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Tony Hakim The Adviser

I chair the Anti-Depression Association of Australia (ADAA) in which Tony Hakim guides in. The organization won't be feasible if it has hasn't been for him. He showed us a few approaches to help make this work. For quite a while now, we are actually planning to develop the ADAA. The project is tremendous. Neither of us did a not-for-profit project before, so it's different to us.

One important thing that's good here is that considering the fact that we are working together, we already had that professional connection. I first met up with Tony Hakim at high school when we were both at Marist Brothers Pagewood. I knew his sibling and gotten to know Tony due to him.

When I left school, I haven't heard anything from Tony. I was then a specialist at the same time he had gotten a small Telco business.

A former job of mine was doing work for the Minister for Consumer Affairs, creating the minister's personal answers to questions and letters. That period of time taught me the ability of reading and interpreting an act of parliament.

After I looked into Tony's field, I read the act and came to the realization there was an opportunity. If Tony could aggregate his customers' billings, then he could resell Telco services that were then just available to Optus and Telstra.

So I made a decision to drive down his farm to present his alternatives. That got Tony into re-selling, which changed his venture. Starting with 16 staff, it rose to 200 at the end of the year ... Tony then marketed this new firm to Digicall.

I went to build my own family. He went to build his main venture. Then after three years, he went back and asked me to do exactly what we might create this time around. I told him that I always desired a national Telco company.

We wed the billing platform to hardware systems just so our clients could save money. Jeff Kennett, the chair of Beyond Blue (the National Depression Initiative), became our very first chairman. Undeniably, before the year ends, we went national and got 500 staff. It is a fantastic concept that customers might utilize their bills to pay for other Telco expenses. Customers are coming after the plans that is more conducive for the majority. We made it benefit landline systems and tens of thousands of people profited.

Which brings us to the present-day ADAA. Tony, for me, is the icon of funding and approach. But to me he is more a acquaintance. One time, I informed him that we could somehow fix anxiety and depression, only it will certainly cost us incredibly. He evaluated the current business model, recognizing the vital "fix" of the service. He at that point instructed to put it on an online platform that might just cost a lot to put together - but we simply had to spend this once. From the set-up day, the expense will be smaller. Concurrently, since it's online, it would be able to get to a wider and farther patrons.

Tony aided me to come up with numerous product which is set to commence on March 18. Possibly,they will help thousands of consumers.

He is just a silent person, but generous that sometimes he is being abused by others. You can see I pride to name Tony Hakim a friend.