Author Description

The book encapsulates how a shopkeeper's immigrant son leveraged ambition, intuition, customer input and a keen commercial imagination to create a leader in the specialist retail market. It examines the genius of John Geevargese in bringing to a small sleepy town, the very best of global salesmanship, introducing business practices before they became industry trends. And because all greatness cannot be contained merely by a mission statement, John went on to touch lives in an even more intimate way. By building institutions of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary education, he showed that wealth is actually for the advance of society. Today, these institutions, owned by a charitable trust, have helped empower thousands of students with the education that will propel them to become champions of change themselves. Reliving John's life through pictures, his own words and the experiences of his close aides, the coffee-table book brings to life a story filled with dreams, grit, ingenuity and clairvoyance. It is a story as much for the business student as it is for the aspiring of any age: it is a celebration of the very things that make us human.