Investment Banker and Ex-Management Consultant. To learn more about me, you can download my profile [Jose Paul Martin]. Currently, I work with Venture Capital Bank - a boutique Islamic Investment Bank in the Kingdom of Bahrain and focus on private equity investments as an upcoming deal maker, putting to use my talents in consulting, start-ups and investment analysis. If you wish to network with me for new deals both venture capital and private equity type, please get in touch either through the contact form below or visit my LinkedIn profile to connect. Prior to joining VC Bank, I’ve worked with the following portfolio:

Online Profiles:

• LinkedIn - expand your network
• Facebook - social connecting utility
• Plaxo - staying in touch
• Twitter - microblogging
• Del.icio.us - social bookmarking
• Flickr - social photography
• Orkut - friends, family and foe

Web Services Used:

I once had an idea managing my digital life on my own site, but that wasn’t so practical. As in the offline world, online crashes do happen - but with those who are in the business of providing a service online, also have the responsibility of keeping backups. So let them do what they do best.

Today, I use paid services such as Enom, A Small Orange, Flickr Pro, YahooMail Plus, SugarSync to manage my virtual world. However, somethings are still free and great - Google (Search, Gmail, Calender, Reader, Docs), Delicious, Firefox (all add on/extension providers) and of course WordPress.

Sites Managed:

• AVCION - a so called holding company for my ventures
• Christica - a Christian site with parables and reflections
• MariasMenu - a food blog which I cannot ignore (my wife’s!)
• Dr Paulose - a world class ENT Surgeon’s blog (my dad!)
• AJOBZ - a job (talent) board managed with my brother-in-law.

Contact

If you’ve got questions, concerns, comments, suggestions, want to network, want to get finance or have a great deal, need advice or even an interesting link - please touch base with me: (You will have my regular/personal email id once I reply)