Meet the team
Eric Tjoeng – CEO and Founder – Sydney Top 10 Small and Medium Enterprise Business Advisors to Watch in 2024
Board/Business Advisor, Business Strategist, Business Growth, Future Proofing and Exit Specialist.
Eric Tjoeng is a Board Business Advisor, Business Strategist, Business Growth, Future Proofing, and Exit Specialist. He has been recognised by The Enterprise World as one of the top 10 SME business advisors to watch in 2024. This recognition highlights successful leaders who have offered creative and innovative solutions, serving as a source of hope for the new generation of entrepreneurs and inspiring many others with their extraordinary journeys.
Small and Medium Enterprises will benefit from Eric's great knowledge of business strategy, growth, future proofing, and exit. He combines this knowledge with his proven methodology, years of experience, the ability to make the complex simple, proactive approach, agility to adapt and flourish, to transform and achieve successful outcomes for his clients.
Eric Tjoeng, the CEO and founder of Business Growth and Exit Specialists Pty Ltd (BGES), has also been recognised as one of the top 10 Australian business strategists and experts to watch in 2021 by the Australian Business Journal. Additionally, Business Growth and Exit Specialists Pty Ltd. was named as one of the top 10 strategic planning services companies in Australia in 2023 by Business Management Review.
His clients achieved exceptional results through Eric's unique combination of skills, knowledge, experiences, insights, and creativity in fine-tuning the Business Strategy, providing a Financial Road Map, improving Target Marketing and Sales, Financial control, Human Resources, and Operation Management, including being named as companies in the BRW Fast Starter List, Business Award Winners.
Eric began his career with Deloitte Haskins and Sells Australia in 1981 and has since held various senior roles with leading Australian companies. He joined CAD Partners in 2005 and was eventually promoted to Senior Partner and Joint CEO, receiving numerous awards for his contributions. In 2015, he founded BGES with the vision of using a fresh, pragmatic, and innovative approach to help SMEs achieve exceptional results with a great Return On Investment.
As a strong advocate of lifelong learning, Eric has obtained several academic qualifications, including a Bachelor of Economics, Graduate Diploma in Information Technology, Graduate Diploma in Management, Master of Business Administration, Master of Arts, and Executive Coaching certification. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders, as well as a Fellow of the Certified Practising Accountants. Eric actively contributes to the business community as an executive member of local business chambers and participates in judging panels for Business Awards at the local, state, and national levels.
Key Expertise:
Business growth:
Business growth strategy and implementation
Scenario analysis
Financial road map
Profit, cash flow and business value improvement
Target marketing and sales
Strategic human resource management
Operation efficiency improvement
Business systematisation
Business sustainability/future proofing:
Business continuity strategy and actions to cope with sudden major disruptions such as the GFC and COVID-19
Dynamic scenario analysis and cash flow analysis to cope with rapid changes
Future proofing strategy and actions.
Business exit:
Business exit strategy and implementation
Profit, cash flow and business value improvement
Business valuation
Due diligence
Business sale information memorandum
Business Speaker
Passionate, thought-provoking, relevant, pragmatic tipsEric Tjoeng is an engaging SME business speaker, offering real-life practical examples that work through his successful engagement with SMEs that produce exceptional results, including placement among BRW’s fastest-growing companies and business awards.
Why Eric?
- Eric is passionate about business growth, sustainability, and exit.
- Eric has an enviable track record in producing exceptional results.
- Eric has been recognised as one of the 10 Australian Business Strategists & Experts to Watch in 2021 by the Australian Business Journal.
- Eric’s presentation is interesting, sharing his wide knowledge and proven experience in plain English.
- Eric is engaging; he likes interacting with the audience and sharing provoking thoughts and possible solutions.
- Eric gives his audience some immediate practical actions to improve business outcomes.
Some of Eric’s key topics:
- How a strategic approach to business growth and sustainability ensures high performance and exceptional outcomes.
- How strategic exit will get more for your business than you would expect.
- How to use innovative approaches to achieve super-profits of more than 90x.
- Soft issues and hard issues of business leadership and management – why they are critical to business sustainability and growth.
- Merger and acquisition: why, what and how to achieve the desired outcomes.
- How to achieve group goal congruent and divisional collaboration to achieve divisional and group success.
Graham Sanders – Sydney
Associate Partner – Business Advisory, Accounting and Financial Control
Graham has over 35 years’ experience in the corporate world mostly in Manufacturing and Services sectors. Fulfilled roles including Finance Director, Company Secretary, Financial Controller and Commercial Manager.
For more than ten years, Graham has been assisting SME’s as their CFO/Financial Business Advisor. This involves working on the business with the business owner to initially stabilise the business if required and then work on strategies to grow the business and reach the owners’ goals.
Specialisation:
Developing business strategies
Profit and cash flow improvement
Developing key performance indicators
Business systematisation
Financial control
Accounting services for timely and accurate accounts
Management reporting
Business efficiency software
Business valuation
Business exit
George Mavros – Sydney
Associate Partner – Sales, Marketing and Intellectual Property
George Mavros has been in sales, marketing and distribution, including product procurement, for over 30 years. He has represented companies like Artline Marking Pens, WD40, Armor All, Alcan Aluminium, Barilla Pastas and Spaghetti. He has also sold to Majors in most areas of the market place, be it grocery, confectionery, hardware, pharmaceutical or government.
