Luke Fleming

Director of Human Resources
ICC Sydney

ICC Sydney’s Director of Human Resources, Luke Fleming, is a business events and hospitality industry specialist with over 20 years’ experience in managing expansive workforces both in Australia, Asia and the United States. Luke was an integral part of ICC Sydney’s pre-opening stage having joined the premier Convention, Exhibition and Entertainment venue in March 2016. 
  
Initially responsible for managing ICC Sydney’s sizable permanent and casual workforce planning requirements, Luke’s strengths in strategic business planning, talent acquisition and onboarding, employment relations and industrial compliance earned him a sound reputation as a highly effective people leader. 
  
Luke was recognised by his peers winning the Extraordinaires Awards in 2019 in the Innovation and Creativity category and again in 2021 by the Human Resource Director Magazine as the Australian Human Resource Manager of the Year. Luke is an avid champion of ICC Sydney’s Diversity and Inclusion program. He is a Diversity Inclusion Trainer, certified DISC Practitioner, trained Mental Health and First Aid Responder and key member of ICC Sydney’s internal COVID Taskforce.  
  
A long standing member of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Luke’s Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Human Resources, coupled with being a qualified Trainer and Assessor holds him in good stead to bring business best practices to his role. 
  
Luke is highly skilled at leading top performing, multi-disciplinary teams; developing and maintaining key relationships with stakeholders to drive quality and exemplary service delivery in the business events sector while ensuring team member safety, health and wellbeing remains a focal point. 

Sarah Walsh

Head of Women’s Football and former Matilda

Sarah Walsh is a former Australian international athlete with 70 caps and 35 international goals for the Matildas. She has a decorated career including appearances in the 2004 Olympics and 2007 FIFA World Cup. She clinched victory at the 2010 Women’s Asian Cup. 

Since then, Sarah has evolved into an accomplished sports executive, Logie-nominated commentator, and compelling public speaker. Her firsthand experience in high-performance sports has translated into advocating for pay equity and inclusion, spearheading innovation in governance and policy driving social change at all levels of football. 

Notably, as Head of Women’s Football for Football Australia, she influenced the strategy that generated a staggering $357M for football’s World Cup leveraging strategy through government and commercial investment, with an additional $200M earmarked to improve community infrastructure for women and girls across all sports. As hosts of the most commercial FIFA Women’s World Cup, the Matildas shattered attendance and viewership records, drawing over 11 million viewers during the semi-final against England, making it the single highest rating TV program of all time. 

Recently ranked 22nd on News Corps’ list of 100 most influential women in sport, Sarah’s illustrious playing and professional career converge in this pivotal moment. 

Today she serves as the Head of Women’s Football, Women’s World Cup Legacy and Inclusion at Football Australia. 

Pritho Saxena

Director HR – China, Australia & Southeast Asia
Amazon

Pritho currently leads HR for Amazon’s consumer businesses and corporate teams based in Australia, China, Singapore and Philippines. He has helped build and run billion dollar businesses across a number of countries (India, China, Singapore and Australia) and industries (Devices, Digital Content, Publishing & Consumer Retail) He has over 17 years of experience in enabling business strategy execution through people as well as leading diverse teams across geographies. Prior to Amazon, he was at IBM where he led large scale programs focused on workforce research, diversity, rewards, education assistance and case management. He is an alumni of IBM’s prestigious Corporate Service Corps. Pritho is passionate about helping people unblock their potential and simplifying things.

Rebecca Roberts

Chief People and Culture Officer
St. Vincent’s Health

Rebecca is a versatile executive with an extensive background in People and Culture and law who has led organisational change to ensure operations are strategic, optimised and service focused. After a career in law both within Australia and internationally, Rebecca joined St Vincent’s as Executive Director Legal and Commercial Services in 2014 at St Vincent’s Public Hospital Melbourne. In 2018, Rebecca was appointed to lead the People and Culture and Corporate Services and 2021, Rebecca took up the same role at St Vincent’s Public Health Network Sydney. Rebecca commenced her role as Chief People & Culture Officer at St Vincent’s in early 2023 where she now proudly leads our 30,000 people who deliver incredible care to those we serve.

Avani Prabhakar

SVP – Global Head of Talent and HR
Atlassian

Avani Prabhakar is the Global Head of Talent and HR Business Partners at Atlassian. Avani is an accomplished People executive with international experience across APAC, the Middle East and US. Avani leads a team of ~100 people across Human Resource Business Partners, Employment Relations, Talent, M&A and DEI across Atlassian’s global footprint. She’s passionate about leading people strategy to deliver outcomes and driving culture transformation in organisations going through a change journey.

