Colin Coverdale

Originally a rural boy born in St. George and lived in various towns in the outback. Enjoyed an international business career and now operating specialist Clinics for Indigenous entpreneurs to become fully independent and successful business owners. Worked in the corporate arena including early ANZ Bank; BP Oil round the world, then own businesses nationally & internationally training in small business education. Former KPMG Director of Strategy NZ, Group MD of Retailing design & build organisation, Certified management Consultant, Fellow both Aust./NZ Institutes of Management, Member Aust. Institute of Company Directors & am a practising Board Director. Passionate believer in 'Closing the Gap' and in giving all Australians a fair go - especially the First Peoples who got here 70,000 years before we did. Now there's a 'gap' which is going to take us a while to catch up and I'm trying to do my bit!