About Radar Results
Radar Results is Australia’s largest M & A experts, specialising in the financial services sector. Radar Results works with financial planners, accountants and mortgage brokers to help them sell their practice. We also help buyers locate and acquire the practice that suits their expansion plans.
Our experience ensures we can match your requirements to our exclusive opportunities regardless of whether you are selling, buying or merging.
John Birt
John has proven capabilities as a high achieving, strategic executive demonstrated across a wide range of successful M&A negotiations. John has excellent conceptual & problem solving skills combined with a pragmatic approach to high level decision making in demanding multi-stakeholder environments and challenges the status quo in order to explore wider possibilities & realignment towards the strongest commercial outcome.
John is proud to lead a team of professionals who have experience, market knowledge and industry connections to ensure the greatest outcome for you, avoiding costly mistakes.
With a background in banking and accountancy, John Birt has been involved in the financial industry for over 30 years. Since completing Deakin University’s Diploma of Financial Planning in 1994, John has been associated with accountants and financial planners in many roles.
John has extensive experience coordinating and presenting seminars. He regularly writes for research groups and magazines and was the financial columnist for The Newcastle Star Newspaper during the late 1980s.
From 1990-1993 John was head of former Deloitte financial planning business based in Newcastle. During this period his team was the Count Financial Group’s largest national planning practice. John moved to another large accountancy practice in 1994, where in 1995 he won SECURITOR Financial Group’s “National Advisor of the Year” Award. This award recognised his professionalism, quality of service and business development expertise.
After eight years with SECURITOR John moved to Business Coaching, which involved helping financial planners sell their businesses.
Brett O’Malley
Brett has over 20 years of experience in the financial services sector. Brett started his career working for Commonwealth Bank for CommSec within the broking and personal advice sector. Brett managed many teams over his 15 years in stockbroking, working in many different management positions heading up derivatives and equities trading desks. During his time within the broking sector, he was also fortunate enough to be involved in the merger and acquisitions of well over 100 ASX listed companies. He helped fund the floating of well over 200 companies onto the Australian Stock Exchange.
After his tenure within the broking industry, Brett ventured out. He started doing commercial real estate for several years before moving into a business development positions for Flight Centre in their corporate division. Since then, Brett has gained his real estate licence within QLD and NSW. This vast array of experience in all aspects of business will help your business transition into the next phase of its business cycle.
Brett has an extensive background in AFL and played for ACT and NSW as a junior and was fortunate enough to play over 100 Senior Games for Queanbeyan in the Canberra football league. Brett has three school-aged children and is a committed dad on weekends taking kids from sporting event to sporting event.
Bob Blurton
Bob has over 40 years of experience in Financial Services, including various leadership positions in business development, sales and licensee services. This includes being the Qld state manager with AXA/Charter Financial Planning for 17 years, general manager for wealth management at Moore Stevens Queensland for three years, and running his own business coaching consulting company for six years.
With his long history of senior management within the financial services industry, he has much to offer entrepreneurs to meet their growth goals. Bob’s work in business coaching has helped many financial planners improve their lives and the value of their businesses. Bob has mentored numerous participants in the financial planning profession, including business owners, financial planners and practice managers. He has been involved in multiple acquisition transactions during his financial planning career.
Mick Taylor
Mick commenced his career as an accountant in professional practice, later moving to client advisory and sales management roles with two major financial services institutions. Since 1998 he has practised as a Financial Planner and has recently joined Radar Results as an Associate for Victoria and Tasmania.
Mick is married to Janene. Between them they have four children and five grandchildren who keep them very busy.
He has had a long career in cricket, both on and off the field with Casey South Melbourne Cricket Club, representing Victoria and Tasmania in Sheffield Shield cricket and the highlight of his career being asked to tour South Africa with Kim Hughes Rebel Australian team in 1985-86 and 1986-87. Post his playing career he has held roles as a Delegate to the Victorian Cricket Association and a member of the Cricket Victoria board for 8 years to 2006 and later Vice-President and President of Casey-South Melbourne Cricket Club.
These days Mick is also trying to lower his golf handicap and is now Captain of the Bendigo Golf Club and is also a keen AFL follower.
