When I was 14 years old I read Huckleberry Finn and was changed forever. The idea of rafting down a huge, vast river, thousands of miles long, mesmerized me. In Ireland, where I was born and raised, the country itself was only 300 miles long. I knew there and then I wanted to emigrate to the United States. After completing my undergraduate degree in Dublin, I set off on my adventures. I lived and travelled throughout Australia and Asia for three years. In 1998, I started my MBA at University of Melbourne and finished it at USC in Los Angeles. After graduation, I started work at Merrill Lynch in Beverly Hills where I met my current business partner Larry Fernandez. After 10 years, we