Founder and Chairman, ilipa Ventures
Entertain, educate,
and hopefully inspire.
“Whenever possible, helping people to be happy. Just generally trying to make the world a slightly better place.”
Self taught, self employed, and still building.
Welcome to my personal website, where I aim to entertain, educate and hopefully inspire people to create more enriched, meaningful, fulfilling lives.
I am a serial entrepreneur, wanna-be chef, yet-to-publish author, gym aficionado, autodidactic student of the neurosciences and aspiring bedroom musician, with an egregious proclivity for wearing vests and caps.
Since early 2024 I have been perpetually itinerant, running things out of more than five hundred different hotels across Southeast Asia and Australia. Travelling stopped being a hobby somewhere around hotel two hundred.
The rest of it still holds, wherever I happen to be: guitar, music, photographing sunsets, cooking, working out, reading, drinking beer and, when the geography allows it, snowboarding.
The longer version
Places the work has taken me.
Mostly business, mostly brief, and never quite long enough in any of them.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019
Very proud to be a shareholder and part of the team who contributed to V Ultimate Wellness Bhd winning the SEBA 2019 Wellness Group of the Year award in Malaysia.
Chongqing, China, 2018
One of the joys of running your own business is the ability to travel, experience different cultures and expand your network. Meeting with suppliers for Jaime Alexander Furniture.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019
Discussing the proposed IPO for V Ultimate Wellness Bhd on Bursa Malaysia.
Minsk, Belarus, 2019
First time visiting the beautiful city of Minsk, meeting our ilipa IT partners Gurtam.
New York, United States, 2017
Meeting the market makers ahead of our reverse takeover on to the NASDAQ OTC.
Singapore, 2014
Sampling a private jet experience with my colleague Eric Banks at the Millionaire Asia launch.
Doha, Qatar, 2017
Presenting to the Qatar Investment Authority at their headquarters in Doha.
What is running now, and what came before.
- 2025Dinetap AustraliaFree cloud POS and Adyen payment terminals for hospitality, with next-day settlement. Board seat.
- 2025Mentawai OneA 2,639-hectare sustainable Special Economic Zone on Siberut Island, West Sumatra.
- 2025Vespertine IndustriesA studio for independent hospitality concepts, where food, music, design and place come together.
- 2024ilipa DevelopmentsGroup holding company and the hospitality concept division: Suitescape, Jaime Alexander Hotels & Villas, and Vespertine Industries.
- 2022ilipa OneA platform built to inspire and empower entrepreneurs, and to change how businesses grow and scale.
- 2019ilipa HostFast, affordable web hosting, email and VPS services for businesses.