Ian Thorpe

9-time Olympic Gold Medallist
World Record Holder

Ian Thorpe is without doubt, one of the most successful sportspeople Australia has ever produced. Ian’s accomplishments are nothing short of amazing, Over his highly-successful swimming career, Ian won 11 World Championship titles, claimed 10 Commonwealth Games medals, broke 22 World Records and was the first person in history to win six gold medals in one World Championship. He won 9 Olympic medals during his swimming career, a record that cements his place in history as one of Australia’s greatest Olympians.  

Julian Arndt

Director
Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors

Julian is a Director at Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors, a workplace and employment law firm that only acts for employers and employer associations.

His expertise focuses on bargaining, union disputes and employee claims, and with his varied experience acting for peak employer associations he has been involved in large scale industrial test cases and, more recently, in consulting with Government regarding legislative change.

Over the past nine years, Julian has acted as the lead employer advocate in a range of prominent test cases including the Family and Domestic Violence Leave Test cases, the Family Friendly (s 65) award test case, the Paid Pandemic Leave case, the Childcare Industry case, the Retail Industry junior rates case, the casual and part-time test case and the Casual review 2021. Julian was also in the team involved in the well-known ‘penalty rates case’.

His experience ranges across a wide variety of industries including aged care, labour hire, horticulture, early childhood education and care, retail, health and transport.

In 2023 he co-authored the first book on Owner-Driver Law in Australia and has been recognized by Doyles as a Rising Star in Employment law.

Alissa Bartlett

Chief People Officer
JCDecaux

Alissa Bartlett is JCDecaux’s Chief People Officer and leads the Out-of-Home media company’s People and Culture strategy.​

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She is an experienced executive leader with over fifteen years leadership, talent management, and organisational development experience, holding both internal positions and consulting to local and international organisations. ​

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Alissa has a wealth of experience in creating and driving high performance cultures and is spearheading organisational transformation at JCDecaux. Previously she was the Global Head of Talent & Culture at international mining conglomerate Sibelco, where she worked for almost seven years. She has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers, CompAssess Psychologists and as an Organisational Psychologist with Macquarie Group.​

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Alissa holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology from Macquarie University. ​

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David Bellas

Director, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn

David Bellas is a Director for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions business for Australia and New Zealand. David and his team are responsible for helping organisation the way they plan, hire, and develop talent. This is possible through the disruptive technology and unique data and insights from LinkedIn’s 875+ million members and 57 million companies.

He is passionate about investing in people, everything sales, turning business visions into reality and working with customers to meet their business objectives.

Over the past 10 years at LinkedIn, David has had the opportunity to lead the growth and distribution efforts across all sectors at LinkedIn. When LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015, an online learning company, David was appointed as Head of Learning for Australia and New Zealand and helped oversee the successful transition to LinkedIn Learning.

Over the past several years David has been recognised with awards such as Diversity and Inclusion Manager of the Year and LinkedIn Manager of the Year and has a reputation for inspiring, coaching and developing talent.

Olivia Boyle

Clinical Psychologist & Senior Manager Clinical Governance
TELUS Health

Olivia Boyle is the Senior Manager, Clinical Governance for APAC for TELUS Health. Olivia oversees the clinical excellence for the APAC region and is responsible for clinical matters related to compliance, process, policy, and clinical quality. She is a Clinical Psychologist with two Master’s degrees in psychology and has worked directly with clients for almost 10 years.

Garth Byrne

Head of Learning and Development
Employment Hero

Garth holds over 20 years experience in Learning & Development, Talent Management, and Organisational Development with large multi-national organisations, responsible for learning strategy, stakeholder management, executive coaching, mentoring, performance management and cultural change initiatives

Brianna Cattanach

National Manager Mental Health Strategy and Delivery
Allianz Australia

Brianna is the National Manager of Mental Health Strategy and Delivery at Allianz, sitting across workers’ compensation, CTP, NDIS and other personal injury lines. She brings specialty to this space as a registered Senior Occupational Therapist with additional tertiary psychology qualifications, specialising in behavioural neuroscience.

Brianna’s career commenced working in direct mental health service provision before transitioning to occupational rehabilitation focusing on complex psychological injuries and claims management. As her passion for injury prevention grew, Brianna took on consultancy-based roles exposing her to a wide range of industries and challenges where she led teams and projects across organisational development, people management and leadership, peer support and psychosocial safety.

In her current senior leadership role at Allianz, Brianna is responsible for shaping and supporting internal capability, client value proposition and claims and rehabilitation management strategies for mental injuries and psychosocial risks. Brianna’s role focuses on driving the programs and initiatives that lead to safer workplaces, better return to work and recovery outcomes and innovative practices across the personal injury industry.

