EightBlack.

I started my career in the telecoms sector with guys like John Ilhan. I remember his wife Trish (who wasn’t his wife back then), used to be our account manager when I was at Hutchison and she was working with MobileNet. Back in the days when Telstra was called “Telecom”.

I remember his single, lonely shop across the road from Strathfield Car Radios in Brunswick. In fact, we used to sell him stock when he needed it. I remember him buying one at a time on his credit card. He’d sell it, and then come back again and buy another one. Over and over.

I remember when everyone thought he was mad when he changed the name of his business from MobileWorld to “Crazy John’s”.

Life doesn’t seem fair when at 42, and without warning, it ends.

An 8th month old son who will never know his dad, 3 daughters who will miss him terribly and a wife who’s just had the most monumental news anyone could imagine.

It’s tragedies like this that you can’t explain. To anyone. My heart goes out to his family, his friends and the people he touched. Which were many.

“Carpe Diem. Seize the day… “

(Image courtesy SMH, Australia)

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