Corporate players

Steve Carroll

Part of the original team that started the implementation of Juliana's Tokyo but left Juliana's before the Club opened. No longer in the business Steve Iron man Carroll now lives in Indonesia having built his house beside a Volcano where he looks after his company building some amazing high quality Teak furniture.

Mike Coker

JLG London JT project Management and procurement.

Mike was responsible for seeing that the myriad of parts and equipment needed to construct the Club was sourced, purchased and shipped to Japan in good time.

Mike left the business a few years after Juliana's closed and his current whereabouts are not known.

Paul French

Juliana's Asia DJ Coordinator aka Frenchie

Based in the Singapore office, Paul was responsible for organizing the records, CDs and videos needed for the early days of the Club along with sourcing and organizing the DJs we needed to make the Club work.

Paul is married and living in Singapore

Roger Hearn

LRG London Financial Controller aka Nozzles

Roger came to Japan and Juliana's Tokyo from the London office to oversee the commercial and financial aspects of an increasingly important contract. His skills and knowledge were immediately recognized by us in Japan and we basically shanghaied him into joining us. His easy going nature coupled with his strict financial discipline and general all round corporate knowledge ensured that we survived the management buyout of the Asian operation from LRG.

After Japan, spells followed as a financial trouble shooter at various Companies in Europe and Asia. Roger eventually returned to England. He has at last married and has a young family.

Chris Holmes

Juliana's London and Wembley Leisure. After his spell with Wembley Leisure, Chris later went on to work for Magicorp in Canada.

Masato Matsura

Avex Trax aka Max. The Japanese producer of many of our JUliana's Tokyo CDs.

Allan McCabe

Electrical installation contractor

Allan was the man on the ground at most Juliana's designed Clubs throughout the world. When the containers full of equipment were due to arrive from London, Allan would not be far behind with his bag of tool., His warm personality immediately making friends where ever he went. Language was never a barrier to Allan as few people understood his Glaswegian accent anyway. Hard working, his ability to both work and play hard meant not only that Clubs opened on time but that the installation contractors in every country took him as one of their own.

Now retired from globetrotting, Alan spends his time in Glasgow with his wife Eleanor and his family.

Masahiro Origuchi

After graduating from the National Defense Academy, he joined major trading firm Nissho Iwai. In 1991, while he was still with the trading firm, he was the producer for Juliana's. Origuchi left Nissho Iwai to start another club, Velfarre after the closure of Juliana's Tokyo. Soon after the disco opened in 1993, it became a huge success. But he didn't remain in the world of nightclubs. Using his networks of young people who hung out at discos and were in need of temporary jobs, he then founded the temp agency Goodwill Group.

Ardan Peddell

JLG Singapore Julianas Tokyo Design team Singapore

The supreme technician and general all round computer genius at Juliana's office in Singapore, Ardan was responsible for the initial designs and creating the working drawings for the Club. He was to leave the company before the Club opened as one of the Gang of four, but without his expertise the Club would not have been what it was.

Ardan still lives in Singapore and is a Director of Emerald Hill Group.

Simon Rees

Wembley Leisures man in Japan, Simon helped us find our way when we first started life in Japan. He also saved our bacon many times later on.

Richard Seeley

MD Leisure Resources Group London aka Ritchee Dee

Richard oversaw the construction and opening of the Club from afar as he ran the London office. After the Juliana's Asia and Europe buyout, Richard bought the London operation which he still runs keeping the name of Juliana's alive in 5 star Hotels. He also has interests in an AV control company and seems to split his time these days between England and Dubai.

David Spooner

Mechanical installation contractor

David was the other half of our Juliana's A team, Wherever Allan McCabe was, David was not far behind. David would produce most of the mechanical fittings and fixtures for the DJ consoles in flat pack form and then make them fit on site. Between Allan and David there was not much they couldn't make work. Once the Club was open and the party over, his tools were packed back into containers and off he went to build the next one.

David was last heard of in Dubai after spells back in Asia and the Philippines.

Mike Thomsett

JLG Singapore JT pre opening engineering.

Mike was one of the gang of four who left Juliana's almost as soon as I arrived. I didn't say something wrong did I guys. Mike took Ardan designs and made them reality. A consummate technician and a quiet professional Mike is responsible for installing many Clubs before and since Juliana's Tokyo throughout Asia. Mike still lives and works in Singapore.

Oliver Vaughan

Oliver started his business career in 1966 when he co-founded Juliana's Discotheques with his brother Thomas. The company was subsequently renamed Juliana's Holdings Plc. The company was floated in June 1983 with a market value of £13m and sold to Wembley Plc in 1989 for £34m. During Oliver's time building Juliana's, he was mostly based in the company's Hong Kong office.

Thomas Vaughan

In 1966 Tom Vaughan and his brother Oliver co-founded and built up the company that became Juliana's Holdings Plc probably the world's largest Discotheque Entertainment group of its time. Following the £30 plus million sale of Juliana's in 1989, Tom became an Executive Director of Wembley Leisure Ltd.

Mark Vlassopulos

Mark came out from London to head up the Asia Pacific operation from its base in Singapore. After his time at Juliana's, Mark went on to form Daedalus Developments Company, where he led the development of some major integrated resorts and leisure complexes, including the first "integrated resorts" in South East Asia. Mark Vlassopulos is the co-founder and president of Eight Wonder, a global resort and gaming developer based in Las Vegas, US. Prior to this Mark was founder and president of Asia Net Media based in Singapore and the president of Billboardlive Multi Media, a corporation based in Las Vegas involved with on-line web based multimedia.

Michael Wilkings

Michael worked for the Vaughan brothers establishing the North American business of Juliana's before coming back to London to run the entire world wide sales operation. After Juliana's, he was the CEO of Magicorp later known as Lucid Entertainment in Canada. Michael is currently the International President for the Ministry of Sound as well as having interests in a myriad of other leisure based companies.

Tom Yoda

Avex Trax CEO and Chairman

Tom Yoda was born on May 27, 1940, in Japan's Nagano Prefecture. By 1975, he was General Manager of Los Angeles Branch of Sansui Electric and by 1988, he had held various titles at Sansui Electric all over the world, finally becoming its Director. After Mr. Yoda resigned his Directorship at Sansui Electric Co., Ltd., he founded a consulting company, Thomas Yoda Limited . Mr. Yoda met some college graduates, who had founded Avex D.D., Inc. in 1990, which would later become Avex Inc. in 1998. They had a dream and a business plan-to distribute imported dance music in Japan. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of that company in 1993. Tom became famous for his bold strategies and powerful leadership which brought that company to the top of its industry within 10 years, with annual revenues in excess of US$420 million, along with a listing in the highest division of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.