Early career in fraud investigation in the UK's DTI, then 10 years to 1996 in City regulation, latterly as a Director of the International Petroleum Exchange. Since then active as a strategic market consultant, entrepreneur and commentator. Initiated the ongoing "Iran Oil Bourse" project beloved of Internet conspiracy theorists. In the last few years actively developing partnership-based "enterprise models" or legal and financial structures, and now consulting as an enterprise architect in the application of decentralised and non-hierarchical networked legal models typically using UK LLP's and US LLC's Current projects include the Hanseatic Microfinance Initiative, supported by the Norwegian government.