I left school at 16 and became involved in the construction industry. It was hard, hard work and I stuck at it for five years until I broke my arm in a work accident, which wasn’t good news for that career! But it meant I had to look for other things I could do, which was how I was introduced to network marketing. I am sure that I wouldn’t have been content being a plasterer for the rest of my life, but that apparent setback was the very thing that put me on my current path at an early age.

My first experience in network marketing was in 1990, with a company that had great potential to make a lot of money. But in fact I didn’t, for three years – although they did provide an excellent support structure and plenty of self-development. So while I didn’t achieve much financially, I did receive a great deal in terms of my personal education. And that was invaluable.

Some time after, one or two of the people I most admired and respected left the business and started a new one. Following them, and trusting my belief in people, was one of the best decisions I ever made. The new business turned out to be a great success for me; I was 23 and earning lots of money, fuelled by self-belief.

Some years later, the company went out of business and left me with nothing. A familiar story, you may think. I became disillusioned. I had lost a great income and lifestyle and found myself with little to show for it. So would you believe, I went back to what I knew, the construction business; and I started to use the Internet.

I came across a network marketing company which had embraced the Internet, and although the business never really took off (it was perhaps ahead of its time – this was still only the mid-nineties), the concept was great. I knew one thing was certain: the Internet was the future, and had huge potential for the network industry.

I moved to Australia, where I was involved with setting up and running an Internet business, involved in selling wine. It was fun, but it had limitations…

Then one day while in Sydney I saw an advert looking for people to join a lottery syndicate and a light bulb went on in my head. I had a concept of making a lottery syndicate that people could join on the Internet, and suddenly I lost my taste for the wine business.

I needed help and assistance to develop the concepts, and that’s when I contacted Len. I had known Len for some time; he was a successful and a very organized businessperson. Slowly one of those once-in-a-lifetime ideas formed from our discussions.

I met with Len and we drew up the idea on a sheet of flipchart paper. And I reckon, knowing Len, that he still has it filed away somewhere. That was the beginning of VWD. Over the past years we have refined our methods and honed them into a thriving success that has given luxury lifestyles to a lot of people, across 133 countries.

In our search to develop the e-lottery further, we began to see that there were existing markets on the Internet which, combined in our unique way, had unlimited potential. Knowing that the best ideas are often simply a recombination of existing concepts, I came up with the idea for uVme. After a lot of research, we showed the concept to some of our top people around the world – and they were “gob-smacked”.

Today the uVme opportunity is laid out on uVme.biz and is a glimpse into the culmination of two and a half years of work. We are now in the pre-launch stage, a very exciting time for all involved.

The potential of uVme is unlimited. This is it - the pinnacle I’ve been striving for over the past twenty years.