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Personal Presentation and Style

In our meeting, Mr Mammarella presented as a professional, neat, precise, considered individual. He appears to be intelligent, is certainly verbally fluent, and apparently quite commercially astute; he has pursued own business ventures with considerable success.

Mr Mammarella impressed as a quite independently-minded individual. The extent to which he would happily “fit in” and take direction, without expressing an independent or alternative view, probably needs to be considered.

Career Overview

Mr Mammarella explained that, after completing his secondary education, he commenced a commercial degree at University (VU) but did not complete it. Rather, he took up work in the family’s catering business. For

His Brakes Plus franchise agreement prevented him from operating at retail level in competition, but did not prevent him operating as a wholesaler. Thus, over approximately a two-year period, together with a partner, he operated the Ballarat Brake and Clutch business. Once again, from a commercial point-of-view, it was successful. But partnership difficulties meant that from a bottom-line view point, the business was not viable (the writer can explain) and so Mr Mammarella decided the best thing was to exit the business and leave it in the hands of his

(He could explain further in an interview). He thus left a ACM and joined Oricom a business which sold CB radio as well as home intercom radio (babycare) into re-sellers servicing these end-use markets. (Refer Career Details Section for some information on his work with Oricom.) He reported to the Managing Director in this business, but after two years decided he could not see any opportunity for career advancement and once again moved