Board Director, Hon. Advisor & Head of Finance

• Professor of Finance, School of Business, Bond University (Ret.)
• Executive Director, PacRim Investment Analytics LLC
• Chairman, Professional Solutions International Pty. Ltd.
• Director, Gryphon EdInvest Associates International
• Ex Director, Citigold Corporation (ASX code “CTO”)
  • Chairman, FX Future Pty Group
  • Director, Faleula Investments Pty Ltd
  • Director, National University of Samoa & Chairman, NUS Consulting

  Prof. Blood has a background in agribusiness and third world public-sector investment & had basic training as an agro-economist but completed coursework for the Johns Hopkins University Sc.D in Operations Research. He is an acknowledged expert on international & offshore investment analysis. Dr. Blood has worked for World Bank, Asian Development Bank and other multilateral organisations in some dozen countries and former senior official in UNDP (in charge of US$500M portfolio).

  Prof. Blood taught at Bond University, U. Qld, U. London, was a Visiting Prof. at Texas A&M, Clemson University, Johns Hopkins University, etc. Peter, a Marshall Scholar and Henry George Plimmer Fellow, Imperial College, London and a former Fulbright Senior Fellow in the U.S., is the only Australian to have graduated from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s Advanced Derivatives course and is one of only a dozen Australians carrying the coveted Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) designation from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission & the only Australian to complete the Robert Kennedy College International Taxation Law Postgraduate Diploma.

  Peter Blood holds the qualifications of:
  • BSc Agr (University of Sydney)
  • DIC (Imperial College Science & Technology UK)
  • PhD (University of London)
  Plus Diploma & Certificate qualifications in:
  • International Business from the Pacific Asian Management Institute,
  • College of Business Administration, U. of Hawaii
  • Bond Technology from the International Securities Market Association (ISMA, Zürich) & U. of Reading:
  • Advanced Derivatives from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange & DePaul University
  • PG Diploma in International Taxation Law, RKC, Switzerland