Driving Business Growth: The 7Ps of Deal-Closing

Simon Haigh is a dealmaker. He is also a lawyer, international businessman, investor, company director, corporate consultant, presenter and professional mentor. Simon has 26 years of international C-Suite legal, strategic, sales and commercial experience including 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), How To Be A Better Deal-Closer and Dealmaking for Corporate Growth | the 7PS of Successful Business Deal Execution - both available on www.amazon.com (with forewords by Marshall Goldsmith- international best-selling author of Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t get You There).

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. Simon is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (highest esteemed honorary position) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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 GCM Advisory firm (www.gcmadvisory.com) and is a director of, or advisor to, a number of other businesses in the brand management, technology, retail, health, tourism and hospitality and fashion industries. When he is not making deals, Simon mentors budding entrepreneurs in the art of dealmaking.