"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it." - Patrick L Young My first published writing appeared in motoring publications when I was still at school. I organised the first series for historic racing cars' during the 1980's in my native Ireland and soon found myself writing for the likes of "Autosport" and many similar periodicals.It took a while before I got around to a first book, with many delays in between, not the least of them being my career in finance which has been an involvement dating back almost 30 years now!I have been active in online business on the world wide web since 1994 and maintain a passion for finance and the future - both intertwined and separately! While writing books in the specialist financial field, I hope to branch out into the broader world of other topics (I already write columns for RT.com on all manner of macro economics and political topics which take my fancy to spotlight).By day I run a crowdfunding platform "Hanza Trade" and publish the acclaimed global daily for financial market infrastructure "Exchange Invest" which is read by the C-suite of markets in over 120 countries world-wide.I was once the CEO of the Transylvanian stock exchange amongst a myriad of other positions while in the world of startups, my wife and I are amongst the three Co Founders of a leading Polish grassroots startup movement, "Mission ToRun."You can often find me addressing, or chairing panels at various conferences around the world (mostly related to finance & markets) while I appear often on tv /radio and have written Opinion pieces for many leading newspapers including the AFR, Boersen Zeitung, FT and Wall Street Journal.