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Mark Tayar is a young professional based in Canberra, Australia with key professional interests in:

• Educating and training people in international business, marketing and entrepreneurship
• Designing interactive and engaging eLearning modules
• Publishing academic research in innovation, social entrepreneurship and international business
• Improving efficiency in the social sector and developing new social investment models
• New venture creation involving software, clean technologies or wireless devices

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Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) Australia

September 2006 – Present, Co-Founder

Identifying an opportunity to start an entrepreneurs club in Australia, I worked in a team to start a prominent international society in Australia. This required a colleague and I to present at Stanford University –where the society is based.

Lancaster University Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

October – December 2005, Intern

This brief role was completed while on a student exchange to Lancaster in England. Working in the Social Entrepreneurship team I helped five student groups obtain ₤25,000 in Millennium Development grants. I also interviewed twelve entrepreneurship academics in order to prepare posters which captured the spirit of the institute.

Global Leadership Program

March 2005 – Present, Active Member and Retreat Facilitator

This program significantly complemented my degree by offering a range of activities designed to improve leadership skills. These included keynote speeches, colloquia and seminars, a symposium in Canberra and a week-long leadership conference in the Czech Republic. I was also chosen ahead of 1200 program participants to meet Condoleezza Rice and to help run a leadership retreat.

Head Hunters Career Advancement Society

September 2004 – Present, Founding Partner, President then Advisor

Working to improve the employability of students, I helped found this society. I then became president and now hold an advisory role on the board. This role taught effective team leadership and small business management. I planned and implemented several teaching workshops and competitions. I am proud that my succession planning proved successful.

Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Australia and SIFE United Kingdom

August 2004 - July 2005, President

With the previous executives all graduating I managed to form a new team and start 21 new teaching projects created economic opportunities others. These included a conference on entrepreneurship for high school students and fundraising for the disadvantaged. These efforts were presented to a panel of distinguished judges at the national competition.

October – December 2005 – Project Leader, Lancaster University

While many students treat exchange as a holiday I enjoyed remaining an active student. Through the SIFE Chapter at my host university I started the Cash Kids financial literacy website after securing a ₤5000 ‘Big Boost’ grant. This involved recruiting a team of five volunteers executing the entire project in less than three months. I also storyboarded a business education film and helped started this project by writing a successful proposal for US$1000 funding from HSBC.

February 2006 – Present – Senior Advisor

By committing more than just my year as President I guided executives through the process of rerunning projects I created. I still offer new ideas for projects, edit proposals, and help measure social outcomes. This measurement is aided by my postgraduate training in Social Entrepreneurship.

• Received full marks on major research projects in sociology and international business strategy
• Recruited by Macquarie University due to successful event and project management for a social venture
• Devised and implemented a project plan and led a team of 25 to run a global student conference with a $100,000 budget
• Completion of the Global Leadership Program with the highest number of leadership experience points ever achieved in the program's history
• Awarded four separate travel scholarships worth $7,500 and travelled to 27 countries
• Became one of the youngest supervisors to ever work for Liquorland
• Founded the Australian subsidiary of the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) from Stanford University
• Completed a postgraduate social entrepreneurship subject with a distinction grade while still an undergraduate student

• Travelling and learning from different cultures
• Walking, swimming and generally enjoying nature
• Reading books on business, spirituality and biographies
• Campaigning for equal rights and civil liberties
• Teaching others about innovation and corporate social responsibility
• Running educational events for disadvantaged young people
• Volunteer work adapting business practice to the not-for-profit sector

Through self-reflection and the self-directed search interpretive report, I have found that:

• I like being around other people, am interested in how people get along, and like to help other people with their problems.
• I enjoy creating original work and have a good imagination.
• I like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, promotions, and group or personal contact.
• I am spontaneous, talkative, personal, enthusiastic, convincing, risk-taking, and competitive, and usually thrive in a team-oriented, adventurous, informal, innovative, big picture-oriented, varied environment.
• I am convincing, cooperative, friendly, generous, helpful, idealistic, kind, responsible, social, sympathetic, tactful, understanding, and warm.
• I have leadership and public speaking abilities, am interested in money and politics, and like to influence people.
• I am also enterprising in that I am acquisitive, adventurous, ambitious, attention-getting, domineering, energetic, extroverted, impulsive, optimistic, pleasure-seeking, self-confident, and sociable.