GPR Asia currently has one office open in Beijing with the intention of other offices opening in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam and Japan over the next decade. GPR Asia works with Asian companies who wish to invest/joint venture/merge or acquire companies in Australia and/or with Australian companies that wish to invest/joint venture/ merge or acquire companies within the Asian region.
About the Company:
GPR Asia was established by Greg Rudd. Greg is the principal owner and Managing Director and brings in equity investors as required to fund growth. The business model is to have small offices staffed by core teams of highly skilled project managers and support staff while engaging expert consultants on a project by project basis.
About Greg Rudd:
Greg spent the early part of his career involved with the arts and education. He has been an actor/writer/director/administrator with amateur and professional theatre and ballet companies. He has taught primary, secondary and tertiary students, written education curriculum, worked as an education consultant, written plays and a novel and traveled extensively within Australia.
In 1990 Greg evolved his career to work as an Adviser and Senior Adviser in the Hawke/Keating Governments in various portfolios until 1996. One of his more enjoyable achievements was being a key architect of the $A30 million Australia Remembers program, the 12 month commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War Two.
In late 1996 Greg evolved from politics into business by starting Open Door Consulting, a boutique political lobbying consultancy that operated on the East Coast of Australia, interfacing between business and all three tiers of government. During this 10 year period Greg worked in most industry sectors on local, state, national and international issues and projects. In late 2007 Greg sold Open Door Consulting to senior staff to avoid a perceived conflict of interest as his brother rose through the ranks of Australian politics.
Greg now lives in Beijing and other parts of the Asian region with his son Lachlan. He is director of Intouch, the commercial arm of the Spinal Injury Association of Queensland and a Director on the Board of Governors of INRULED, a UNESCO organisation based in Beijing that researches and develops education and training packages to help lift the rural poor from poverty."
Greg has a daughter Emily who is doing degrees in Journalism and Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane and works as a part time remote PA in her dad’s business. Greg’s son Lachlan has a business degree from QUT and spent 2008 studying Mandarin at Qing Dao University and Shandong University in China and now works full time for GPR Asia in Beijing while continuing his language and other studies.