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Kim Forrester – Spiritual Commentator

Kim is a Spiritual Commentator with over 10 years’ experience as a professional Psychic Medium.  She combines her passion for media and public speaking with her desire to modernize New Age spirituality – creating no-nonsense videos, blogs and seminars about psychic and spiritual phenomena.

Her goal is to help people understand that modern New Age does not come dressed in tie-dye kaftans and moccasins – it wears corporate suits, kick-ass heels and has a Ph.D. in Quantum Physics.

Kim is returning for our regular segment: Startup and the Psychic

Miriam Feiler – Start Up Australia Movement

Miriam Feiler is an entreprenueur specialising in creating and launching industry-strengthening events. As former owner of Trade Australia and Import Export Show, she has now teamed up with a group of Australia’s most well known entrepreneurs to bring the global start up movement to Australia. Start Up Australia has launched on Facebook and Twitter, and is weeks away from launching its website and an annual program of events and education specifically for starting and early stage Australian businesses across all industry sectors.

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Karen Scott Davie – Digital Sydney

• Director of Digital Sydney based at UTS
• Director of the CIO Executive Council of Australia
• Background as a CIO, CFO, mentor, digital marketing and project management
• Worked in Asia, Europe, USA and across Australia
• Currently on the board of Tassie Tourism helping with their digital strategy
• Passionate about online learning and helping businesses using innovative technology effectively
• Launched her first startup 16 years ago

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Josh Golombick – White Collar Quotes

Josh started his career in investment banking but quickly realised that the corporate world was not for him. He abandoned ship 8 months ago to start White Collar Quotes – an online platform that matches consumers with White Collar Professionals – and has not looked back.

White Collar Quotes gives consumers instantaneous access to a pool of pre-screened professionals. Once on the site, consumers can submit a request for a professional (accountant, financial planner, mortgage broker etc) giving the exact specifications of what they need done. The request is than matched with three professionals that are best equipped to handle the request. The matching process is based on a number of factors resulting in three directly comparable quotes from three professionals in a very short time frame.

The website has launched in Sydney and has been well received by both consumers and professionals. The business is intended to provide choice and transparency to the consumers while giving professionals access to a whole new range of eager clients.

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Avis Mulhall – Looloo Paper

An Irish girl who ditched her successful corporate career to live in a rainforest in Africa, Avis is an inspiring and determined young woman who has overcome adversity to follow her passions and fearlessly invent a better future.

A respected expert on social enterprise and collaborative consumption, Avis is a true social innovator who recently represented Australia at the G20 YES Summit in Mexico and was named in Sydney Magazines Top 100 People of Influence for 2012. She is the co-founder of global social travel network mmMule.com, creator of Sydney’s fastest growing change-maker community Think Act Change and founder of Looloo Paper – a toilet paper business that uses its profits to improve sanitation in developing countries.

Avis enthrals audiences with stories of her own transformation and in doing so, gets us each to examine our own purpose and motives to enhance the world around us. Her personal story is not only an inspiration, but the way she tells it is fantastic. She is sure to bring lots of laughs as well as some poignant lessons learned along the way.

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Jeff Downs – Redback Conferencing

Jeff Downs has had a number of successful start ups in both Canada and Australia.

Jeff started a small chain of grocery stores immediately after graduating from university in Toronto, Canada. On September 11th, 2001, he launched a teleconferencing company in Toronto. While it was a terrible day to start a business, by 2003, the company developed in to Canada’s 12th fastest growing startup.

After selling the business Jeff & his young family moved to Sydney at the end of June, 2007 to start up another conferencing company – Redback Conferencing. Redback was on the BRW’s Fast Starter list in 2012.

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Natasha Hawker – Employee Matters

Natasha started Employee Matters, with her partner Mark because they see many small to medium businesses (SMEs) that desperately need help with their people issues. We believe that you need HR support at particular times in your business but not necessarily in a full-time capacity.

We know that to have a successful business you need to be surrounded by a great team to help you deliver your service or product and free up your time to focus on your business critical issues.

So they integrated Natasha’s extensive HR and business experience with Mark’s finance background, to provide the HR support and business understanding that you need.

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Jason Allison – Suncorp

Jason has extensive knowledge of workers compensation, developed over more than 24 years in the insurance industry. He began as claims manager and is now responsible for the national portfolio management of GIO Workers Compensation, which is part of the Suncorp Group.

Jason will be taking us through the latest changes to WorkCover and how they effect you.

Phil Khor & Wendy Huang – Savvy SME

Phil Khor and Wendy Huang are experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping other entrepreneurs. Phil has previously built a multi-million dollar professional services business from the ground up, drawing on extensive management experience, whilst Wendy is an experienced digital marketer – having headed up the social media department at one of Australia’s leading marketing agency. Their current venture, SavvySME is a social network all about helping time-poor Australian small-business owners to find the right service providers and support through a full-featured b2b social commerce setting.

