Joseph T.Riach
Business Consultant, Investment Advisor,
Freelance Writer, Wake Up Personal Mentoring and Lifestyle Coach, Wake Up 2 Wealth Internet
Marketing and Algarve Golf Holidays in the Algarve Portugal
Background :: Press Book ::
Curriculum Vitae :: Contact
BACKGROUND
Joseph T.Riach established Algarve Golf
Holidays in Faro in 2002 shortly after his arrival in Portugal. He continues to
manage the business.
He also conducts
Wake Up Personal
Mentoring and Business Guidance Courses, runs
Wake Up 2 Wealth Internet Marketing, is a qualified practicing
Investment Consultant and
has written a beginners guide to
Equity Options Trading
and a Success and Wealth Manual,
both based on his own actual experience and 'inside' knowledge.
His writing also includes Business Plans, Publicity Literature, Sales and Website Scripts,
plus Short Stories and Humourous, Satirical, Sporting and Topical Interest Articles for publication,
often under the pen of 'Petrus'.
Contact Here re. projects and for more information.
His professional background is in Business Advisory Work, Sales, Marketing and
Financial Services.
He ran his own Business and Financial Consultancy and group of small businesses in the UK for 27 years
before moving to France in 1997.
He is an Award-Winning Sales, Marketing and Creative Solutions in business specialist.
Tom, as he is known, was a seven handicap golfer while a member of the Caledonian Club at
Aberdeen Links and played regularly in North East Alliance competitions. He was also a
member of the Northern club at the same links, a founder member of Newmachar Golf Club
and a country member at Murrayshall, Perth.
PRESS BOOK
July 2005 :: December 1989 ::
June 1989 :: February 1987 ::
July 1963
Vilamoura 2005
On stage at Vilamoura Casino, June 2005, presenting prizes to winning holidaymakers in
my capacity as Consultant Marketing Manager of Sunterra plc on the occasion of Thomas Cook's 100th
anniversary cabaret. I'm on the right!
Photo Top Right.
Aberdeen 'Press and Journal', December 1989
This news clip is self-explanatory! As an agent for Hill Samuel Investment Services I
became one of the top earners in the UK industry and won many awards. At each of the
international conventions mentioned I conducted work-shop seminars on my marketing and
sales ideas and techniques. Later, in 1990, I established an East of
Scotland agency for London & Manchester Assurance. I set up two offices, one in Aberdeen
and one in Dundee and recruited, trained and operated a sales force of twenty-two.
In 1992 Aegon Life bought out this agency from me and I continued to successfully represent
them until 1996. During this time I twice passed the Chartered Insurance Institute Financial
Planning Certificate qualification in Sales, Marketing, Pensions and Life Assurance and was
an accredited Senior Advisor in subjects Corporate Investment, Offshore Investment, Corporate
Pension Schemes and Taxation and Personal Investment and Protection.
Press Cutting Middle Left.
Letter of Recognition, June 1989
This letter from the then Regional Director of Hill Samuel Investment Services, an arm
of the respected merchant bank, bears testament to my prodigious sales production. As it
states, my results demonstrated application and perseverance of a high order, in addition
to which I also achieved a persistancy level of 98% - an exceptional figure in the industry
at the time. In the work-shop and training seminars which I
subsequently conducted for industry groups, an explanation of the ethics and methods I
employed in achieving these results formed a central and much sought after theme.
See Middle Right.
Rio de Janeiro, 1987
Carnaval time in Rio de Janeiro! What an occasion, what a city! An amazing way to work - and
play! During the time which I spent there I set up a temporary office from which I conducted
a mail-shot campaign to all my clients and prospective clients in the U.K. This promoted
the concept of an exotic lifestyle being achievable for anyone who truly wants it - as
instanced by my own presence in Rio. This simple project directly generated a six figure
sum in new business gross earnings for the companies which I ran at that time!
Photo shows me keeping good company(!) ... and eating a streamer!
Photo Bottom Right.
Another Busby Babe, July 1963
When I went to Manchester United in August 1963 (having chosen them over Arsenal), I fully
expected to become a famous football star! The club lodging in which I stayed was in
Stretford just behind Old Trafford. My landlady, Mrs.Wilde, built me up on raw eggs, endless
pints of milk and steak every day and ensured that I was safely tucked up in bed by 10pm
each night! My wage was a princely Six Pounds sterling per week and my immediate next door
neighbour was George Best! (I cried the day he died in 2005). So almost the start of
something big but my 'career' stuttered and spluttered until ended by injury in 1969.