In addition to her work with Allianz, Brianna is an active advocate for the role of Occupational Therapists in the mental health and occupational rehabilitation space and supports the profession through her involvement as a key committee member and special interest group conveyor with OT Australia and by providing sessional academic work and lecturing to Swinburne and La Trobe University, where she is also on the Academic Advisory Committee. Brianna is also an expert advisory board member to SuperFriend one of Australia’s leading workplace mental health research and intervention agencies.

Bernadette Cavanagh

Chief People Officer
NSW Land Registry Services

Bernadette (Bernie) has more than 30 years’ experience across a number of industries including education, forestry, infrastructure, engineering and local government and has worked across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. She has held executive roles covering HR, Safety, Audit, Risk, ESG and Future Workplace. Bernadette has a keen interest in change management, leadership and talent and in 2023 Bernadette was awarded the Australian HR Director of The Year Award at the HRD Australian HR Awards and named on the HRD Hot list.

Dr. Philip Gibbs

Director
AESP GIBBS

Dr. Philip Gibbs is a distinguished leader in Digital, Data, and Analytics with over two decades of expertise in the Finance, Pharmaceuticals, and Healthcare sectors. Holding a Ph.D. and status as a Chartered Psychologist, Dr. Gibbs is renowned for his innovative approaches in people data and analytics. He excels in transforming complex challenges into groundbreaking solutions, significantly impacting various industries. His career showcases profound leadership in driving strategic objectives and nurturing high-performance cultures. Dr. Gibbs’s technical proficiency covers a broad spectrum of tools including AWS, Databricks, Azure, SPSS, R, and PowerBI. Renowned for his role in strategic transformation, he has reshaped data analytics strategies, elevating organizational performance and team dynamics. A thought leader and published author, Dr. Gibbs has contributed to prestigious awards and publications, reflecting his deep commitment to the field. His roles at National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, GSK, HCA international and American Express underscore his transformative impact in these organizations. Dr. Gibbs holds a Ph.D. in Management from Lancaster University, an MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of Nottingham, and a BA in Organisational Studies & Psychology from Lancaster University. His insights at the intersection of digital technology, data analytics, and psychology offer profound guidance on leveraging data, analytics and AI to drive digital transformation for organizational success and a healthy, high-performing workforce. 

Tania Hector

HR Business Partner
Nestlé Australia

Tania is a seasoned HR professional with a knack for building winning teams across continents and cultures. (Think strategic people practices meets a passport full of
stamps!)

Her journey began as a social worker in South Africa, where she honed her people skills. From there, her HR career took her on a delicious world tour – picking up not just best practices, but some interesting food habits along the way! (We won’t pry into the durian stories just yet…)

Currently, Tania is the HR Business Partner at Nestlé Oceania, bringing her global perspective and deep expertise to the team. Previously, she was the Global Head of Learning & Development at NESTLÉ Group, crafting talent development programs fit for a global giant. Her resume also includes HR Director for NESTLÉ East and Southern Africa (23 countries!), Head of Talent in UK and Ireland, and Head of HR Services in Malaysia/Singapore.

Educationally, Tania’s a triple threat: BA Hons. in Social Work, MA in Social Work, and an MA in Labour Law and HR.

In her spare time, she loves getting spoilt by her husband and son – and is known to smother dogs with love and treats!

David Johansson

Director, Strategy, Organisational Development & Analytics
AMP

Delivery focused executive leader and management consultant. Holds a Master of Business Administration. Specialist in strategy and business performance. Has 25 years’ experience in leadership, 15 in transformation, 12 in financial services. Is passionate about the future of work, and shaping inclusive, high performing working communities that ensure people operate at their full potential.

David is currently Director Strategy, Performance & Reporting, AMP, working across company strategy, reputation, performance improvement and culture transformation objectives.

Lauren Johnson

Chief People & Culture Officer
Australian Payments Network

Lauren is the Chief People & Culture Officer at Australian Payments Network, a role she has held for the past six years. Lauren’s role prioritises developing and executing people focussed solutions in support of AusPayNet’s strategy. She has spent the last 15 years in Executive Human Resources, partnering with leaders to shape the people agenda.

When she is not solving complex people issues, Lauren is passionate about education. She holds a Master of Commerce, majoring in Human Resources & Industrial Relations, and has recently graduated from Macquarie University with her Bachelor of Medical Science, majoring in Neuroscience and Advanced Human Biology.

Shannon Karaka

Country Leader, A/NZ
Deel

Shannon Karaka is the Country Leader and Head of Expansion for Australia and New Zealand at Deel. Deel makes it easier for businesses to hire anyone, anywhere in the world. Founded in 2019, Deel’s technology offers payroll, HR, compliance, and benefits needed to hire and manage a global team.  
 
