Simutech Solutions

Simutech Solutions is your go-to provider of support services for your high fidelity flight training systems. We offer a range of support including advanced technical support, technical training, regulatory support, recruitment, installations & relocations, device appraisal & pre-purchase inspections, and major upgrade support.

We are OEM agnostic, and support all device levels from Full Flight Simulators, to Flight Training Devices to Part Task Trainers and beyond.

Chief Executive Officer

AIC Connect

There is a great depth of talent, innovation and industrial capability in Australia. 

AIC Connect’s mission is to bring as many Australian SMEs into the Defence Industrial Base to support a more resilient and capable defence force.

Our nation requires an unprecedented build up of our industrial base to support our Defence capabilities, and we are helping the backbone of the Australian economy - small and medium businesses - build up their capability and capacity to support this high growth industry.

CEO & Managing Director

Share EV

As Corporate Sales Executive, I am responsible for overall strategic planning and execution of Share EV's corporate sales initiatives.

By positioning Share EV as the country's premiere 'turn key' EV fleet solution provider, I am accountable to the Managing Director to grow the company's market share within corporate fleets across Australia.

Corporate Sales Executive

DdV Coaching

DdV Coaching is my career coaching specialty business.

I coach and mentor the younger generation to navigate their career and earn more money.
Supporting clients from all over the world; I'm all about giving the next generation a leg-up in their careers!

Career Coach

Griffith University Postgraduate Students Association (GUPSA)

I was elected to the Board of the Griffith University Post Graduate Students Association (GUPSA) in late 2021 as Coursework Officer to represent my fellow post graduate students undertaking their study via coursework.

In late 2022 I was re-elected for a second term as Coursework Officer, and will continue to work hard to advocate for the needs of my peers completing their postgraduate studies via coursework.

The Coursework Officer role holds joint responsibility as co-chair of the board alongside the Research Officer and Online Officer roles. These three roles represent the entire postgraduate body of students within Griffith University.

Completing my MBA studies in October of 2023, I am no longer eligible to seek re-election to the Board, so as of November 2023 I am handing over the Coursework Officer role to the new candidate to take forward the initiatives and support Griffith postgraduate students on their educational journey.

Board Co-Chair & Coursework Officer

HeliMods

HeliMods is a unique capability within the Australian and global aviation, defence & aerospace market. HeliMods delights its customers with a well established, best of breed, industry 4.0 technology base that is used to design, manufacture and deliver highly innovative solutions in the aerospace domain.

As Head of Emerging Programs & AIC, I was responsible to leverage the existing and emerging HeliMods capabilities within the emerging customer domain of defence. I focused on establishing and nurturing relationships with defence and defence primes then clearly articulating the value proposition that HeliMods can bring to larger defence acquisition and sustainment programs. 

HeliMods punches significantly above its weight due to the substantial investments in people and technology that have been made over 20+ years.

Head of Emerging Programs & AIC

I led the APAC regional team to ensure our Defence and Security customers always receive the highest quality post sales service and product support to enable the highest level of training to be delivered.
I provided functional management of the APAC Maintenance organisation, including compliance and governance leadership.

I led the program to support training on the AW139 Full Flight Simulator at the ACE training centre in Bankstown, NSW in support of the New South Wales Ambulance Service.
I led the Australian contingent of the team supporting the MH-60R suite of training devices on site at HMAS Albatross in support of the Royal Australian Navy.

Manager, Customer Services, APAC

I led the customer service team in the delivery of post-sales product support and was responsible for maintenance regulatory compliance and governance across Australia and New Zealand within the Defence & Security business unit.

I led an initiative to completion in an overhaul of the Maintenance Management System (a subset of the Quality Management System) including policy, process, procedure, and standardisations thereof. The overhaul also included skills and training management of the maintainer cohort to ensure repeatable, high-quality outcomes.

