Interview with Ken Wood

I have recently returned to Auckland NZ from a trip to Sydney Australia to interview successful businessman Ken Wood. A serial entrepreneur Ken was raised by an entrepreneurial factory and has been encouraged to start businesses in many senses. A great follower of Tony Robbins, Ken was able to meet his future wife Karen in the personal development arena. Together Karen and Ken own the promotion company that put on the wonderful Christopher Howard events in New Zealand, Australia and the UK.

Ken's background is technical as an electronics engineer. Luckily he was one of the few graduates employed in Australia's only chip foundry after finishing university. He realised early, lucky Ken, that Sales and Marketing where essential skills if he was to go in to business for himself and he took a half technical half sales job when Intel closed down the Australian foundry. Then he took a job he hated and that help to create the drive to start out for himself. During that time he worked in the evenings and on the weekend to research the market and come up with a business plan. What eventuated was mainly successful but held back by the technical partner who held the business back and eventually bought Ken's shares.

Ken then started setting up systems for Universal Events the promotion company based in Australia. He soon realised there was an opportunity for other small to medium enterprises to also use these systems and IT on Tap was born. IT on Tap gives small to medium businesses with between 5-100 employees in Australia access to enterprise quality systems and top technicians for a reasonable subscription fee. You can check them out on the web at IT on Tap