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Business can be a very powerful way to deliver your passion to the world, generate cashflow and build a valuable asset.  Being part of a successful business is a great place to be!

Whether you are an employee or you own your own business, there are a multitude of ways that you can add more value across the business.

We support our members to become better business people through our business expert contributors, our business expert panel, as well as our business skills mentoring program  This gives members access to know-how, tool and techniques, networks and personal support.

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Fergus Herbert

Fergus Herbert

Areas of expertise      Business

Specialities                  Business growth, early stage ventures, capital raising

Fergus is a founder and managing partner of ORB Capital, Chairman of Edge Custom Media (a custom publisher) and a Director of Global Valve Technology Ltd (a disruptive valve technology), Fergus has been involved with the incubation of many companies with compelling growth characteristics.

Fergus has started, owned, managed, and sold a number of successful enterprises and has assisted a large number of disruptive technology companies to raise what had previously seemed ‘impossible’ development capital.  He has been the Managing Director of four successful businesses, including Tourism Australia Ink, which he sold to the publicly listed Text Media Group in 1998.

Fergus is adept at helping emerging companies understand what they need to do to reach a state of commercial success.

David Gold

David Gold

Areas of expertise      Business

Specialities                  Business growth, early stage ventures

David Gold is one of Australia’s most successful young entrepreneurs. He’s been behind LookSmart, Dstore and Azure and is a regular on the BRW Rich List.

A  serial entrepreneur he’s on to more exciting new ventures as Founder and CEO of Igloo Zoo, a new age retailer in the food space, and Chairman of Simply Sold, a chain of eBay consignment stores.

Through the highs and lows of the dot com boom, gaining the backing of the Australia’s second wealthiest man, Lloyd Williams, David has a wealth of experiences of how to start, operate and successfully exit a new venture.

Ric Raso

Ric Raso


Areas of expertise      Business

Specialities                  Business structures, taxation

Ric is a partner with the Chartered Accounting firm - McBurney & Partners.  McBurney & Partners have been providing professional taxation, business advisory and audit services for over 80 years. A full service firm, McBurney & Partners are committed to providing clients with expert and cost-effective solutions.
 
Ric is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia.  He has a Masters in Taxation Law and a Bachelors of Business.  Ric has been involved in tax and accounting since 1989.
 
Ric specialises in provision of local and international tax advice. In addition to taxation, Ric advises on business structuring, management consulting, management reporting, cash flow projections and superannuation. He has extensive audit experience in small and medium sized enterprises and has assisted in the evaluation and implementation of internal controls for a variety of businesses.

Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall - Swaab

Areas of expertise      Business

Specialities                  Intellectual Property

Matthew is a partner with SWAAB Attorneys, recognised by BRW magazine as the "Best Law Firm" in its category for the last two years running.

Matthew Hall is an experienced intellectual property, information technology and e-commerce lawyer, and a registered trade mark attorney. He has expertise in identifying, protecting and commercialising intellectual property rights. He has a particular interest in digital content and rights management.

A regular presenter at industry conferences and workshops, Matthew lectures on the commercialisation of intellectual property at post-graduate level at the University of Queensland. Matthew is the chair of the advisory board of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property Research in Agriculture and is also a member of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Advisory Council, appointed on the recommendation of the Chancellor of Griffith University.

Peter Warner

Peter Warner

Areas of expertise      Business, Personal Development

Specialities                  Capital raising, deal execution, leadership

Peter Warner has for many years been at the forefront of commercial troubleshooting and analysis. He has worked with a number of Australia’s premier business leaders to formulate and execute business strategies both in public and private companies. These include Freshtel, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Unilever, Yum, Zurich Insurance, Fuji Xerox and Adobe.

From 2004 onward, Peter has been working with the publicly listed Freshtel Holdings (ASX: FRE). Peter’s role at Freshtel included Chief Executive Officer, Commercial Director and Director - Corporate Affairs. Success includes leading all capital raisings for the business totaling in excess of $30M AU, the listing of the company on the Australian Stock Exchange and final negotiations and sign off of the companies major Tesco contract in the United Kingdom.

Peter has managed a parallel career as one of Australia's top yachtsmen, accumulating two world titles, 10+ Australian titles and was a member of the Australian Olympic Sailing Team in the run-up to the 2000 Games.

Barnaby De Palma

Barnaby De Palma

Areas of expertise      Business

Specialities                  Internet Marketing

Barnaby De Palma is on the leading edge of web 2.0 and is the CEO of Alive Online, having been around web design and internet marketing since 1996. Alive Online has grown into a boutique web design and marketing company. From its humble beginnings in April 1996 from the home of Barnaby De Palma, the growth of Alive Online has been driven by Barnaby’s passion.

Alive Online has successfully established itself as a trusted company for web hosting now offering full services in modular web design; web hosting, domain name hosting and eCommerce.

In addition to web design & hosting Alive Online offers a range of marketing services and has recently moved into the area of social marketing. A few years back early innovator Barnaby saw the potential in web 2.0 and has been driving Alive Online in this direction. Alive Online prides itself on their ongoing commitment to educating businesses on internet marketing through seminars, workshops and teleconferences.

Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor

Areas of expertise      Business

Specialities                  Strategy, Business Consulting

An active business advisor, Mark has an impressive client list from Bluechips such as Unilever, GSK to exciting emerging businesses such as Freshtel & Onetest, to Innovation hothouses such as TTP Group, Mark has a diverse set of experiences to draw from.

Mark is currently the founder and Managing Director of KeysToSuccessClub.com and is passionate about helping others to fulfill their potential.

 

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