In his role, Shannon helps ANZ businesses use global hiring to address chronic talent shortages, to quicker expand into international markets and to retain key staff that want or need to move away from Australia and New Zealand, ensuring that key talent continues to work effectively for local companies. 
 
Before joining Deel, Shannon worked in business development roles for WeWork, Salesforce and Google, witnessing first hand the power of platform and Saas based companies to achieve business transformation.   
 
As a side hustle, Shannon was the founder of Get Happy Co, a happy clothing brand advocating for mental health. Shannon is also an investor in healthcare startup Smart Doctor, a virtual care platform in Latin America that connects doctors with patients who do not have health coverage or have limited access to medical services.  
 
Shannon is a life-long advocate for medical and mental health care for all, and promotes flexibility and a healthy work-life balance as way to maintain a positive mindset. 

Anwar Khalil

CEO
Martian Logic HRIS

Anwar Khalil started his journey as a scientific programmer working in the exploration-geophysics industry in WA and moved into business applications where he worked at IBM and many other companies as a software engineer.  In 2003 Anwar founded Martian Logic as a job-posting platform, which then developed into a full-fledged ATS and 10 years later in 2021 the Martian HRIS was born.  Anwar is very passionate about balanced food that brings the best of plant-based food and ethically-sourced meat – this passion comes from his personal belief that the majority of all health problems are related to nutrient deficiencies and therefore can be solved by simply giving the body the raw material it needs to do its job (Gary Brecka 2023).

Thomas Liberty

HR Manager
Fabrum

Thomas started his HR career in recruitment, before moving to a high-growth software company and working across the HR practice from business partnering through to analytics. He has recently moved to another start-up environment at Fabrum, building the foundations of HR to enable the rapid growth of their green hydrogen solutions.

Gemma Mulready

General Manager, People & Culture
Sympli

Gemma brings nearly two decades of expertise in sales, service, operations, and Human Resources. Specialising in driving startups and scaling businesses, specifically in financial services and private equity, Gemma’s HR approach aligns innovation with organisational goals. Her pivotal role in a transformative 18-month people and culture shift led to wealth management firm Centric Wealth’s $130 million sale to FINDEX. At life insurer Integrity Life, as their inaugural employee, she rapidly expanded the workforce, getting them into the market in 9 months, and earning various employer and industry accolades, including the esteemed Good Design Award. As the General Manager for People and Culture at Sympli, Gemma has also secured the Great Place to Work certification for two consecutive years, underscoring her unwavering commitment to excellence and innovation. Her team’s recognition as the HR Team of the Year in 2023 further exemplifies her dedication to driving excellence and innovation within the field. 

Sarah Novelli

Executive Director, People & Culture – APAC
BGIS

Sarah Novelli is the Executive Director, People & Culture at BGIS. Having worked in HR leadership roles for over 10 years, Sarah is particularly passionate about developing and executing People Strategies which align with and achieve business goals. Sarah holds a Master of Legal and Ethics, specialising in Industrial Relations and a Bachelor of Business majoring in Human Resources Management. With a strong interest around people analytics and benchmarking, Sarah provides counsel to all levels of leadership around retention, strategic talent management and future capability. Sarah also holds a passion for Diversity & Inclusion, working as an advocate for D&I across various areas.

Leyla Parbery

Head of Benefits and Wellbeing APAC
Datadog

Leyla Parbery is an accomplished professional with over a decade of experience in human resources, benefits, and wellbeing management across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. In her role as the Head of Benefits and Wellbeing at Datadog APJ, Leyla has been a key driver in the development and implementation of comprehensive benefits and wellbeing strategies. Her career has encompassed significant roles at Deutsche Bank, where she successfully introduced and managed various benefits programs, along with spearheading vital mental health and wellbeing initiatives. Holding a Master’s in Human Resource Management and a Bachelor’s in Business Studies, she also carries certification in mental health first aid. Leyla’s unwavering commitment lies in cultivating a thriving workplace culture that places employee wellness and growth as its central focus.

Megan Reed

Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)
oVice

Megan Reed is a Global HR Executive with over 25 years of international, corporate experience. But it is her almost 20 years of experience in leading global, virtual teams which affords her a unique and contemporary perspective for HR Excellence and the modern people agenda.

Being deeply curious, powered by sunshine and a great cup of coffee, Megan has worked in Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom, France, Turkey, USA, India and the Middle East, enhancing her inclusive, multicultural and purposeful approach to leadership. She has led HR functions for tech giant IBM, built global operating models for tech and finance sector startups, driven engagement in HR Business Partnering in the higher education sector and now in her current role as the Chief Human Resources Officer of oVice Inc, she is spearheading the creation of a scalable talent management infrastructure that enables a powerful remote-first employee experience. Megan leads her global HR function, from her home office on the Gold Coast.

