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Formational Members
Overview
Formational
Ventures is fortunate to have as its members highly accomplished and diverse
individuals who have demonstrated a continuous drive toward creating new,
prosperous futures for themselves and others in business and in a variety of
life's endeavors as well.
Addresses
Our
members live and work throughout the world.
Examples of places our members call home include: Melbourne, Sydney,
Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.
Members reside throughout Europe as well, including London, Madrid,
Dublin, Munich and Paris.
We live throughout America too in such places as New York, Washington,
Seattle, Portland, in Hawaii (both Oahu and the big island), and throughout
California, including San Francisco and Palo Alto - the center of Silicon
Valley.
Occupations
We
are flattered by the fact that several of our members are presently serving as
or have been Chief Executive Officers or Managing Directors at numerous public
and private companies. Members
have been Chief Financial Officers, Chief Information Officers, and have
served in a variety of executive management roles in Operations, Marketing,
Sales and Business Development.
Our
members are highly technical as well. Many
have led technology developments at their companies in roles such as Chief
Technology Officer, Vice President of Engineering, Distinguished Engineer and
Senior Architect.
Experiences
Many
of our members are entrepreneurs who have naturally experienced both
disappointing lows and soaring highs. Enormous
wisdom resides in our membership from having founded numerous companies, establishing new
business divisions and pioneering new markets and channels.
At large multi-national enterprises, our members have been their company’s
top sales performers, have formed partnerships in a variety of industries and
emerging marketplaces, have earned numerous professional achievement awards
and have led their companies through stages of explosive growth and initial
public offerings in securities markets such as the NYSE, NASDAQ and others.
Inventiveness
Our
members have literally revolutionized entire industries as diverse as Internet
communications and the Dairy Industry of Great Britain.
These creative individuals have been granted numerous patents, have invented
global communications standards and have established new business models and
processes.
Passions
Sometimes
it seems as though most of our members are aviators. Members have night-landed an F14 on the rolling deck of an
aircraft carrier, been the first to circumnavigate Australia in their own
helicopter to raise money for charity, won international glider racing
championships, rallied their own hot-air balloon, and much more.
Aviation isn’t the only passion of our members.
Our membership includes many car enthusiasts and mariners as well, who
drive or sail, beautiful machines of all classes of performance in rallies and
regattas alike.
Passions are a diverse as our individual members who include a master in the
martial art Tae Kwon Do, an award-winning underwater photographer, and a
technologist working with an orphanage in China.
Honored
We
at Formational are honored to serve such a diverse and driven group of truly
special individuals.
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