Customer Service Manager & Senior Maintenance Manager

KC-30A Training Centre - Multi-Role Tanker Transport Simulators
Full Mission Simulator
Part Task Trainer (Air-to-air Refueling Station)
Integrated Procedures Trainer

Preventative Maintenance
Corrective Maintenance
Stores Management
Shift Supervision
Continuous Improvement Projects

Simulator Technician

Raytheon Australia

F/A-18E/F Australian Super Hornet Tactical Operational Flight Trainer (x2)
F/A-18E/F Australian Super Hornet Low Cost Trainer (x4)
F/A-18E/F Australian Super Hornet Integrated Virtual Environment Maintenance Trainer (x2)
F/A-18E/F Australian Super Hornet Computer Based Training System (x5 Classrooms)

Preventative Maintenance
Corrective Maintenance
Stores Management

Thales Australia

C-17A Globemaster Full Flight Mission Simulator
C-17A Globemaster Loadmaster Trainer

Preventative Maintenance
Corrective Maintenance
Stores Management

F111-C Mission Simulator

Preventative Maintenance
Corrective Maintenance
Stores Management

Boeing Training & Flight Services (Previously Alteon)

Boeing 717 Full Flight Simulator
2x Boeing 737 Full Flight Simulators
Airbus A320 Full Flight Simulator
Alteon/Boeing/Virgin Training Centre, Brisbane Airport

Work conducted for Boeing as an employee of Thales Australia under a subcontract

Helping young professionals earn bigger salaries and the promotions they deserve 💪 | $100k salary at 27 | CEO of AIC Connect | 1st exec role at 36 | Career coach 💼

Young people struggle being promoted.

And it has nothing to do with them being lazy or arrogant!

(Regardless of what people say about Gen-Z🙄)

The problem is that they’re only taught the skill to do their job. No one shows them:

→ How to plan a career they’ll love
→ What’s needed to get a promotion (because it isn’t being good at your job!)
→ How to create a work/life balance

I was never shown either!

I had to work it out for myself and thankfully I did a good job of it. I got my 1st 6 figure salary at 27 and my 1st executive role at 36.

A lot of the people I’ve worked with are:

💪 Hardworking
🌟 Ambitious
👍 Generally good people

But they’re being wasted doing the same entry role that they started in.

If you want to earn more money and learn how to navigate your career, please message me and let’s chat!

Daniel de Vries

Batley Entrepreneurship Club

Building Batley BETTER.

Batley Entrepreneurship Club is a grassroots movement aimed at driving economic, creative and cultural revival in a town long written off.

Supporting Batley’s builders and backers:

• Connect with one another
• Create bold projects and ventures
• Commercialise ideas that solve real problems

For those launching their first business, building their brand, or backing the next generation.

BEC is where people belong, collaborate and grow. 

From community to capital.
From storytelling to startups.
From forgotten to forward-focused.

Builders. Backers. Belonging.

Laying the blueprint for other small towns and cities do the same and collectively revitalise the UK from bottom up in preparation for the disruptive AI age.

Get in touch and join the journey.

Community Builder

Minotaur Mastery

Relaunched Minotaur Mastery as a modern personal development brand rooted in myth, philosophy and real-world fear mastery.

The mission is to help you go to war with yourself and a degenerate society fighting to keep you weak.

The aim is to help you think critically, evolve internally, contribute meaningfully and ascend spiritually.

🎙 Launched Minotaur Video Exemplar (MVE): a 6-week programme to help professionals, creators and leaders overcome the fear of speaking of camera, build a personal brand rooted in truth and become a visible role model in their industry or community.

MVE is phase one of a broader mission to turn silent individuals into bold leaders and build a collective of thinkers, builders and truth-tellers who collaborate to create enterprises and alternatives that counter mainstream rot.

Personal transformation fused with mythological storytelling for life mastery and spiritual ascension.

Please visit: https://minotaurmastery.com/

Founder

Jurisperitus

Deal making, Strategic Advisory and Consulting along with Training & Development.

Qadr Financial

Managed shariah compliant investments, especially in 🇸🇦real estate.

Responsible for direct relationships with global investors, project managing from queries to contracts to payments to onboarding; and ongoing support.

Navigating Today's Markets, Creating Tomorrow's Wealth, at Qadr Financial we are a private investment boutique dedicated to achieving long-term value for the investors we serve and stakeholders we engage.

Transform & grow your wealth with Qadr Private our dedicated service for Muslim investors, our clients grow their wealth through asset backed private partnership investments. Fully managed, Sharia compliant at their core and global in nature.

Senior Investor Relationship Manager at Qadr Financial - 🇸🇦🇦🇪🇬🇧

Worked on many projects across the spectrum, including but not limited to supporting:

	•	Startups raise investment
	•	International companies enter Saudi
	•	Structure and launch VC funds
	•	Deliver Shariah-compliant real estate projects
	•	M&A and cross-border investment


Navigating Today's Markets, Creating Tomorrow's Wealth, at Qadr Financial we are a private investment boutique dedicated to achieving long-term value for the investors we serve and stakeholders we engage.

