Ryan Trainor
Brendan McKeegan
Damian Arnall
Graeme Goldman

Ryan Trainor

Ryan Trainor started his first company, a Retail Security firm in 1997 at the age of 23. After three years he was servicing most major retailers in Australia, including Coles Myer and Woolworths, employing hundreds of staff and regarded as a key innovator of change in the security personnel industry. He sold to a large Multi National in 2000.

Since then, Ryan has founded and grown several businesses, including a payment technology company that commercialised mobile payments with Australia's largest banks and Telecommunication companies and a National Training business (TAFE) that he co-founded in 1998 that trained over 1200 students a year across Australia servicing some of Australia’s leading companies that include Flight Centre, Manpower and Hertz. The Training Business was sold to a publicly listed company in late 2003. Recently Ryan also co-founded www.fitnesstogo.com, a new media fitness company.

Ryan's entrepreneurial and creative reputation has seen him recognised in 2000 and 2001 National Australia Day Young Achiever of the Year Awards and is the past President of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) in Melbourne.

Ryan's is now a partner in NinetyDays, providing ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ services to both major corporate and emerging companies and regularly presents at conferences in Australia and Overseas.

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Brendan McKeegan
Brendan is an Entrepreneur at the forefront of commercialising emerging technologies. By the age of 31, he had worked and built businesses in the USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, UK, Germany, France and New Zealand.

Although Brendan holds a degree in Information Technology, he believes his greatest learning experiences have come from completing a ‘real life’ MBA through exposure to a diverse range of successful commercial ventures. Brendan was a founding member of the executive team one of Australia’s most successful technology companies, Hitwise, with responsibility for establishing the company’s global footprint. Hitwise was purchased in April 2007 by Experian for US$240M.

Other businesses Brendan has founded include Revolution Brands, an apparel and footwear company that specialises in wholesale and retail distribution of licensed products, and Oxia, a unique recreational oxygen product that is distributed in luxury hotels in North America, Europe and Asia.

Brendan co-founded NinetyDays in 2005 as a vehicle for him and his entrepreneurial peers to indulge in their passion of building businesses in high growth and emerging sectors.

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Damian Arnall
At the age of 25 Damian foundered Vivir Healthcare, a company that outsources skilled labour to the residential and hospital sector. Vivir has been a pioneer in improving the efficiency and viability of businesses through outsourcing non core healthcare services. Vivir now has a national presence and is one of the fastest growing companies in its market segment.

Concurrently Damian founded a series of medical clinics, hair dressing and aromatherapy businesses. He exited the medical clinic business in 2000 through a trade sale to an Australian company with a national presence.

In additional to considerable practical experience in building businesses in the Aged Care, Health Care, Recruitment, Labour Hire and SME industries, Damian, like most entrepreneurs, possesses an innate understanding of the key elements required to build successful businesses with solid foundations – businesses that are attractive as acquisition targets. He thrives on navigating businesses through the early growth phase in order to achieve profitability in the shortest possible timeframe.

Damian holds a BA of Science and was awarded Faculty Scholar. In 1997 he completed BA of Physiotherapy and in 2004 an MBA with an honors. Damian has also been invited to lecture at Swinburne University in the Master of Business Administration and Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program.

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Graeme Goldman
Graeme is a qualified Chartered Accountant, with a wide and varied professional career in accounting, auditing and senior management in companies in both South Africa and Australia.

Originally born in Zimbabwe, educated in South Africa and now living in Australia, Graeme has experience across many industries and is well skilled in dealing with people from varied walks of life. In South Africa, Graeme spent seven years in an accounting and tax auditing environment and three years in an investment and insurance consulting company before immigrating to Australia in 1995.

In Australia, Graeme has worked in senior management roles in the toy and clothing industries leading up to a position as the Brand Manager for the watch company Swatch, during the Sydney 2000 Olympics, where Swatch was the official event timekeeper.

Graeme’s success as the Swatch Brand Manager, lead to him being appointed as the Managing Director of The Swatch Group Australia in 2001.

Graeme left The Swatch Group Australia to start up a new company in the sales and marketing arena, which proved to be a great success. After approximately three years, new business partners were found who assumed the day-to-day operations of this company, freeing Graeme to pursue other business opportunities. Since then, Graeme has been providing business advisory and consulting services to a variety of companies, further utilizing his well honed operational and entrepreneurial skills and abilities.

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