Goals
BNI
- Improve my self-confidence.
- Make at least 30K in profit from my BNI membership per year.
- Grow my network - and make some friends along the way!
Business
- Short Term: Double River’s monthly billing revenue by the end of 2026.
- Give River a ‘home’. We need to grow enough to buy a commercial property that can become a long term base for the company, and will form an important part of my long term wealth strategy.
- Find more ways for the business to give back to the business community and local charities.
Personal
- Be more present and patient with my wife and kids.
- Increase my personal income enough to allow my wife to stop working for the NHS so that she can focus on her health and her business aspirations.
- Start making technology video content and posting it online.
- Become a scratch golfer by the time I’m 40 yo.
Accomplishments
- Started River Technologies with only £15k savings – made the business profitable
within the first 6 months despite baby no.2, mortgage doubling and Covid to navigate.
- Built a business that was successful enough for my close friend and mentor to want to buy-in
and help build it with me. This was a particular moment of pride.
- Went from a trainee comms engineer to a fully fledged engineer in just 2 years.
- Two happy, healthy, wonderful children – they are the thing I’m most proud of.
Interests
- Music - I play guitar and drums.
- Tech - which helps in my line of work!
- Cars - I’ve always been a huge petrol head, even though I now drive a milk-float.
- Golf - took up golf this year and it’s become a really important way of me feeling mentally and physically healthier.
- Tattoos - Always been a big part of my life since growing up in the punk-rock scene. I’ll run out of space before I stop getting them!
Networks
- Telecoms Industry - we do a lot of work for our competitors as subcontractors
and we have great working relationships with them all over the country.
- My Dad - 30+ years in business running Lake Technologies – there’s rarely a
problem and he doesn’t know someone who can solve it!