Simon Haigh is a dealmaker. He is also a lawyer, international businessman, investor, company director, corporate consultant, presenter and professional mentor. Simon has 23 years of international C-Suite legal, strategic, sales and commercial experience with Dell, BHP, Xilinx, NANA, Eneabba Gas and leading global law firms in US, Europe, Australia and Asia Pacific. Simon is author of Contract Law in an E-Commerce Age (Round-Hall Sweet & Maxwell, 2001). Simon holds a BA (Hons) Law from Durham University, England, an MBA from Curtin University, Western Australia, Business Process Improvement Green and Yellow Belts and Applied Project Management qualifications. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also an invited member of the Innovate Australia Western Australia Taskforce. Simon has a fast-growing international reputation for consummating major commercial deals, combining entrepreneurial capability with corporate and professional underpinning. He is founder and Managing Director of a global advisory firm, GCM Advisory (www.gcmadvisory.com) and is a director of or advisor to a number of other businesses in the technology, retail, health, tourism and hospitality and fashion industries, including watch brand Haigh & Hastings (www.haighandhastingswatches.com). When he is not making deals, Simon mentors budding entrepreneurs in the art of dealmaking and enjoys traveling and spending time with his wife, Margaret, and two teenage daughters, Kathryn and Alice. Simon writes, speaks and mentors extensively on dealmaking, strategy, business and leadership and can be contacted at simon@gcmadvisory.com or simon@simonhaigh.com (see www.simonhaigh.com).