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Fred Cottrell is the nom-de-plume of an up and coming corporate leader with designs on prominence. Fred spent his early years on a drought affected farm in far East Gippsland (Victoria) learning how to catch trout and castrate rams before moving to the big smoke, pausing on the way to learn to be a trumpeter and play representative football and cricket. Fred's early career as a dentist was a vast disappointment - both to him and his patients - and led to a mid-career switch to business administration, focusing on finding commercial applications for Australia's publicly funded research.
Fred recently returned from a lengthy international posting where, despite having been exposed to some particularly Machiavellian corporate and political practices, he retains a deep affection for most things American, many things French and a couple of things English. His international background includes being chased by Gendarmes for illegal kicking of a football on the grass near the Eiffel tower, being frogmarched from a US Government building by armed Marines, buying a beer for Stefan Edberg in Stockholm and spilling wine on an Ambassador's wife while waiting tables at the Australian Embassy in Paris.
Despite - or because of - these early setbacks, Fred's main interests are politics and diplomacy and he maintains the strong hope that certain unfortunate international incidents in which he has coincidentally been involved will be quickly forgotten, reminding authorities that none would compel him to tick any of the boxes in the green US Visa Waiver form.
Specialities: Cultural issues and their interplay with politics
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