But not before a well-respected former international player once wrote of me, "Tom Riach
is physical, skillful and clever. This was the finest display of centre-forward play I have
seen at any level in twenty years." So that was something ... I did wear the shirt and
I do have the memory! The Aberdeen Evening Express, July 1963.
Article
Bottom Left.
CURRICULUM VITAE
JOSEPH T.RIACH, AWARD-WINNING SALES AND
MARKETING SPECIALIST
Summary :: Contact ::
General Information
Work and Projects :: Other Projects
Summary - Key Words
DIRECTOR, MANAGER, EXECUTIVE.
SALES, MARKETING, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.
PERMANENT, OPERATIONAL CONSULTANCY,
CONTRACT, INTERIM.
Summary - Achievements
CAREER BUSINESS WON FOR CLIENTS EXCEEDS 300 MILLION DOLLARS.
NUMBER ONE NEW MORTGAGE SALESPERSON IN ENTIRE UK INDUSTRY 1989.
EARNED 250 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ANNUAL SALES COMMISSIONS IN EACH OF 1988,1989 and 1990.
MEMBER OF MILLION DOLLAR ROUND TABLE FIVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS (1986 - 1990).
ESTABLISHED AND MANAGED NUMEROUS PROJECTS FOR BLUE CHIPS, SMES & SELF.
Summary - Work
1997-Present
FREELANCE SALES, MARKETING, GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS
SPECIALIST IN FRANCE (1997-2002) AND PORTUGAL (2002-NOW).
1979-1996
RAN OWN SALES, MARKETING AND GENERAL BUSINESS CONSULTANCY IN THE U.K.
(18 EMPLOYEES).
1986-1996
RAN OWN FINANCIAL SERVICES AND INVESTMENT SALES AND FINANCIAL
BROKERAGE BUSINESS IN THE U.K.
(22 EMPLOYEES).
1989-1996
RAN OWN PRE-SCHOOL NURSERY COMPANY
(34 EMPLOYEES AT 6 SITES).
Contact
Urb.Monte Azevedo, 8600 Lagos and Rua do
Bocage, 8000 Faro, both Algarve, Portugal.
Telephone : (00351) 914021159.
Email : Click Here
General Information
Professional Qualifications
Chartered Insurance Institute - Sales, Marketing, Offshore Investment, Corporate
Planning, Life Assurance, Pensions. Member of Life Insurance Association.
Skills
Company Directorship and Management, Sales, Client Management, Marketing, Project
Planning and Implementation, Operational Problem Solving.
Projects
Financial Services, Investment, Property, Personnel, IT, Tourism - Private,
'Blue-Chip' and International.
Computer
Computer literate, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point etc., Market Eye.
HTML and CSS capable.
Languages
English, French and Portuguese.
Education
Grammar School. 'A' levels English, Geography, Mathematics, Physics and
French.
Personal
Status - Single. Nationality - British. Residencia - Portuguese.
Employer - Self.
Work and Projects
1997-Present :: 1979-1996 ::
Major Projects :: Other Projects
2002-present
Consultant Director in establishment and ongoing
management of Algarve Golf Holidays.
2002-present
Host of
Wake Up Personal
Mentoring and Business Guidance courses for visiting clients.
2011-present
Investment Consultant representing
Affinity Global Wealth in the Algarve,
Portugal and Spain.
2012-present
Devise and manage the
Wake Up 2 Wealth
Internet Marketing programme.
2010
Design and build website and write all web scripts for
Algarve Golf Holidays.
2010
Conduct bilingual workshops (English/Portuguese) in Time and Stress
Management on behalf of
'Euro Trends' Language School, Lisboa
for their client 'Central de Cerveja S.A.'
2007-2010
Design and implement Marketing and Sales programme
for 'ACar4U' Car Rental, Portugal.
2009
Consultant Sales Director in establishment of Sales programme for an
independent TV channel.
2009
Author of English language and Sales text for the
'Frupor S.A.' website and promotional literature.
2005-2006
Consultant Business Development Director for
Buying Property In Portugal.
2005
Marketing Consultant for
Pestana Hotels buyer acquisition
programme.
2002-2005
Consultant Marketing and Sales Manager for
Sunterra Holiday Club,
Portugal. Initiated and developed contracts with First Choice, T.Cook, Thomsons, Sky, Libra,
Air Tours and Cosmos tour companies.
2002
Sales consultancy and investigative research project for a private
holiday club client in Portugal.
1998-2002
Business Development Advisor to
Marlene Black International Interior-Design
Consultancy, France.