Transform & grow your wealth with Qadr Private our dedicated service for Muslim investors, our clients grow their wealth through asset backed private partnership investments. Fully managed, Sharia compliant at their core and global in nature.

Associate at Qadr Financial - Creating a New Dimension of Wealth Creation & Growth | KSA | UAE | UK

Ethical Empires

Helping you scale your business by:

- Streamlining internal operations
- Acquiring other profitable businesses

So you can then build an empire which is capable of making a real impact in the world; and preparing it for the massive payday exit when you sell.

Co-Founder

Conquer The Internal Minotaur In The Maze Of Your Mind.
Conquer The External Minotaur In The Maze Of Your Life.

Self-Improvement and personal development coaching.

Based on the story of Theseus & The Minotaur. Each element is symbolic:

• Minotaur – Your anxieties, fears, obstacles, doubts, insecurities, hardships and challenges

• Theseus – You / The potential hero within you

• Maze/Labyrinth – The complexity of your mind and your life

• Ariadne – The people who will help you

• Sacrificial Boys & Girls – The cause/mission you want to tackle (or what you become if you continue to run and hide from your fears)

• Sword & String – The skills & strategy you will use to better yourself

• Theseus’ Father – Your responsibilities before, during & after victory – and the people telling you to hold back

The story is pretty much a metaphor for your life, mindset and the path you take (or don't take).

One of my biggest Minotaur's was the fear of speaking. I had crippling social anxiety which restricted me in so many ways, especially in pursuing opportunities.

Overcoming this fear was one of the greatest things I accomplished.

By starting a YouTube channel, and a podcast entitled The Minotaur's Maze, I was able to build self-esteem, confidence & communication. This in turn allowed me to build solid relationships and open up opportunities that otherwise would never have come my way.

I now help other people conquer the same Minotaur, so that they too can live a more fulfilling and satisfying life.

Check out the YouTube channel which has more content on similar themes, as well as the podcast which has guests discussing various themes on improvement, business, lifestyle, religion & spirituality.

Please also check out the attached resources to help you with your personal and professional goals.

Please visit: https://minotaurmastery.com/

Leopold Wise Solicitors

Founder & Director of SRA Regulated law firm.

COLP / COFA

Founder / Director

Skilled but restricted by self-doubt & overthinking?

🔱 Minotaur Mastery is a personal development brand rooted in myth, philosophy & real-world fear mastery. Designed to help you go to war with yourself & a degenerate society fighting to keep you weak.

🎙️ Minotaur Video Exemplar helps you:

	•	Find your voice
	•	Build your brand & presence
	•	Lead your mission with purpose

Most fear speaking. I did too until I quashed it by making videos.

Go from silent and stuck to bold, visible, confident, impactful & dangerous with a camera, message & mission:

🎥 Make powerful videos with confidence (even if you hate being on camera)
🚀 Build a personal brand rooted in truth, not hype
🏛 Become a role model in your field, family or community
🧭 Lead movements, not just chase followers


🏛 Batley Entrepreneurship Club is a local play. A grassroots project reviving a “forgotten” town through events, startups, storytelling & community vision.

Reimagining what it means to build from street to startup, real estate to reinvention, turning a Northern town into a blueprint for bottom-up regeneration powered by community, creativity and entrepreneurship.

🧱 My Background

I qualified as a UK lawyer in 2015. But I had issues:

	•	Fear of speaking
	•	Fear of failure
	•	Fear of being seen

I worked my way up the corporate ladder from paralegal to senior management to becoming a consultant to launching my own law firm in 2018.

But I hated the legal career and lifestyle. So I left.

Since then, I’ve explored and tested dozens of business models, creative ventures and various projects of all shapes and sizes across the spectrum.

This led me to work with Saudi firm Qadr Financial, which included various work streams:

	•	Startups raise investment
	•	International companies enter Saudi
	•	Structure and launch VC funds
	•	Deliver Shariah-compliant real estate projects
	•	M&A and cross-border investment

But my deepest work comes from using my own transformation of conquering fear of speaking, self-doubt, shyness and social anxiety to escape a career I hated, find clarity & leadership to help others do the same. 

