Rod Petricevic has been involved in the finance industry for more than 30 years, and a director for a number of publicly listed companies in Australia and New Zealand.
Petricevic and his companies have had a coloured history.
Petricevic was successful in the 1980s, originally as apartner of merchant bank Fay, Richwhite & Co, and then as chairman and founder of investment group Euro-National - until the sharemarket crash in 1987.
Euro-National took complex positions with other glamour stocks including Ariadne, Renouf Corporation and Kupe, but when the market crashed, those put options were worth considerably less than was at first hoped.
Euro-National survives within the CDL group of companies, even though it made huge losses.
Euro National posted a $255 million loss in 1998, the year Petricevic resigned from the board.
Petricevic founded Bridgecorp, which has been a controversial company with a chequered history. Only a shell company existed in 1993 for Petricevic to revive - it had originally been a mining concern and was also in toy retailing.
Bridgecorp was banned from raising further public funds in Australia and was also rejected in at least two attempts to join the New Zealand Stock Exchange.
Petricevic is on record as blaming this on his past.
