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Born in Melbourne, Australia Michael founded his first business when he was 16 years old and has been an avid Internet entrepreneur for over 20 years. After completing his MBA and founding a number of ecommerce businesses Michael served as a director of the prestigious Australian Internet Industry Association, the last two of which he was elected to the position of vice-chairman. As a member of the board he contributed to forming Internet industry policies for; cyber-crime, copyright as well as chairing the committee for establishing the online advertising standards for Australia.Michael has been a domain investor for over 14 years and together with his business partner, David Gibbs, founded ParkLogic which both maximizes domain revenue and manages domain portfolios for clients the world over. Michael is a regular industry commentator via his blog whizzbangsblog.com and regularly speaks at global industry events.Both an avid writer and reader Michael has recently completed his first science fiction novel, “Battleframe” which will be published later in January. He has been happily married to Roselyn for 27 years and they have three wonderful children.