The startup has recently launched a beta version of the social media platform and within a few short months, the community has grown very fast with hundreds of local businesses already on board and using the site actively. According to one of the members, “SavvySME is a great resource for professional service firms and small business. The range of expertise and wealth of knowledge available through a simple Q&A format is remarkable. We’ve already made valuable connections with several other like-minded business owners who’ve been able to provide insight into our business.”

SavvySME is now fast becoming a popular destination online for Australian business owners or anyone thinking about starting a business.

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Ben Thompson – Employment Hero
Ben is a co-host on our Eagle Business show.

Ben Thompson is a solicitor and business owner who thrives on creating innovative solutions that combine employment and technology to help Australian employers. His experience in finance, law and start-ups has given him a broad perspective and sharp insight.

His boundless curiosity, enthusiasm and ambition has spawned multiple online and offline ventures centred around the employment relationship for small businesses.

These include an employment law firm, various HR technology platforms and the world’s best employee reward and recognition solution, Power2Motivate. He is a member of the Entrepreneur’s Organisation in Sydney, as well as EO Quantum Leap.

His latest startup, Employment Hero, provides Australian business owners with a virtual HR department which is accessible and affordable. Log on to www.employmenthero.com and enter the promo code RADIOEW for a free 30 day trial with a free Hero Call!

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Braydan Willrath – Interactive Accounting

Braydan started out as a Kidpreneur from Hervey Bay, Queensland. He started his first business helping friends with IT problems at ripe old age of 12. His experiences range from SEO to barman, computer networking to skilled barista and now is the Google apps king.

Braydan is a Serial Entrepreneur at heart concentrating all his energy and focus into Cloud based products. He has an outstanding knowledge of all things tech and loves to share what he knows with others.

Currently working for Interactive Accounting as a Systems Guru, Braydan is working closely with Xero and many other products that link with the cloud based accounting software.

These are the companies Braydan spoke about during the show:

Interactive Accounting – interactiveaccounting.com.au
GeoOp – geoop.com
Tradie Pad – tradiepad.com
Xero – xero.com
Affinity Live – affinitylive.com

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Natasha Hawker – Employee Matters

Natasha started Employee Matters, with her partner Mark because they see many small to medium businesses (SMEs) that desperately need help with their people issues. We believe that you need HR support at particular times in your business but not necessarily in a full-time capacity.

We know that to have a successful business you need to be surrounded by a great team to help you deliver your service or product and free up your time to focus on your business critical issues.

So they integrated Natasha’s extensive HR and business experience with Mark’s finance background, to provide the HR support and business understanding that you need.

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Lucas McEntee – Prplness

Lucas McEntee is an entrepreneur focused on the digital space.

Having owned and operated a online retailer business which was sold in late 2012. Prior to that Lucas owned and operated a Corporate Advisory business for four years, before selling to an accounting firm in late 2010.

These experiences led Lucas to establish Prplness. A social shopping site that rewards its members with cashback on each purchase. Prplness currently has over 1000 retailers and 10m products operating in the US, UK and Australia.

Australian shoppers are mostly unaware that every time they click on an advert, banner or text link to a retailer, the referring website earns commission. We aim to share that commission with the Australian shopper. It’s potentially millions of dollars a year! Receiving cashback from 1000’s of retailers with no risk or cost to that consumer is a huge benefit.

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Joanne Ryan – Infodec Communications

Joanne Ryan is the Managing Director of Infodec Communications. She has extensive experience working in the media industry in Australia.

She worked for several years in media marketing and editorial departments at News Limited, gaining inside knowledge of how to effectively communicate with the media.

She also worked for several years as a Corporate Development Advisor with News Limited. During that time she researched and advised on a vast number of regulatory and policy issues affecting News Limited nationally and News Corporation on a global scale.

She also represented the organisation to Government and was a member of a number of industry committees including the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Intellectual Property consultative group.

Policy areas of expertise include media ownership and regulation, anti-siphoning, the Do Not Call Register, industrial relations, intellectual property and the Australia USA Free Trade agreement.

Joanne’s formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) and a Master of International Studies from the University of Sydney.

Infodec was founded by Joanne in 2009 and since that time the company has worked with clients including industry groups, large corporations, Federal Government departments, online media organisations, individuals and small businesses.

Joanne has also recently started up a new digital publishing venture called Loligo Media.

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Melanie Perkins – Canva

At 25, Melanie is already a serial entrepreneur who raised one of Australia’s largest early stage VC fundraisers after pitching the concept of Canva, a disruptive platform allowing anyone to create professional quality designs, to venture capitalists and angels in Silicon Valley and Australia. At 19, Melanie founded Fusion Books, an online design system for schools to create their yearbooks. This is now the biggest yearbook company in Australia and has expanded to France and New Zealand.

