Tony Power

Burmese Python Project

Tony grew up back in Brisbane Australia, graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Queensland, and then qualified as an Associate Chartered Accountant. His corporate life quickly led him to be relocated to Bahrain with DHL for 2 years, living some of that time in Riyadh Saudi Arabia as well. He was relocated after 2 years for a 4-month stint at the Global Headquarters of DHL in London and then moved once again to Rio De Janeiro as Controller for Latin America for DHL. The then Regional Office was relocated to Fort Lauderdale.

After 10 years with DHL Tony moved over to Burger King initially as Latin America Finance Director and completed an MBA at University of Miami, after which he was relocated back to Sydney as Director of Business Development for the South Pacific area. After another 10 years with Burger King, Tony relocated to Florida again and joined York International Corporation initially for 2 years as Finance Director for Latin America/Caribbean before being relocated to London as VP Finance for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). After the merger of York with Johnson Controls and a stint working as VP of the Global SAP Deployment team based in Amsterdam, Tony was relocated to Dubai as VP of Operations & Administration for the Middle East Region for 6 years.

After another short 2-year stint in Brazil again, Tony retired from Corporate Life moving back to Florida. While researching business opportunities and alternatives, Tony became interested in the financial services industry. He secured his Life and Health license in 2018 and evolved his focus on Retirement Planning. This was an important moment of reflection for Tony, contemplating what he did and did not learn from Corporate Life, plus the 2008/9 impact on his 401k.

During all this movement Tony managed to get married and have two amazing kids (twins) who have successfully completed College and now live full time here in the US and who have two beautiful grandchildren. Tony is also a Rotarian since 2016 and has served as Club President two times and Area Governor for his District, as well as being engaged directly in Disaster Recovery efforts (e.g. post Hurricane Ian) and leadership of environmental projects such as the Burmese Python Issue in SWFL.

For more details, visit Tony’s LinkedIn page at www.linkedin.com/in/tonyppower.