He created his first product at the age of 11, at the same time as he started his first business venture. George has been involved with Intellectual Property for more than 25 years and since 2006 has been providing IP consulting services to the government, SME’s and multinational trading companies.
He has a down to earth strategic approach to all his consulting projects, recommendations are tailored to individual needs and circumstances.
Specialisations:
Marketing and sales project management
Market research
Strategic sales and distribution channels
Sales process and execution
Sales and other soft skills business training and coaching
Product procurement cost effective overseas outsourcing
Intellectual property, trademarks and patents
Jason Tjoeng – Sydney
Associate Partner – Online and Social Media Specialist
Jason is the Co-Founder of Turbo-Spec.com with over 650,000 likes on Facebook and the ability to reach over 10 million people weekly, this positioned Jason to assist many businesses with their online and social media strategy.
Initially, as a hobby, Jason created content, engaged fans and facilitated discussions and the sharing of Turbos and automotive related content through Facebook with more than 16,000 likes in less than a year.
Following the success of ‘Turbos’, Turbo-Spec.com was founded by Jason Tjoeng & Josh Ong. This community has now grown to over 650,000 fans and has become a community and forum for anything Turbos related and to share the Turbo-Spec Lifestyle.
Jason has gained valuable experiences and knowledge in online and social media, management consultancy, business development, marketing and sales, relationship management within Management Consultancy, Retail, Legal Services, Finance, Banking, FMCG, Import/Export, Manufacturing, Automotive, Construction, Printing, Insurance, Fitness, and Debt Recovery areas.
With Jason’s experience and holistic, pragmatic approach to Online and Social Media Strategy and Implementation, Jason has been advising some of the BGES key clients and contributing to their business successes.
Jason holds a Diploma in Business Management and Associate Degree in Law qualifications, and he is a firm believer in lifelong learning.
Key Expertise:
Online and social media strategy
Online and social media marketing
Website and website redesign
Social media set up and implementation
Marketing and sales
Joseph Essey – Sydney
Associate Partner – Small & Medium Business Advisory, Accounting and Financial Control
As an MBA qualified advisor to the small business sector, Joseph is a commercially minded and hands-on business mentor with over 15 years’ experience driving the finance function in fast growing private organisations.
Joseph’s experience in small business management started in his family’s distribution business where from a young age he was making orders, helping with deliveries and calling customers for money. His diverse career has included stints with a number of large businesses and corporates in finance and business management roles including Caroma Dorf, PFD Foodservices & Nisbets Australia but his passion is in helping small businesses to grow and achieve their goals.
What differentiates Joseph to most business consultants is that the majority of his expertise has been acquired through working in growing small businesses and with their owners and managers to overcome the unique challenges they face. This includes helping to build his families own distribution business and then orchestrating its multi-million-dollar sale in 2018.
Specialising in finance and commercial matters, his expertise and skills span broadly across operations but with a focus in financial accounting and reporting and maintaining & advising on systems, controls & processes related to the finance function.
Key Expertise:
Finance & Accounting Control, Analysis & Reporting
Business strategic planning and implementation
Profit & Cashflow Improvement
Budgeting and Forecasting
Working Capital & Treasury management
Process and Systems implementation & Improvement
Accounts & Office Team Mentoring
Key contract reviews and negotiations
Lina Tjoeng – Sydney
Associate Partner – Legal Services
Lina is the Principal Solicitor at MLC Lawyers with a very successful multi-award winning practice assisting clients with their various legal needs. Besides her legal expertise, she also has many years’ experience dealing with a multitude of government and non-government agencies, community leaders and community issues.
With a vision and passion for social justice, people & community development, Lina also leads and manages the Khmer Community of NSW Inc. management team and staff to achieve its vision and objectives in helping the Cambodian community in New South Wales and abroad from 2007 to 2018 on a Pro-bono basis.
She believes that her business is a people business and the firm’s objective is to help clients with their legal issues and make their experience as pleasant as possible from the time they contact her to the time the assignment is done, and during the post assignment communication and relationship.
She provides multilingual capabilities through her team and Interpreter services to ensure smooth communication, and at the same time to have empathy with their culture and customs, make them feel welcome and at ease by speaking in plain language as much as possible during their journey.
She works with Barristers in complex cases to ensure that she serves her clients’ needs with the right mix of expertise and resources.
She obtained her first degree in Social Science from Macquarie University followed by her second degree in Law from Macquarie University as well her Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Sydney College of Law.
Martin Collins LL.B – Sydney
Associate Partner – Legal Services
Martin has been practising as a solicitor since 1986 and currently operates from offices in Sydney Norwest.
Over the years Martin’s focus has been to provide services to small-medium businesses which are the backbone of the economy and meeting the demands of businesses in the legal areas.
Martin provides advice on contracts, terms of trade, purchase and sale of business. Martin also advises and acts in litigation both commercial and personal.
Employment law is a particular focus, especially employment contracts and termination, as well as Estate Planning for the small and medium business owners. A proper will and Power of Attorney is a necessary part of the documentation required and is also a part of succession planning. Martin has completed his Masters in Wills and Estates, and he has a keen interest in developments in this area.