Asia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Neal Cross - PictureWealth, orangutans and sense of it all

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nealx/">Neal Cross</a> is co-founder and Chairman of <a href="https://picturewealth.com/">PictureWealth</a>, an award-winning innovator and speaker based in Perth, Australia, who is active in FinTech and innovation across the Asia Pacific.</p><p>Angela and Neal talk about:</p><ul> <li>Why, of all the issues in the current financial services sector, he chose to focus on personal wealth management </li> <li>Neal's background in innovation and if an enterprise is ready for a fundamental shift (ex DBS, MasterCard, Microsoft)</li> <li>The biggest mistakes corporations and start-ups make when trying to work together and how to fix this</li> <li>How do start-ups pick the best partners and avoid those who are part of the "milking" the start-ups</li> <li>His commitment to sustainable tourism through <a href="https://hotelorangutan.com/">hotelorangutan.com</a> and <a href="https://www.pulauwehparadise.com/">pulauwehparadise.com</a> in Indonesia and how we can support their mission.  Hotel Orangutan is a non-profit start-up that seeks to empower villagers economically and to raise awareness of the precarious situation of orangutans, which are being driven out of their natural habitat by wildfires. Pulau Weh Paradise: besides its mission to raise awareness of the plight of the coral reefs, the hotel has also been a source of jobs and education for the local villages </li> </ul>