Lloyd H Bunting III: Founder, Investor
👋 Lloyd Bunting is the founder of TechInvestment.com which invests in ASX, NYSE and NASDAQ listed technology companies.
🎓 Academic and Professional Qualifications
Lloyd holds degrees (BBus, MBA) and diplomas in:
- directorship (UNE: Company Directors Diploma)
- technology (Control Data Institute: Diploma in Computer Programming Technology)
- finance and accounting (UTS: Bachelor of Business)
- finance and investment (UTS: MBA by coursework and thesis: portfolio construction).
Lloyd has retired his professional memberships which included:
- Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD)
- Fellow Certified Practising Accountant (FCPA), and
- Member of the Australian Computer Society.
⚙️ Employment
⚔️ Lloyd has served in the RAAF, Army, Defence, Garden Island Naval Dockyard and the Defence Inspector-General's office.
While working in Defence Lloyd attended the first 4-week residential Defence Systems Management Course (DSMC 1/82) run by Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) for Lt Colonel/Colonel level officers and equivalent civilians involved in Foreign Affairs and Defence strategy.
Lloyd was a Principal Consultant in the Public Service Board and was seconded to the Federal Parliament's Presiding Officers' Coordination and Planning Advisory Group to develop a strategic plan and review of services and resources in the Department of the Parliamentary Library (Parliamentary Research Service). [The Presiding Officers are: the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives].
Lloyd then worked for 5 years at executive level in a major Australian bank with a focus on capital expenditure.
Founder: ⚙️ eGrants
Lloyd founded and built eGrants.com, a software as a service (SAAS) business that handled about $1 billion in Federal government grants and earned for its first client a Minister's Achievement Award
Founder: 📈 TechInvestment.com
Lloyd's current focus as the founder and investment manager of TechInvestment.com's AUD 30 million portfolio is on research and investment in NASDAQ, NYSE and some ASX listed technology companies in areas of:
- consumer devices
- retail
- artificial intelligence
- graphics processing units
- tensor processing units and language processing units
- quantum computing
- data centers, and
- infrastructure (eg energy).
⏯️ TechInvestment is an investor in D:Wave and Rigetti