1998-2002
Devised and set up
Wake Up Personal
Mentoring and Business Guidance courses for visiting clients to France and now
continue to conduct these events in the Algarve.
1997-2000
Wrote a 'lifestyle and business
guidance' manual - see
More Money Less Effort and a guide to trading in equity options futures -
see
Equity Options Trading.
1979-1996
Traded as The NBL Business Consultancy, Abel & Guy
and Boyle Accountancy Scotland (18 staff).
My personal roles : (a) General Development and Promotion of the company.
(b) Personal Confidante and Advisor to clients.
(c) Frequently worked on-site with clients on an interim basis, short to long term.
I thereby personally acted as (a) Sales, Development and Marketing Director and
(b) Financial, Personnel, Operations and General Director/Manager in a diverse range of
businesses including, but not exclusively, the following :
Building Maintenance, Pritchard Service Group London; Offshore Refridgeration, P.W.Adamson,
Aberdeen and Houston; Personnel Recruitment and Human Resources Management, Secretarial
and Offshore Staff Services, Glasgow.
My work has taken me to Kuwait (Hampson Engineering, Birmingham), Brazil, Jamaica, Miami
and Morocco (Hill Samuel Investment Services, London), Norway (Glensol, Haguesund) and
Greece (Nick Kalyvis Trading, Athens). And later to France and now Portugal.
Major Projects
Financial Services and Investment, 1986 to 1990
Established and ran a Financial
Services Sales and Investment Consultancy operation as National Business Loans, Aberdeen
and as an exclusive agency of Hill Samuel Investment Services, London. In each of five
consecutive years I was one of the leading six producers of new business in the entire UK
industry and in 1989 the leading mortgage producer. I attained 'Top Achiever and International Conference
Delegate' status. I was contracted to conduct workshop training seminars on Sales, Marketing
and Technical aspects of Financial Service and Investment products for the staffs of a
number of major companies. The innovative marketing plan I created is now industry standard
practice.
Pre-School Nurseries, 1989 to 1996
Established and managed Cloud 9 Pre-School
Nurseries, Aberdeen and Edinburgh which by 1994 employed thirty-four staff at six nurseries.
I wrote a business plan for the development of a national chain which 'Investors In Industry'
(3i) were keen to have me develop and for which they offered me rolling financing.
Financial Services and Investments, 1990 to 1996
Established and managed an East
of Scotland agency for London & Manchester Assurance, Exeter. Recruited, trained and
operated a sales team of 22. Aegon Life later bought out this agency from me and I
continued to manage it for them.
Other Significant Projects
(All Devised, Prepared, Sold and then Operated by me)
* A contract with major national food manufacturer, Grampian Country Chickens, Banff
consulting regarding staffing a new, multi-million pound factory complex.
* Appointment as the in-house contractor providing a range of personnel advisory and
financial services to Tayside Regional Health Trust, Dundee.
* Retrieved back into the personal ownership of my clients their former firm which had been
taken over by a hostile venture capital company (name with-held for legal reasons).
* Redundancy counselling contract to support and advise 600 redundant staff of Tayside
Regional Health Trust, Dundee.
* Assimilated and prepared over two year period the entire legal proof in a substantial
civil action lawsuit brought by (and won by) my client, P.W.Adamson, Aberdeen and Houston.
* Operational Contract Co-ordinator for the Ministry of Defence at Rosyth Royal Naval
Dockyard at the time of privatisation and contracting out of internal services.
* Consultant Operations Contractor Co-ordinator for Debenhams plc in the run up to the
opening of their Princes Street, Edinburgh store in 1981.
* As Operations Consultant for Pritchard Service Group, London I devised and operated
the rescue of two major maintenance contracts (one with BAA involving three major
airports, the other with the NCS supermarket, department store and retail chain).
* Additionally - Import and Sale Of Cosmetics (Kare Solem, Norway);
Design and Export
of Whisky (Nick Kalyvis Trading, Athens);
Telephone Equipment Sales (Callstyle,
Scotland);
Contract Maintenance (Premier Services, Scotland).
All work here-in referred to entailed extensive Planning, Marketing, Selling and Management.
Also the Authorship of all material from the original Plans, Business Studies and
submissions through to Marketing and Sales documents, in-house instructional manuals and
reports.
All the afore-said accomplished by Joseph T.Riach.
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Business Consultant, Investment Advisor,
Freelance Writer, Wake Up Personal Mentoring and Lifestyle Coach, Wake Up 2 Wealth Internet
Marketing and Algarve Golf Holidays in the Algarve Portugal
Joseph T.Riach
