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Future Look at Business and Success

By , November 23, 2020
Michael Gorton

Michael Gorton is one of the Founders of TelaDoc, the world’s leading telemedicine company which has gone on to save thousands of lives during the Coronavirus pandemic. He discusses the demand for Teladoc in 2020 compared to the countless challenges and adversity they faced when starting out in 2002. Michael also converses his work as the CEO of Back to Space, a transmedia company designed to encourage future generations to develop an interest in engineering, science and space. He is a 13-time Serial Entrepreneur, and from this experience recalls the key to being successful with your business is planning, people and persistence.

Michael has several decades of experience building companies in the music, telecom, energy and healthcare industries. Not only a successful entrepreneur, with his start-ups creating more than $3.4 billion in wealth, he is also a best-selling author, a 3rd degree black belt in karate and has completed a bicycle adventure across the US of about 5,000miles.

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Craig West

Craig West

Executive Chairman | Succession Plus

Craig West is a strategic accountant with over 20 years of experience advising business owners. His background as a CPA in public practice has provided invaluable experience in the key issues of concern to business owners.

In March 2014, Craig was appointed Executive Chairman of the SME Association of Australia, Australia’s largest small business organisation representing over 300,000 business owners.

In October 2014, he was awarded the Exit Planner of the Year at the Exit Planning Institute Annual Conference in Texas, USA, due to his innovative development of an exit planning process to help business owners maximise business value and achieve a successful exit.

Craig’s proprietary structure - a Peak Performance Trust - has won the Australia-wide award for the Employee Share Ownership Plan of the year twice in four years.

In November 2018, Craig launched SME Experts in partnership with Mark Bouris’ Mentored on Podcast One and quickly grew the monthly podcast audience to over 26,500 downloads; in October 2019, he released a new podcast focused on medium-sized businesses - Mid-Market Matters.

In July 2021, Craig joined the NSW Committee for STEP (Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners) – focusing on advising families across generations.

Craig has also launched a SaaS platform, Capitaliz (which captures the 21-step process), to assist other advisers internationally deliver advisory services at scale.

In November 2021, Craig was appointed Executive Chairman of NSW Leaders, a business mentoring group for leading NSW businesses.

In July 2022, Craig West received the award of Doctor of Business Administration for his research thesis titled “Examination of the key factors driving business exit options in Australian Small and Medium Enterprises.”

Craig is passionate about encouraging business owners to think strategically, maximise the value of their business and achieve a successful exit.

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