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<\/p>\nGreg Inglis is the business brain behind Picaluna with a background in hospitality, events and sales in a range of diverse companies. His experience includes managing a corporate hospitality team at Nine Entertainment, delivering results at Sensis Yellow Pages, establishing a startup in the news agency space and working with a TV station in Fiji. He\u2019s skilled at sales management, seeking out new opportunities and executing sales plans across different mediums and is adept at inspiring enthusiasm by listening and engaging.<\/p>\n
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As one of Picaluna\u2019s co-founders, he\u2019s been with the company since its inception, and is one of the driving forces to achieve change with the funeral industry.<\/span><\/p>\n Working in the funeral industry was never on Greg\u2019s agenda. But a significant factor in his entry into the industry was the death of his mother.\u00a0 He explained, \u201cI lost my Mum in 1999 from cancer. It was just four months from diagnosis to death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He describes it as a \u201cvery negative experience\u201d but a transformative one, too. \u201cIf you\u2019d told me years ago I\u2019d be in the funeral business, I would have said you\u2019re talking nonsense!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy Mum loved the races; she and I used to go all the time. Knowing what I know now, we would have had her cremated, held on to her ashes for a few weeks to get over that really sad, deep grieving period, and then I would have bought a hundred tickets to Randwick Race Day. Everyone dresses up to the nines; we drink champagne, eat caviar, tell funny stories about Mum and then (with permission) scatter her ashes at the winning post. Now THAT would be a great send off for Mum. That would be authentic to who she was, not the 45 minute service we had in the chapel two days after she died. That\u2019s why I\u2019m in it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n