Here is a "brief" potted history of my career path; which inevitably has affected my life path:

• I was born in London.

• I studied Economics and Accounting at Edinburgh University (1980-84) which was great fun, and a lovely city to study and live in. I even managed to gain an MA, despite the distractions!

• I then joined KPMG London (1984-1989), and qualified as a chartered accountant; very hard work!

• I joined Philips Electronics UK (1989) as an Internal Audit Manager; travelling to many parts of the UK and Ireland. I visited factories, sales organisations etc and met a very broad cross section of people.

• In the early 90's my work took a more international flavour, and I spent time in such places as Simi Valley, Salt Lake City, Darmstadt, Best, Eindhoven and Seoul. I even visited the Demilitarised Zone, on the border between North and South Korea. All of which I enjoyed tremendously (can an internal auditor have fun?), and can attest to the fact that it was most definitely life enhancing.

• In 1996 I moved to Stockholm (a wonderful city); to set up the Philips Nordic audit department. This gave me the opportunity to regularly travel at the company's expense (why pay for something yourself when you can get someone else to?) to; Norway, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. These were life enhancing experiences, which I will never forget. I also set up the world-wide Fraud Investigation Department for Philips NV. During my time in Sweden I met my partner (Eva).

• We moved to London in 2000, and I joined De Beers as Head of Audit (can you see a pattern forming here?) to set up their new department. Yet more travel, at other people's expense, this time to Namibia, South Africa (I went down a diamond mine there), Russia and Switzerland.

• I left De Beers in 2001, and decided to write a book and set up a website. I have always enjoyed cooking (I started testing my "skills" in the kitchen when I was seven); and decided to compile a selection of my favourite recipes (approx 120), coupled with a travelogue of the places that I have visited and experiences I have enjoyed (eg quaffing whisky with a colleague at 2:00AM under the stars in a game reserve near Windhoek; whilst the lions, and other assorted wildlife, roared and grunted in the background).

I designed, built and am running a suite of websites under KenFrost.com "The Living Brand".

• Swedish cuisine.

• Restaurant reviews.

• The creation, and management, of a world class internal audit department.

• My experiences of fraud and fraud detection.

• A light hearted diary covering one year of my working life in Philips.

Phoenix's mission is to marry investors with investment opportunities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK); in order to take advantage of the the economic reforms, which are taking place there, which have made foreign investment easier.

I am also a director of Hana Electronics JVC and Sinji JVC, which are based in Pyongyang DPRK. Hana manufactures and sells DVD and VCD players, it also manufactures and sells DVD's and VCD's. Sinji's main areas of operations are; retail (consumer electronics, household necessities etc), software and artificial flower manufacturing for export.

I am happy to discuss and explore any business opportunties/proposals (both national and international); which make use of my experience and skill sets.

The skill sets and experience I offer include:

• Over 20 years international experience (Europe, USA, Asia and Africa) within Phoenix Commercial Ventures Ltd, De Beers, Philips and KPMG.

• Management and leadership skills, eg the successful establishment and development of the Philips Forensic Investigation Department, the Philips Nordic Audit Department and the De Beers Audit Department.

• Performing and managing professional independent reviews that identify risks/control gaps providing recommendations for both the mitigation of these risks/control gaps, and general improvement of the business.

• In depth experience of working with a variety of IT packages from pre to post implementation stages including; SAP, Triton, MFG Pro, Scala and Sage.

• In depth international exposure to a variety of manufacturing, commercial, construction and administrative/back office organisations during my years in De Beers, Philips and KPMG.

• Constant exposure (through monitoring, mentoring and advising) to organisational change eg; restructuring, cost cutting, centralisation of back office functions, introduction of the Euro, IT changes, centralisation of warehousing and corporate delisting.

• High level interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to interact with people at all functional levels from a variety of cultural backgrounds.

• Experience, and detailed knowledge, of best practice with respect to corporate codes of conduct via:
  - Membership of the Philips General Business Principles Committee

  - Developing the Philips General Business Principles casebook

  - Custodianship and maintenance of the Philips General Business Principles Database

  - Aiding and advising on the development of the De Beers Code of Conduct.

• Forensic experience arising from:
  - Personal involvement in fraud investigations in De Beers and Philips

  - Establishing and developing the role of the Philips Forensic Audit Co-ordinator

  - Custodianship and maintenance of the Philips Fraud Database.

• Experience of designing and setting up a website.

Thank you for your time.

Ken

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