At Arete Business Solutions, we are dedicated to unlocking the full potential of organisations and individuals to become the best they can be.  We do this by listening and delivering.  Listening to what you want to achieve and delivering through robust governance structures, clinical strategic thinking, and the application of forty years of experience in membership organisations.

Arete founder and MD, John White, has run numerous trade bodies in a diverse range of industries from garden furniture to food to timber.  Most recently he was CEO of bacta, the trade association for the amusement machine sector.  He is steeped in association management and has profound experience of what makes for an effective trade association from its governance to its lobbying to its members.  He believes that well-run trade bodies are essential to good public policy development as well as essential components of any industry that wants to grow.