began back in 2005 when its antecedent, Southpaw Solutions, was set up to

Then we scaled a huge digital workforce at an insurance company, which gave us international recognition (including

Using this to accelerate the organizational performance, Steve Burke's DigiBlu has helped many organizations transform from just traditional workspaces to being digitally abled.

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a Blue Prism Partner of the Year award) Then we set up a Robotic Operations Centre which leverages an Intelligent Automation platform to provide automation services to international clients, remotely, from Cape Town.

Standing strong through the challenges, on what paved way for the company’s success, Steve saysWe grew from 16 members of staff in 2017 to 65 in 2019 and revenues by 650% over that same period.

We have continuously innovated to sustain competitive advantage; we focus relentlessly on building differentiated competencies; have a highly motivated team who coalesce around our vision and, most of all, we have delighted customers who we partner with on the journey to the digital workforce.

With such a successful timeline, when we asked Steve what would be the next step, he had a clear vision of it allThe opportunities to leverage Intelligent Automation are seemingly exponential as organisations progress from automating as-is processes to reimagining their business and operating models and as they explore different service delivery models - from on-premise to as-aservice. We stick to our core – of implementing and operating digital 41

workforces – and seize new opportunities that derive from that, when they seem compelling.

strategizing and delivering transformational business change for large organisations.

inspire them and build the capabilities required to successfully deliver it.

We are currently developing an offering for a virtual front-office, delivered as-a-service, with Antworks. This uses Cognitive Machine Reading capabilities to capture data from all sources, to ingest and structure it and then inform decisions which are executed in the back office, using RPA.

The highlights of his entrepreneurial journey include-

We are on the journey together and have created a learning organisation so that we capture learnings and improve our methods so we fulfil our potential, both individually and collectively as an organisation.

Steve has had a diverse and an impressive professional experience. In brief-

We say to our clients, “when it comes to automation, no one has all the answers and no one knows where this journey will end, but let’s go there together.” It is very satisfying to be taken into their confidence and to achieve material success.

After university, I was commissioned as an officer in the British Parachute Regiment and served 16 years in sometimes challenging scenarios. Our modus operandi was to be clear about the ultimate objective but to be flexible in execution because the situation always changes, and to seize opportunities as they arise. This is a core feature, I feel, of successful entrepreneurialism. After the army, I went into management consulting and have spent the last 20 years 42

What we’re doing is world changing – changing the workplace by taking the robot out of the human. It is cool to be leading a fast-growing business at the cutting edge of 4IR and mapping unchartered territory.

Leadership is something that is not everyone’s cup of tea. Steve saysTo create a compelling vision and identify opportunities to realise it, that profitably grow the business.

The entrepreneur must align the team with the vision, motivate and

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

Competition is always around the corner; dealing with it is the true leadership. Steve’s thoughts on this areObserve the environment and be open to constant change, to seize the initiative and stay two steps ahead of the competition.

I’m a keen boxer, and own a boxing club. Boxing is transformative: we say, “we’ll get you fit, we’ll give you skills … you bring the heart.”

The ring makes you strong and prepares you to win the rat race.

Some dogged determination helps too!

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Leveraging the Industry Trends Ultra Tune

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uning in to your favourite music in the car and long smooth roads, just the perfect recipe for a great drive!

Well, have you ever thought, that is your car tuned in to its own music?

Any car or a bike is an orchestra in itself, the engine sounds, the sounds of the brakes, and everything else. And just one sound goes out of tune, it affects the whole thing.

This is why the servicing of your vehicles is so important. Sean Buckley, who was the owner of Ultra Thoroughbreds, he acquired the functioning of Ultra Tune as the CEO in 1994. Sean went about building Ultra Tune at the expense of his own comfort. He was taking $100 a week in wages so that he could invest back into the business, specifically the franchisees, because these were the people who were driving the model.

The Journey Ultra Tune commenced trading in 1979 with a pilot store in Box Hill, Victoria and rapidly expanded 44

across the country after businessman Bert Smart saw a specialist Fast Tune-Up store in Hawaii whilst traveling home to Australia from the USA. Through Smart's vision a franchise model was established which saw the new business expand rapidly into all Australian states except WA. Using the latest Dyno Tune technology, which enabled vehicles to be tuned whilst on “rolling roads”, Ultra Tune garnered wide public acceptance in the competitive after-market servicing sphere.

By 1983 Smart realized the “tune-up only” offering was not viable in the long term for the network and instead of redeveloping the franchise model to accommodate a wider range of alternative services he decided to sell off the franchise to new owners (predominantly groups of existing Ultra Tune franchisees) in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

In 1988 each of the franchisor entities (with the exception of South Australia) merged and formed a new company Ultra Tune (Systems)

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The Inspiring CEO’s to Watch 2020 provides both fleet and private motorists with a full range of services, each designed to be performed in a structured series of operating procedures which ensure faster, more efficient and cost effective service.

Ultra Tune has subsequently expanded its range of services to include tyres and all tyre-related servicing needs.

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Australia Pty Ltd. (UTSA). Within the following 12 months UTSA opened its first franchise store in Perth, WA. In the early-to-mid 1990’s the network experienced turmoil and faced financial ruin with a number of stores across the network forced to close due high rental lease costs. It was at that point that Current Executive Chairman, Sean Buckley acquired management and then later shareholding control in Ultra Tune sometime after a public auction in 1994 and after receivers had been appointed to UTSA.