Known for having a growth mindset “before it was even cool”, Megan is inspired by the science of neuro-leadership and champions this agenda as she facilitates the strategic alignment of the people and culture priorities with business objectives. Megan is a certified Executive Coach, as well as a practitioner and early adopter of Design Thinking and Agile methodologies. She uses this combination to build capability, stir innovation and foster engagement across the organisations she leads – to implement change while never losing sight of the importance of delighting stakeholders, nor the impact of the user experience.

In recognition of her achievements, Megan proudly won the QUT St. George Bank Fostering Executive Women International Scholarship in 2015, earning her a coveted spot at the Women’s Leadership Forum at Harvard Business School, and still today commits to over 300 hours of self-driven professional development every year. When not busy revolutionising the remote HR and leadership landscape, Megan enjoys spending her free time exploring and embracing this wide world with her husband and two daughters (coffee in hand, of course).

Lisa Schilling

former Project Director, International Recruitment Program
Department of Health, Victoria

Lisa Schilling is a highly experienced workforce planning and recruitment strategy and engagement professional, specialising in the development and management of international and domestic workforce programs aimed at building and sustaining a capable health and human services workforce. Lisa was previously the Project Director, International Recruitment Strategy at the Department of Health. This involved leading the development, implementation and monitoring of an International Recruitment Program (the Program) that incentivised and supported the recruitment of skilled international healthcare workers by Victorian health services. The program successfully recruited over 2000 healthcare workers and Lisa and team were recently awarded the Best Recruitment Campaign category at Australian HR Awards.

Lisa also managed the Recruitment, Strategy and Engagement Unit at the Department of Health and Human Services developing, implementing, monitoring, and review many
large scale, workforce strategies and programs to address critical workforce needs. This involved building and leveraging relationships with overseas and domestic educational institutions, councils and accreditation bodies to create and establish a solid pipeline of frontline workers into metropolitan, regional and remote areas. Negotiating and establishing contractual arrangements with key suppliers including recruitment agencies and media and communication agencies to support workforce initiatives was critical to this role.

Andrea Vienet

People Experience Partner
Carman’s Kitchen

Andrea Vienet is an experienced HR professional with extensive experience in learning, organizational development, and operational HR across diverse industries. She is currently the People Experience Partner at Carman’s with a broad remit on building capability and enhancing the people experience. Prior to this, she led the learning and organisational development team at Epworth, with a significant portion of this through one of the most challenging periods in healthcare. She has built a reputation for implementing pragmatic, impactful programs aligned with business strategies. With prior roles at Sportsbet, Asciano, and Sensis, Andrea has demonstrated her ability to adapt and deliver results.

Rian Thompson

Director Workforce Insights and Transformation
NSW Health

Rian is an experienced Analytics Leader, with qualifications in Finance and Economics he brings nearly 2 decades of expertise in Analytics from diverse sectors to solve and simplify complex problems. Rian is a versatile professional who has orchestrated transformative initiatives, elevating data teams from traditional reporting functions to into delivering actionable insights and incisive predictive modelling. Proficient in bridging the public and private spheres, Rian has spearheaded workforce strategy and policy for NSW Education leveraging insights to improve staff attraction and retention and build attractive pipelines to secure the future workforce. His passions are leveraging data into powerful insights for positive change and empowering people with the knowledge and tools to decentralise analytics to maximise their impact.

Martha Travis

Founder and Director
Martha Travis People Innovators

Martha is a pragmatic, commercially savvy and professional Human Resources Consultant. She has an array of operational and strategic experience in a range of environments, with employee groups from 1 to 5,500.

Technology has been the cornerstone of Martha’s HR practice, and she has implemented and utilised technology in several businesses across her career. Martha and her team work hard to maintain the currency of their knowledge and skills in the application and use of technology within the workplace and how this may impact organisations and their people both positively and negatively.

Since founding her HR consultancy in 2019, Martha Travis People Innovators have assisted more than 40 organisations implement, optimise and enhance their HR technology to support them to deliver both transactional and strategic HR objectives.

Prior to being a Human Resources Consultant, Martha worked as General Manager People and Culture, within contract-based businesses.

​​Martha’s passion is for people; and she believes that in every organisation, it is the people who are the key to achieving strategic business outcomes and ensuring long-term sustainability. Martha is always seeking new ways to engage people and help them work to their potential and has a proven track record in using technology to help leverage those outcomes.

