Sean Joyce, the disappearing backdoor specialist

Sean Joyce, the disappearing backdoor specialist
Sean Joyce is chairman of Goodwood Capital, a director of Ascension Capital, and chair of Blackwell Global Holdings.
Brian Gaynor
Sean Joyce is a backdoor listing specialist along with John Sorenson, Brett Wilkinson, Tim Preston, Chris Castle and Roger Gower.But Joyce is in the best position to be involved in the next reverse takeover as he is on the board of the three smallest NZX companies by market value. He is chairman of Goodwood Capital, which has a market value of only $900,000, a director of Ascension Capital ($1.9 million) and is chairman of Blackwell Global Holdings ($3.5m).How has Joyce obtained these positions and what can we expect from these three small comp...

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