Ken Frost

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My name is Ken Frost, I currently live in London. I enjoy cooking, eating, socialising and current events. I have been told that I can be quite "direct;" however, I have a good sense of humour. Here is a "brief" potted history of my career path, which inevitably has affected my life path:

I was born in London. I studied Economics and Accounting at Edinburgh University (1980-84) great fun, and a lovely city! I even managed to gain an MA, despite the distractions!

I then joined KPMG London (1984-1989), and qualified as a chartered accountant: very hard work! I joined Philips Electronics UK (1989) as an Internal Audit Manager, travelling to all parts of the UK and Ireland. I visited factories, sales organisations, etc. and met a very broad cross section of people.

In the early 90s my work took a more international flavour, and I spent time in such places as Simi Valley, Salt Lake City, Darmstadt, Best, Eindhoven and Seoul. Great fun (can an internal auditor have fun?) and most definitely life enhancing. I even popped up to the Demilitarised Zone, on the border between North and South Korea, and stared at the North Koreans as they stared back at me.

In 1996 I moved to Stockholm (wonderful city) to set up the Philips Nordic audit department. This gave me the opportunity to regularly travel, at the company's expense (why pay for something yourself when you can get someone else to?), around Norway, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Life enhancing experiences which I will not forget. I also set up the world-wide Fraud Investigation Department for Philips NV.

During my time in Sweden I met my partner Eva. We moved to London in 2000, and I joined De Beers as Head of Audit (can you see a pattern forming here?) to set up their new department. Yet more travel, at other people's expense, this time to Namibia, South Africa (I went down a diamond mine there), Russia and Switzerland.

I left De Beers in 2001, and decided that the time was right to try my hand at writing and running a website. I have always enjoyed cooking (I started testing my "skills" in the kitchen when I was seven) and decided to compile a selection of my favourite recipes (approx 120), coupled with a travelogue of the places I have visited and experiences I have enjoyed (eg. quaffing whisky with a colleague at 2:00AM under the stars in a game reserve near Windhoek, whilst the lions, and other assorted wildlife, roared and grunted in the background). The manuscript is complete, and can be viewed on the "Accountants Can Cook" section of my website: www.kenfrost.com "The Living Brand".

In addition to developing and growing my website, I am a director of Phoenix.

Phoenix's mission is to marry investors with investment opportunities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK); in order to take advantage of the the economic reforms, which are taking place there, which have made foreign investment easier. I am also a director of Hana Electronics JVC, which is based in Pyongyang DPRK. Hana manufactures and sells DVD and VCD players, it also presses and sells VCDs and DVDs.

In 2006 I was ranked 11th on Accountancy Age's Financial Powerlist for 2006 of the top 50 of "The Ones To Watch." The list identifies the "most influential names to look out for" in the world of finance for 2006.