Andrea Vienet

People Experience Partner
Carman’s Kitchen

Andrea Vienet is an experienced HR professional with extensive experience in learning, organizational development, and operational HR across diverse industries. She is currently the People Experience Partner at Carman’s with a broad remit on building capability and enhancing the people experience. Prior to this, she led the learning and organisational development team at Epworth, with a significant portion of this through one of the most challenging periods in healthcare. She has built a reputation for implementing pragmatic, impactful programs aligned with business strategies. With prior roles at Sportsbet, Asciano, and Sensis, Andrea has demonstrated her ability to adapt and deliver results.

Katherine Zangari

Head of Culture, Leadership & Learning
Findex

An experienced organisational development leader who enables people to lean into their strengths, grow their skills and achieve their full potential of becoming great leaders and contributors. Katherine has the ability to make clear, tangible connections between business strategy and practical day to day imperatives. She is comfortable traversing the full range from strategy development through to execution, and follow up embedding support with her stakeholders.

Demonstrating strong relationship management, teamwork and consulting skills, she is able to deliver outcomes for leaders and their teams which achieve personal growth, team performance and business success. She is self-motivated, disciplined and has a strong reputation for delivering for her client groups.

Kiah Grafton

Chief People Officer
IMDEX

Kiah is Chief People Officer at IMDEX, a fast-growing global mining-technology company with its headquarters in Perth, Western Australia, but offices in 20 countries and operations in every major mining jurisdiction in the world.

Before being appointed CPO in 2021, Kiah was IMDEX’s Executive General Manager of Human Resources, responsible for fundamentally transforming the People & Culture strategy, capability, and role within the business.

She contributes to IMDEX’s business success through her growing roles in strategy, organisational capability, ESG and communications.

Kiah has multi-sector experience, having held leadership roles in national and global organisations in the resources, banking, consulting, and not-for-profit sectors.

She is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and routinely advises IMDEX’S board and potential investors.

Deborah Howcroft

Vice President Organisation Development and Corporate People Team
Bluescope

Deb Howcroft is a senior business executive with experience in both the Australian and international markets. Deb has successfully worked in organisations that are complex and have required strong leadership and influence to achieve desired outcomes. Deb’s primary focus is on the management of change and development of people within businesses to achieve strategic objectives.

With a corporate background Deb currently holds the role of Vice President Global Organisational Development and Corporate Advisory for BlueScope Steel Limited. Prior to this Deb held the role of Executive General Manager Group Organisational Development for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (2014-2018). Deb also worked internationally and locally for the Vodafone Group as Global Director of Organisational Capability for Vodafone Group Limited (2005 – 2008) and Director, People and Brand, Australia for a period of 5 years.

Deb has also worked for many years in a consulting capacity, some of her clients included Origin Energy, NBNCo, Coles Group, Telstra, CBA and NRMA. Working with these clients has ranged from HR strategy, alignment of people practices with organisational strategy, facilitation of groups to achieve outcomes; and coaching individuals to successfully influence the organisation to appropriate agendas.

Throughout her career Deb has led business turnarounds, been involved in start ups and has worked within corporate centers to affect the changes required to align businesses with customer needs. Deb’s key skills are in providing clarity to strategic thinking and being able to break this down into effective operational plans that achieve results. This combined with her commercial and customer understanding, and ability to identify and manage risk, enable her to provide leadership needed both directly, and indirectly, to help businesses and individuals define, and successfully implement change.

Bec Donnelly

VP, People
SiteMinder

Bec Donnelly is a passionate HR leader with a love for tech and helping teams scale for success. With extensive experience across the full HR spectrum, Bec believes deeply in people-driven business strategies and creating high performance teams. Since joining SiteMinder in 2019, she has partnered with the company’s executive team as a trusted advisor and is currently acting Chief People Officer, holding the fort for the second time as the company’s existing CPO enjoys the second addition to their family. She has also overseen the company’s HR operations, talent acquisition and organisational development during periods of high growth; and in 2021 led the global team’s readiness journey to one of the most successful IPOs that year. Bec has supported the opening of four new international offices during her time and, most recently, led the in-sourcing of the company’s fast-growing team in Manila.

Before joining SiteMinder, Bec was the HR Manager for Commonwealth Bank’s Digital area and, prior to that, she helped grow the Organisational Development capability at ASIC where she launched the Commission’s EVP and first annual Women in Leadership Award and Indigenous cadet program.

Bec has over 15 years experience in HR and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Adult Education, with a major in Human Resource Development, from the University of Technology Sydney.