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Kelly Pothan – itGenius

Computers have always been Kelly’s passion and she have always enjoyed the challenges they present! Technology is a key part of life now and Kelly’s passion led her towards this career choice.

Kelly has progressed a lot in itGenius over these last 18 months. The technologies she has learned have helped her push her knowledge ahead of fellow students who are just finishing their IT qualifications! At itGenius, they take care of all your IT problems and help you move your business away from that server in the corner!

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Denise Shrivell – MediaScope

Denise Shrivell has been actively involved in the advertising, publishing & media industry for over 25 years – working with advertising agencies and many well known media brands. 3 years ago she started MediaScope – which has now grown into Australia’s most comprehensive directory of advertising options with over 3500 listings focussing on niche, alternative & emerging media. MediaScope also produces an ever growing range of resources and services including information on planning advertising campaigns, case studies, profiles, a popular weekly newsletter & the well known MediaScape guides. Denise runs MediaScope as a solo business.

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Jeff Downs – Redback Conferencing

Jeff Downs has had a number of successful start ups in both Canada and Australia.

Jeff started a small chain of grocery stores immediately after graduating from university in Toronto, Canada. On September 11th, 2001, he launched a teleconferencing company in Toronto. While it was a terrible day to start a business, by 2003, the company developed in to Canada’s 12th fastest growing startup.

After selling the business Jeff & his young family moved to Sydney at the end of June, 2007 to start up another conferencing company – Redback Conferencing. Redback was on the BRW’s Fast Starter list in 2012.

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Our show on Thursday, 28 March will feature…

Joel Hauer – WeCo

Joel Hauer started his career in Advertising, as an account manager then quickly developed his skills as a Digital Producer.

His background in Marketing & Commerce enabled him to converse between analytical business topics, and marketing influences to generate valuable ideas for his clients. After many small business attempts, including photography studio & memorabilia sales, Joel set-up a startup hub for Entrepreneurs in Sydney’s East.

His newly formed co-working space called WeCo hosts a gamut of events, for startups & freelancers, allowing them to grow their skills & knowledge whilst also expanding their networks & collaborative influences. His inspiration comes from understanding the pains of working from home, and realizing the need for collaboration within all startups in Sydney.

His space is located in Edgecliff, and hosts up to 35 like-minded people. To find out more visit http://www.weco.com.au

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Shona will be discussing social media news and Mat will be filling us in on the latest startup news!

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Jamie McKean – The Profit Partnership (NZ) Limited

Jamie is a self-described “coffee drinking English fella” who can do some serious damage with a whiteboard marker to redesign or refine your business. He is living the work/life balance with his young family from the countryside of New Zealand. An international speaker, published author, teacher, mentor, a proud dad and an obedient husband. :)

You can read the short, long and funny version of ‘about Jamie’, here.

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David Henderson – David Henderson Online

David Henderson is one of a rare breed – a qualified and skilled financial services and business consulting professional who has also achieved success as a business owner and entrepreneur. David is a director on the board of a public company and CEO Asia Pacific of ROCG, an international professional services firm which specialises in family and privately owned businesses.

David is the creator of the exciting CashMAX™ suite of business accelerating tools specifically designed for privately owned businesses and based on years of work with thousands of SME companies. He has personally helped many of these owners generate their own business success.

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And Mat and Shona will be discussing with David: are the startup/tech/IT industry abusing 457 visas?

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Arrnott Olssen – Sydney Matters!

Arrnott is coming in to chat about his new role as a segment editor on our Sydney Matters show (launching soon!)

Arrnott Olssen first came to the attention of the Australian public as the larger-than-life performer with one heck of a set of vocal chords on the first season of the television series Popstars.

The then larger-than-life singer left such a distinctive impression on the audience that a cult following developed, and by the time Arrnott returned for the 2004 series his fan-base was snowballing with such momentum that it swept him to finish in 4th place, cementing Arrnott as a voice to be reckoned with.

His passion for Fitness, Fashion, Food and Lifestyle have culminated in his widely read blog Rogue Homme, gathering a rapidly growing following from around the world.

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Hayden Kerr – My Casting Net

Hayden has spent a large part of his career working with technology. After spending a decade working in financial services he started MyCastingNet with the idea of building some software to help his wife cast Television shows, which at the time was done using paper applications, DVD videos mailed in and excel spreadsheets.

As often happens, there were more people than just his wife needing to collect casting information online, and this demand has helped MyCastingNet to grow and become the go to solution for online casting for many of the industries biggest players.

Outside work Hayden has a keen interest in Horses (Polo) and recently became a father.

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Peter Moriarty – itGenius

We’re the IT Department for companies that can’t afford their own IT department. The team at itGenius are led by business owner Peter Moriarty, who started his IT Support business out of his bedroom at the age of 15.

The team at itGenius are a based in Crows Nest, Sydney. We provide Outsourced, Managed IT Support Services for many businesses in Sydney and across Australia covering thousands of IT devices.

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