Lloyd H Bunting III:  Founder, Investor

🤔 Lloyd Bunting is the founder of TechInvestment.com which invests in listed technology companies.

Lloyd was keen to learn to fly, and did so in the RAAF as soon as he was eligible, after renouncing his US citizenship and becoming an Australian citizen at age 18. Lloyd did about 30 hours of flying, about half of which was solo, but did not demonstrate sufficient interest in officer training.


RAAF 1BFTS


⚔️ Lloyd completed the remainder of his 2 years of National Service with the Australian Army's air dispatch function, which involved air drops and aerial delivery by Caribou, C-130 and Iriquois aircraft. The work included parachuting from (jumping out of) C-130 Hercules and DHC-4 Caribou aircraft.

⚔️ 1 Army Air Supply Organisation (1AASO) (176 Air Dispatch Squadron now part of the 9th Force Support Battalion (9FSB)). [Air dispatch in action]. 176 ADPL also provides civilian support - - even to Antarctica!.

Civvy Career

🤔 Lloyd's civilian career has been focused on defence, public and private sector strategy, including project evaluation, project scheduling, planning and management, quantitative modelling, decision-support tools and investment in leading edge technologies.

⚔️ Lloyd was selected to attend the first Defence Systems Management Course for Lt Colonel/Colonel level officers and equivalent civilians involved in Foreign Affairs and Defence strategy.

DSMC1/82
🔺 DSMC 1/82: The first Defence Systems Management Course

Academic and Professional Qualifications

🎓 Lloyd holds degrees (BBus, MBA) and diplomas in business, directorship, technology and investment, finance and accounting. His retired professional memberships include Foundation Fellow of AICD (FAICD), Fellow Certified Practising Accountant (FCPA), and Member of the Australian Computer Society.

Financial Modelling and Risk Assessment

🤔 During his work with Australian Government programs, Lloyd contributed to the evaluation and administration of major funding initiatives, including programs with combined allocations approaching AUD 1 billion. His responsibilities included financial modelling, risk assessment, and risk analysis of complex projects.

Commercial Accounting

🤔 Lloyd has worked in operational environments including:


Garden
🔺 Garden Island Dockyard, Sydney.

Project Modelling and Risk Assessment

🤔 During his work with Australian Government programs, Lloyd contributed to the evaluation and administration of major funding initiatives, including programs with combined allocations approaching AUD 1 billion. His responsibilities included financial modelling, risk assessment, and risk analysis of complex projects.


RASPP
🔺 Radar Sensor Procurement Project management team. The model is of a PSR+SSR radar station


JORN:
🔺 Jindalee Over The Horizon Radar Network

For Telstra's bid for the Jindalee Over The Horizon Project, Lloyd produced a risk evaluation, using the Lockheed Missiles and Space methodology, earning top score in this area of the tender evaluation.

🎲 Lloyd developed and applied Monte Carlo simulation modelling techniques to improve forecasting and decision-making for major defence technology-related projects characterised by uncertainty and long time horizons. The demonstration project was the construction of a fleet of mine hunters for the Australian Navy. Proof of concept was developed on UTS ICL 1904, and Prime Computer provided unlimited access to their Canberra computer laboratory, and Execucom provided use of their IFPS financial modelling product, which included advanced simulation capability. The technology was presented to the RADM in charge of Naval projects, and also to a large public seminar in Sydney.

Lloyd's last civilian public service work was in:

By this time, Lloyd considered he'd spent enough time in the public service and joined a major bank as a Chief Manager with responsibility for advice on about 500 capital expenditure projects (including property leases). After several years in banking Lloyd went back to contract work.

⚔️ For the Australian Department of Defence Lloyd built a capacity planning model for supply (logistics) systems infrastructure (SDSS): it estimated the whole of Defence capacity requirement for networks, depots and management systems, and the cost of that infrastructure. This was run on an IBM PC, and took about an hour for each assumption iteration.

Software as a Service

😊 Lloyd designed and provided software solutions integrating financial modelling and analytical tools, including an early SaaS-style implementation for government. Lloyd visited a Federal grant management project that was overwhelmed with applications. Lloyd asked "do you have a spare desk and computer?" and there and then eGrants was founded.

Egrants automated most functions in grant management, including:

eGrants.com achieved a 99.5% user compliance rate and a 95% satisfied or very satisfied rating by users, and the grant program (our client) received a Minister's Achievement Award.



🔺 Minister's Achievement Award Presentations

On completion of that project Lloyd built a Software as a Service (SaaS) system for distribution of $1 billion of government funding for drought recovery and local government infrastructure projects during the Global Financial Crisis. This was the Federal Government's first SaaS contract (worth $1 million).

🤔 Areas of Experience

🤔 Current Interests

🤔 Lloyd's current interest is TechInvestment.com which is focused on investable advanced technologies such as:

😇 DISCLAIMERS, ETC

✋ Lloyd Bunting does not offer investment advice or investment services to the public.

✋ TechInvestment.com does not offer investment advice or investment services to the public.