PieLAB
An entrepreneur, investor and self-professed business geek, Chris has built and exited 4 businesses in 4 different industries, demonstrating his ability as both a founder and investor who can start, grow, invest in, and most importantly exit businesses across multiple industries. Three of these businesses (Rental Express, First Class Accounts and Scody Performance Wear) have become some of the largest of their type in Australia.
In his last business, Rental Express, Chris grew the company to become the largest privately owned property management business in Queensland, with over $2.4 billion of property under management which he sold to BRW rich lister Paul Little in 2015. In 2016, Chris founded PieLAB Venture Partners, which invests in real estate related technology businesses and more recently PieLAB Council Capital which invests in more conventional businesses. PieLAB Council Capital assists owners of profitable, recurring revenue businesses grow their business over the long term with assistance from a panel of CEO’s who provide advice, mentoring and support.
His key skills are operations management, building operational excellence in people-intensive businesses, corporate strategy and capital allocation (i.e., how to spend money effectively to scale a business), and recruiting, mentoring, and engaging exceptionally talented people, and designing incentive structures that help generate performance.
Chris holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sports Science from Southern Cross University and an MBA from Melbourne Business School.
PieLAB
PieLAB Council Capital is a company that invests in small businesses and helps them grow. They are not a private equity firm, and they are not looking to simply grow your business and then sell it. They prefer to partner for the long term. They invest their capital, experience, and unrivalled network to develop people into great leaders and help them build great businesses.