Ian is a signal fire for the next generations of entrepreneurs and modern business development. After kick-starting his career in assets management, Ian merged his financial prowess and cultivated his creative ambition, founding multiple successful ventures. He launched his first technology company in 2017, which handled corporate compliance and risk management around background screening for ASX listed companies.

Disrupting the disruptors is Ian's approach - inspiring him to co-found FIN-PAY in 2019, a tech-based solution that strives to provide simple, frictionless, and effortless payment methods with an agile global payment infrastructure. In late 2019 leveraging of his experience in verification, Ian joined forces with Sam Smith to build NXT a real-time verification and application management system to assist property managers to automate their workflow.

In the conversation with the Mere Mortal team, Ian was able to share both his business acumen alongside his personal traits that have led him to the success of today. From his origin story through to running multiple businesses, Ian takes us through a rich journey and we top it off with his daily practices, go to learning tools and a final pragmatic takeaway for everyone out there.

As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:

(0:00) - Introduction

(1:28) - Jordan Belfort Entrepreneur Course.

(3:30) - Beginning a business, failing gracefully

(7:40) - Diversified Assets

(10:50) - The moment that forced a change

(19:20) - The incoming payment changes

(24:40) - Learning how to hire

(30:50) - Think about 5 years from now

(35:10) - A founding CEO and when to step away

(39:30) - Lifestyle and fitting in learnings

(45:55) - How to Contact Ian

Connect with Ian:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianparke/

About Mere Mortals:

Deep conversations with a light-hearted touch. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Conversations & Meanderings.

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