My philosophy centres on simple principles:

Master yourself
Build your brand
Become a role model
Transform your world

🔨 Build people
🏗 Build towns

Preserving human connection in a disruptive AI age.

Whether you’re a founder, builder, creator, aspiring leader or professional the goal is the same:

Think critically
Evolve internally
Contribute externally
Ascend spiritually

📩 Message me to work together

Zulfaqar Faraz

To say I’m excited to announce the next event is an understatement, so here we go…

Batley Entrepreneurship Club Presents: Building Global Ventures.

An evening with two entrepreneurial tanks:

💥 Azam Jaafri and
💥 Yousif Aslam  

Azam successfully built and exited his business, going from Yorkshire to Bahrain.

He is now a venture builder and investor in multiple brands, including Foodery, amongst others.

Yousif is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Heavenly Desserts.

This is a brand that started from local roots but has now scaled to 60+ locations, and has gone international.

I mentioned it last time, to get one of these to come to Batley is a coup, to get them both on the same night is something else!

This event is going to be electric:

📆 Friday 30 January 2026
⏰ 18:00
📍 Batley Town Hall

Secure your place for this memorable evening and register now:

https://lnkd.in/ewTUBaug

Shout out to the supporters and sponsors for this event:

- West Yorkshire Combined Authority 
- Chaiiwala Batley

This is Batlehh, where things happen…and it’s happening on January 30! 😁

#WhereOpportunityLives

Ex-Lawyer | Building People. Building Towns 🇬🇧 | 🏛 Batley Entrepreneurship Club | 🔱 Minotaur Mastery | Make Videos ▶️ Build Brand ▶️ Become A Role Model ▶️ Transform Your Community

Not my usual type of event, but i'm glad I accepted the invitation from the Mayor of West Yorkshire to attend the Business Leaders' Reception in Leeds last Thursday.

I'm so used to my Batley Bubble now, goin' out of town, even if down the road to Leeds, is out of my comfort zone 😂

On serious note, the room was full of industry leaders from Jet2 to Haribo UK amongst a heap of others.

Have to give a shout out to Shahban Aziz who kept me entertained throughout the evening.

I may be in the minority, but I continue to see & experience so many positive things in the UK, espesh up North.

As a result i'm continuously meeting amazing people doing some amazing things that, unlike most, i'm very optimistic about the UK despite the current climate.

The amount of opportunities is just unreal.

The real problem is deciding which path to pick and pursue from all of the avenues opening up since starting Batley Entrepreneurship Club.

BEC is publicly funded and backed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority; which is also backing a lot more projects & initiatives to inject much needed support in the regional business landscape.

Plenty of highlights were provided about what to be proud of in West Yorkshire - with special mention to bed manufacturing...

...that would be the Batley/Dewsbury/Heckmondwike ends - considered the UK's capital for bed manufacturing.

Most of y'all probably sleeping on beds from Batley but didn't even know it - meaning there's a piece of Batley in your homes 😂

Just one more reason, if you didn't have many already, to get yourself down to the next Batley Entrepreneurship Club Event: Building Global Ventures.

 📆 Friday 30 January 2026
 ⏰ 18:00
 🏫 Batley Town Hall

The limited early bird tickets have been booked, get yours before they're gone:

https://lnkd.in/ewTUBaug

Highlights of the London trip this weekend.

I wanted to do a road trip travel-vlog style documentary - but the lads were having nothing of it 😂

Managed to sneak in these tid bits here and there.

It was packed with so much more, naturally all the best parts were off camera.

Just an overnight stay, but felt much longer considering all we got through.

London might as well be another country compared to the Norff. But it’s got a vibe of its own.

They tell us it’s dangerous. We were walking around at 1am no issues. Even saw a hijabi lady walking out by herself that late!

Not to say there aren’t issues, but like I have been saying for a while - the UK is a great place and not as bad as being made out.

When you connect with the right people, you feel the difference.

Spending time with these gents was great, but so was meeting all the new people as well - so many positives and so many opportunities in the UK.

Make an effort to genuinely be positive, you’ll be surprised how positive things begin to surround you.

Credit to:

Nasar Hussain for the invitation, which doesn’t even happen without the amazing work that was done behind the scenes for the last decade culminating in the charitable project in Balochistan.

Saadat K. for providing exemplary company, and who has a phenomenal project of his own.

Wajid Arif and his company Luxe Executive Travel for an unforgettable experience of cruising around London city in a Rolls Royce Ghost.