Sarah Novelli

Executive Director, People & Culture - APAC
BGIS

Sarah Novelli is the Executive Director, People & Culture at BGIS. Having worked in HR leadership roles for over 10 years, Sarah is particularly passionate about developing and executing People Strategies which align with and achieve business goals. Sarah holds a Master of Legal and Ethics, specialising in Industrial Relations and a Bachelor of Business majoring in Human Resources Management. With a strong interest around people analytics and benchmarking, Sarah provides counsel to all levels of leadership around retention, strategic talent management and future capability. Sarah also holds a passion for Diversity & Inclusion, working as an advocate for D&I across various areas.

Jodi Paton

Chief People Officer
HOYTS Group

Jodi joined The HOYTS Group in 2013 in a newly formed role heading up the People, Performance and Culture function. She is a key member of the Executive Leadership Team with a primary focus on partnering with senior leaders and key business stakeholders in building organisational capability and employee engagement to foster a learning culture in a high-performance environment. Her remit includes HR, Recruitment, Learning, Payroll, Health, Well-being & Safety and ESG. Jodi has been invited to speak at various conferences and participate on panels, and her team has been awarded the AHRI Award for Technology.

Jodi holds a Master of Organisational Development and Training, a Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology (Sport), a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is on the Employer Leadership Group for Workplace Giving Australia. She is also accredited in LSI 360, 360 Profiler Report Interpretation, DiSC and McQuaig.

Prior to joining The HOYTS Group, Jodi held positions in Learning & Development and HR for Jones Lang LaSalle and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).

Laura Applebee-Jones

Partner and Co-Founder
Fifth Frame

Laura has spent 16 years studying human behaviour and consulting across performance improvement, operations and people issues. Laura holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a master’s degree in Coaching Psychology and accreditations in a number of leadership and organisational culture assessment tools.   

Laura’s primary focus and experience is in leadership assessment, development and coaching; large group facilitation; culture and values assessment and organisational behaviour change.   

Whilst working across a wide range of industries including healthcare, transport, retail, energy, utilities and entertainment, 

With a passion for learning and education, Laura holds positions on the Management Boards of both a community run not-for-profit Preschool and her local OOSC/ Vacation Care Centre. 

Karlie Cremin

Managing Director
DLPA

Karlie has worked extensively with businesses large and small to formulate and implement strategy, and equip leaders with the ability to lead effectively for 20 years. Karlie has assisted businesses in re-designing processes and procedures, implementing best practice and re-designing entire business models. These efforts are supported through effective training and development activity to ensure the workforce is equipped to deliver the strategy, whilst ensuring an optimal employee experience.

Karlie has predominantly worked in the construction sector, as well as a suite of other industries from finance to car rental. Through her efforts as a consultant, Karlie has supported businesses as they have gone from $10 million turnover to $50 million. Karlie’s academic qualifications have groundings in commerce, law with a focus on employment law, and business administration and finance.

Gillian Davie

Chief People Officer
Bravura

An ASX C-suite executive and Non-Executive Director spanning over a 25-year career.
Gillian holds a rare combination of experience in rapid growth businesses, turnarounds, transformation, crisis management, acquisition (acquiring and being acquired), and how to successfully lead teams through these events.

This experience was gained in domestic and international businesses in the Financial Services, Technology and FMCG / Retail sectors.

She is also an experienced Board member, Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Gillian is passionate about the role HR plays in helping people (and business) to see what is possible and the change required to achieve that.

Kama Ghosn

Chief People Officer
NobleOak

Kama has over 20 years’ experience working in start-up, M&A/ transactional and change oriented environments with diverse experience across a range of industries and most of her career spent in ASX listed organisations with a heavy focus on reward, governance, data and cultural change.

Luis Izzo

Managing Director
Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors

Luis oversees ABLA’s Sydney and Melbourne Workplace Relations teams and has over 15 years’ experience practicing as a specialist employment and industrial relations lawyer.

Acting only for employers or employer associations, he is well regarded in the industry for providing comprehensive and practical legal services for complex matters. This has included the conduct of investigations involving numerous allegations from multiple complainants; handing of workforce-wide underpayment claims; a judicial review application before the Full Court of the Federal Court; and being a lead employer advocate in test case proceedings relating to annual leave provisions and penalty rate provisions in over 100 modern awards.

In the public sector, Luis has previously been the principal legal advisor on department-wide enterprise agreement negotiations for the AFP and ATO.

Luis is regularly recognised by peers and clients as an expert in this field and was named a leading practitioner in employment law for the 2023 Doyles’ Guide.

