About

My name is Simon Drake.

I’ll take you on a trip through financial presentations.

I studied Graphic Design in 1993, worked as a Graphic Designer in Brisbane and Sydney, got bored, moved into Desktop Publishing, working at:

• FINSIA: Compiling content and printing Financial Education documents, e.g. for stock brokers, fund managers, advisers.
• Australian Graduate School of Management:  Print Production co-ordinator for the University of New South Wales’s Australian Graduate School of Management MBA Program.

I later move to London and worked:

• Goldman Sachs Presentations Assistant – 3 years
• Houlihan Lokey  Presentations  – 2 years

In between I also worked for:

• Smaller boutique funds and financiers around Pall Mall and Mayfair
• Various management consultancies
• Well connected international public relations firms.

I then moved to Frankfurt am Main, working at:

• Jefferies  – 3 years

Currently I am a freelancer, specialising in pitches and presentations for finance.

I am also the co-founder of Space Ventures Investors, a niche space start-up creating space investing products.