Ultra Tune employs specialist personnel from all relevant disciplines to provide first class back up and support to franchise owners. Key administrative staff are professionals from accounting, financial management and marketing backgrounds. The Franchisor’s technical and training staff are highly qualified; some having previously owned and operated or managed an Ultra Tune franchise. They are constantly being updated and instructed on the latest technical innovations and procedures.

100% Australian owned with more than 280 centres operating throughout Australia, Ultra Tune’s growth is steeped in a tradition of quality, affordable service with a vision towards an evolving, everchanging future.

Ultra Tune specialises in the maintenance and servicing of all popular makes and models of motor vehicles in the Australian market, providing a wide range of servicing options including manufacturer’s handbook servicing, tuning, air-conditioning servicing and general repairs.

Ultra Tune Australia Pty Ltd was born and over the next 22 plus years under Buckley’s stewardship using his own business model – which included the acquisition of competing brands such as Car Care Clinic (1999) and Auto Masters sites in Queensland and NSW during the early 2000's – grew the organization from around 70 mediocrely operating franchises into a successful national franchise network model.

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While Ultra Tune started with a fixed price tune and lube service it now

Ultra Tune provides both fleet and

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private motorists with a full range of services, each designed to be performed in a structured series of operating procedures, ensuring a faster, more efficient and costeffective service to all.

Ultra Tune looks after all vehicle servicing needs including, but not limited to manufacturer’s handbook servicing, tuning, air-conditioning servicing and general repairs. Since launching Ultra Tyres in 2013 Ultra Tune is also able to supply and fit high quality, affordable tyres for most vehicle types. In addition, The Ultra Tune Roadside Assistance program provides motorists with peace of mind knowing if anything does happen while out on the road, assistance is never far away. Unlike other service providers, Ultra Tune can offer and “end to end” servicing of all common (and exotic) makes and models of motor vehicles – from tyres to batteries and everything else in between.

“Our focus is on innovation and differentiation – Ultra Tune utilizes its own purposed built, state-of-theart IT platform which seamlessly integrates all of the company’s services and vehicle service history in one central repository.”

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Today, Ultra Tune is considered the industry leader in its technical eld.

in all aspects of business has helped keep Ultra Tune at the forefront and widely recognized as THE leading after sales service automotive service provider in Australia.

Whilst the competition was “contemplating” the merit of social media advertising, Ultra Tune was already marketing to more than 500,000 Facebook followers and using various other mechanisms of digital marketing to stay ahead of the competition – a philosophy that has served the company well over the years.

and Breeding enterprises. Sean is a skilled entrepreneur with a diverse range of interests including sports, business and new technologies. He went about building Ultra Tune at the expense of his own comfort. He famously took $100 a week in wages so that he could invest back into the business, specifically the franchisees, because these were the people who were driving his longterm ‘ vision and the business model.

Ultra Tune has also introduced a series of television commercials called the “Unexpected Situation”.

These ads have retained a number of high profile celebrities over te years like Charlie Sheen and Pamela Anderson. These have proven central to the success and differentiation of the company for the last 6-7 years significantly raising the profile of the brand.

In 2016 Sean appeared on behalf of Ultra Tune and other independent after sales service providers at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (the industry’s professional lobby group where he now sits on the board) enquiry into the monopoly that new car manufacturers were attempting to sustain on after sales servicing, Sean’s appearance and the background work completed by Ultra Tune proved decisive in opening up the market to greater competition in the industry with legislative changes resulting.

Sean Buckley- Entrepreneurial Intelligence Sean Buckley is an Australian entrepreneur with vast experience in many areas of business. Sean is Executive Chairman at The Ultra Group of Companies which includes (among others) Ultra Tune and Ultra Thoroughbreds – one of Australia's largest and most successful Thoroughbred Racing

“Entrepreneurs need to “think outside the box”.

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earning something or developing as new skill is not a one day activity.

Learning anything new requires a time period in which you can learn it, practice it and perfect it.

Although, these principles are ignored in our approach to professional learning. Many organizations invest in professional learning programs that last only for a few hours after which there is neither any follow-up activity nor is anyone given any opportunity for practice.

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It is just as easy! Perfection needs practice. One can’t run a marathon by just standing at the door, or walking towards it. To win a marathon, you ďŹ rst need to start by walking, then running and practicing it over and over again until you have built enough endurance. And then you can participate in a marathon, and probably also win it! This is how learning happens.

Organizations generally rely on the on-site trainings which are reserved

for the high potential employees and seniors. Herein they spend a day away from their desks and spend time learning something new; however, the next day it is the same routine with emails and pending work. In this case, they get very little or almost no time to implement what they learnt in their daily activities.

Work would go on and on after a professional development training programme, but there won’t be any progress and changes seen in the February 2020

& the Myth Surrounding It processes. What we can learn from this is learning is a process that requires practice to get the desired results. And this is exactly where most organizations go wrong in the training programmes. Having a one day training programme and expecting changes is equivalent to giving someone a day-long lecture on driving and expecting them to drive awlessly the next day.

This signiďŹ es why you should take things in a phased manner.

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that you have learnt and applying it bit by bit and then learning some more. It is not a one day process.

The same thing needs to be applied to the workplace learning.

Instead of training the employees for one day and expecting them to apply it in their own terms, the organizations should teach their employees something new every day and give them time to practice it and then implement it. This way everyone is in a beneďŹ t, employees will learn something new every

day, and the management of the organization will also get the desired results and changes they need to have in the organization.

The process is simple, crystal clear.

Learn something new, apply it to the work routines, keep repeating it until you have perfected it and then move on to learn something new.

It is a simple math and a completely wrong myth!

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