Peter Nikolaou

From 11 years of age I was an avid businessman, selling avocados from my backyard tree to the local fruit shop. I would get as many squashed into my backpack and make the three block journey to Bay Street.

And although business is awesome, sometimes you learn hard lessons. Just like when the shop owner turned to me and told me he was going to pay me less per avocado. I had no other buyers, so I quickly learnt about purchasing power.

Moving on from the avocado business I traded basketball cards in high school (for a profit of course!), and after uni, I then went into the ‘real’ world.

From a graduate program in business and corporate banking to finance broking within an accountancy firm and even some investing I learnt ALL the commercial lending ropes with a deep understanding of the business ins and outs.