Two young guns and future stars Aydin Hussain & Zain Yaqub who soldiered through with youthful energy.

And of course Islamic Relief UK for putting together an amazing event.

To end with some words of wisdom from Dr Hany El-Banna, especially if you’re feeling despondent and dead:

“A man who loves life will live forever.
A woman who loves life will live forever.
Never lose hope and never stop loving.”

(can’t do justice because Dr Hany’s delivery was impeccable - but you get the gist)

Batley Entrepreneurship Club Workshop - Starting Your Project: From Idea to Action

Build Your First Project, Side Hustle, or Idea

A practical workshop for anyone who’s just started, or wants to start, a project, side-hustle  or business but doesn’t know where to begin or what to do next.

By the end of the workshop, you will:

🌟Clarify your skills, strengths, and experience

🌟Understand what business actually means for a beginner

🌟Identify who you want to help and why

🌟Turn your skills & experience into a simple business idea

🌟Learn how to find the right market

🌟Learn how to validate your idea with zero money

🌟Learn how to take your first steps toward launch

🌟Build your first Minimum Viable Offer (MVO)

🌟Get a clear 14-day action plan

🌟Learn how to avoid the biggest beginner mistakes

This workshop is straightforward, practical and beginner-friendly.

📍 Location: Online (Followed by a meet-up at a local coffee shop)

📅 Date: Friday 5 December
⏰ Time: 18:00

🎟 Tickets: Free for BEC Members.

To become a member, register here:

https://lnkd.in/eXm45ASp

Once registered, you’ll receive a Welcome email with a link to join the Private WhatsApp Group where you’ll get details about the workshop.

Huge shout out and thanks to the supporters and sponsors:

- West Yorkshire Combined Authority  
- Moduliv Limited  

#WhereOpportunityLives

Business idea: Book a chauffeur driven vehicle for long drives BUT, fill the vehicle with people discussing bizzness.

Kinda like networking on the road.

Few weeks ago I made videos about the horrible traffic in and out of Manchester - I find driving such a waste of time.

Yeah you can do calls whilst driving, but it’s not the same as being in a luxury vehicle physically with others whom you then connect with on a deeper level, discuss various things, and still have the time to do other bits on your phone/laptop.

One of you needs to run with this idea: “we don’t just get you chauffeur driven, we get you chauffeur driven with strategic passengers.”

Anyhow, that’s not what this trip was about. This was about Nasar Hussain and Wajid Arif’s great work with Islamic Relief.

I was lucky enough to be invited along to something that turned into a great experience all around on multiple fronts.

Couldn’t therefore not do a video for Luxe Executive Travel, Waj’s very own Chauffeur Driven business.

Maybe he’ll run with the networking on the road idea. 😁

I’m going to be sharing the stage with two absolute tanks in January iA…

…my current average of gym 3x a week might not be enough to stop me looking like a dweeb in comparison 😂

Jokes aside, it’s been a struggle trying to maintain a gym routine whilst parenting 3 kids and building an unusual project which has so many moving parts to it.

Only now about 3 months later am I starting to feel good.

They say starting is the hardest part, which just isn’t true.

Starting is easy.

Carrying on when you’re not seeing or feeling the results is the hard part.

This especially applies to building a project, business or side hustle.

So many get excited at the start, jump in, then stall when realising how hard and slow it is - espesh when you can’t tangibly see the progress being made

That’s just the price of admission - so keep going.

For now, keep an eye out for the official announcements about the 30 January Batley Entrepreneurship Club event…

…and get to the gym.

If you really want to do something, you’ll get it done.

Bad back pain would’ve kept me out of the gym today. But I really wanted to get in the 4th session.

That was the energy that got me through 100 days in the gym a few years ago.

It’s the same energy you need when building your project, side hustle or business.

There will always be obstacles. But those are really tests: do you really want it?!

Too many build something “hoping” it might work or just seeing how it goes.

Issue with that is, when the first obstacle comes, it leads to giving up. 

Instead, you need to commit and be relentless in the pursuit of your objective.

Whether that’s business, fitness, personal or anything else.

Tickets booked for me and my boys for our first ever live boxing match.

We excited to watch local hero Callum Simpson defend his titles.

Won’t be long before he’s knocking out a world title fight.

Tickets are still available I believe so get in touch with him, or me, or book from the Boxxer website. 

Leeds will be rockin’ on December 20th.

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