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Profile: Mark Greenword

22/12/2016

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Back in Thailand after a four-year hiatus to oversee his daughter's education in the UK,
​Mark Greenwood talks about making money, losing money, and his next business challenge
Mark Greenwood and his daughters
Name: Mark Mitchell Greenwood.

Nicknames:  Junior School – Granny, Big School – Flower, Thailand – Mad Dog, not quite sure what this progression tells me.

Age: 60. Born: Cheshire, England. Education: Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Manchester University.

How long in Thailand/Asia: 38 Years. Special talents: Ability to communicate and make people FEEL COMFORTABLE from whatever background. Anything else: Don’t suffer fools gladly.

Greatest regret: Not getting to work and live in Bangkok before 1987.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be:  To have been born dirt poor so that I could better understand the nature of human suffering.

Best Friends: My inestimably wonderful daughters, Carmel and Noelle, and my sister Amanda. Favourite restaurant: Ging Pakarang, Koh Samui.The most interesting person you ever met: Nelson Boone, ex accountant, Master of Life.

Favourite memory: Getting on a plane at Heathrow in 1978 bound for Dubai to begin expat life with HSBC.

Most lucrative period of your life: Early stockbroking years in Bangkok, 1987-96. Hopefully another one starting now that I am back full time and shaking up the Samui property market.

Other than the traffic, what would you like to see different in Bangkok: A revision of the import duties that make wine and imported foodstuffs ludicrously expensive.

Where else would you like to live:
Istanbul.

Best holiday: Denver, Colorado in 1976 with my aunt, uncle and cousins. Jaw dropping scenery in the Rockies!

Milestone: Checking into the Dusit Thani on September 1st 1987 to begin my life and career in Thailand.

High point: Getting out of a Jakarta jail after a year of ‘house arrest’ having been investigated for tax evasion and getting on a plane, free as a bird, to Bangkok.

Low point: Watching a hard earned portfolio of stocks drop by 90% in 1997/8.

Who would you like to play in a movie: Inspector Clouseau. Favourite media: The Economist – and The BigChilli of course!

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