User:Derek Mansfield/Derek Mansfield

Derek Mansfield is the President of the Bold Endeavours Group Ltd based in Staines, near Heathrow, London and Bold Endeavours LLC  in Kiev, Ukraine He is also President of Big Easy Software Ltd and Big Easy Software in Kiev Ukraine

Born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he attended Hemel Hempstead Grammar School before joining the Royal Navy as a Junior Seaman serving aboard [] HMS Resolution, the first of Britain's Polaris Missile submarines.

After the Navy Mansfield worked in Advertising and for News International and The Financial Times.

After a period of low key property development he started a landscape design company Strawberry Hill Designs. The company was the first in Europe to use 3D CAD for landscape design.

Using this experience Mansfield created the concept of the instant makeover garden with his book The Fitted Garden: Wall to Wall Garden Design ISBN10: 0706364074

The recession of the late 1980's and it's effect on property sales ended the landscape business and Mansfield retrained and studied for an MBA.

The use of 3D CAD led to an interest in computing systems and his introduction to the Internet in 1991 led to his current business interests.

Married with 2 children he commutes between Kiev and London.