User:BenShenton

History of CEO Ben Shenton
Born in 1972 in Alexandria Hospital to Joy and John Travellyn who were active members of The Family Cult located in Victoria. Both parents had changed their names by deed poll to facilitate me being handed over to tje leaders of the cult, Anne and Bill Hamilton-Byrne. My father's name, prior to changing it, was Peter Shenton a retired seaman from the British navy who saw active service in world war II on the Maidstone.

Rescued by Victorian Police from The Family property 'Kai Lama' on August 14 1987 as a fifteen year old.

Attended Wattle Park High in 1987, Camberwell High School between 1988-90 and completed Year 12.

Attended School of Mines and Industries Ballarat receiving and Advanced Certificate in Information Technology as part of Traineeship at the State Data Centre with the Victorian Department of Survey and Mapping

June 1997 employed by ISSC a joint venture between Lend Lease, IBM and Telstra that won a contract to manage the outsourced IT departments of VicRoads and PTC at a newly constructed data centre on the grounds of the Ballarat University. This was regarded as IBM Australia as they bought out their partners.

In 1998 completed Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology at Ballarat University which went on to be branded as Federation University.

2008 became Certified Project Manager with PMI institute and have remained with the company working in the Global Logistics CIO organisation of IBM in an Asia Pacific role.

Married in 1992 and father of two children born in 1998 and 2001 respectively.

Active member of Potters House Chrisitan Community since 1991 first in Ballarat and then Beechboro Western Australia since 2014.

Creation of Organisation 'Rescue The Family'
Started 'Rescue The Family' organisation after 30 years of study and experience to disseminate information on ideologies that start with an idea that takes root in the human personality and plays out in a community and creates a self propagating culture. These include political, religious and social genre's. Rosie Jones the editor of 'The Family' and Three Part Series 'The Cult of the Family' contacted Ben Shenton in 2012 through a website contact that Ben Shenton used to tell the story of how he overcame his childhood of growing up in 'The Family' In 2013 Rosie Jones recorded Ben Shenton giving a talk and has been used to promote talks done throughout Australia, India and Timor Leste. When The Family Movie premiered at MIFF Ben Shenton set up the organisation 'Rescue The Family' to provide information on how cults start, wound the human personality and how to overcome the damages done to move from Deliverance to Dominion from being a Victim to a Victor