Sarah McInerney

General Manager, People & Culture
Origin Energy

After beginning her career in the Human Resources industry over twenty years ago in London, Sarah worked across a range of recruitment, business partnering and consulting roles before moving back to Sydney in 2010. Since joining, Sarah has played a pivotal role in shaping Origin Energy’s People & Culture strategy. Her comprehensive understanding of the industry and dedication to employee development have been instrumental in her contributions. As Origin’s General Manager of People & Culture she now leads the focus for organisational development, remuneration, benefits, IR/ER, culture, change, diversity and inclusion strategies.

Ruth Muller

Chief R&D Officer
Suntory Oceania

Ruth Muller, Chief R&D Officer and Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Suntory Oceania, boasts 24 years of FMCG experience. She champions consumer-centric product development and future-focused strategies. Her leadership has steered initiatives like the introduction of rPET packaging, launch of V Refresh, and introduction of Suntory Boss Coffee into the Oceania market.
Passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, Ruth has played a key role in building the strategy to ensure what is being done is meaningful and impactful. This includes sharing learnings from her lived experience with neurodivergence, and how that has helped shaped her as a leader.

Prabha Nandagopal

Founder
Elevate Consulting Partners

Prabha is a distinguished human rights and discrimination lawyer with over 18 years of experience, specialising in workplace culture reform, and the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. As the founder of Elevate Consulting Partners, she is dedicated to driving positive social change through intersectional approaches.

Prabha’s notable roles include senior positions at the Australian Human Rights Commission and leading the national inquiries into immigration detention and children in detention. Her innovative work on the Independent Commonwealth Parliamentary Review, the National Music Industry Review and the cultural review of EY Oceania underscores her expertise in addressing workplace sexual harassment and discrimination. 

Recognised for her contribution to implementing a positive duty to eliminate sexual harassment, Prabha was named a woman to watch in leadership by Women’s Agenda in 2024. Holding degrees in Law and Psychology from the University of Adelaide, Prabha’s career is marked by her commitment to challenging systemic issues and fostering inclusivity. 

Jason Portelli

Founder & Managing Consultant
Tech Pathfinder

Jason is a speaker, Podcast host, and technology evangelist who has worked in the HR tech world for over a decade.

With hands-on experience across Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, and the UK, he has built and led teams across many aspects of the HR tech space, and his people-centric approach allows him to guide and motivate them to great outcomes for his team and clients. His experience has helped him play an integral part in the growth of tech businesses from start-up to ASX listing and beyond.

Jason is the founder of Tech Pathfinder, a consulting firm helping guide clients to better outcomes from their people software. An avid user of AI technology, he takes a risk-based, people focused approach to using AI within a workplace setting.

Jodi Sampson

Chief People Officer
Nanosonics

Jodi is the first Chief People & Culture Officer to be appointed for Nanosonics, an Australian based global Company with the vision of Infection Prevention For Life through transforming infection prevention practises and introducing innovative technologies that deliver improved standards of care.  During her time in the role, Jodi has developed and led people strategies to enable the transformation and growth of the global workforce and has a passion for building leadership capability and creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone experiences a sense of belonging.

Aimee Sherer

Learning Capability Manager
Suntory Oceania

Aimee Sherer, Suntory’s Learning and Capability Manager, drives global development programs to unlock individual talent potential. Specialising in leadership, she prioritises advancing female leaders and leveraging personal strengths for business success. With diverse experience from roles in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK, Aimee integrates insights from these markets to help unleash everyone’s greatness through identify their unique talents.
As a speaker, facilitator, mentor and coach she has a reputation for being supportive yet direct when it comes to calling leaders and teams on behaviours that are limiting their performance or getting in their way.

Elise Ward

Chief People Officer
Prospa

Elise is currently the Chief People Officer at Prospa – a growing FinTech with a purpose to unleash the potential of every small business. In her role, she has responsibility for the design and delivery of our people strategy. A passionate strengths coach, Elise has more than 15 years’ experience in delivering progressive people and culture strategies across start-ups and multinational organisations. Prior to joining Prospa, Elise led the People & Culture team for Canadian-based technology company Elastic Path Software and has held senior HR roles at Samsung and Tabcorp.

Elise has a Bachelor of HR Management from Macquarie University, a Graduate Certificate in Change Management from AGSM at UNSW, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Holly Barnes

Chief People Officer
Humanforce

Holly, a seasoned HR leader with over 15 years’ experience brings a wealth of experience across all facets of people and culture. Previously holding executive roles within the Technology and Human Capital Management sectors, Holly is dedicated to reshaping conventional people management approaches. Passionate about redefining traditional people management, Holly focuses on values, the employee value proposition, and leadership to introduce innovative approaches while driving business results.

Adam Bowden

Head of Workvivo, APJ
Workvivo

A professional focused on bringing employee experience to the forefront of businesses across ANZ. Adam has over 20 years+ experience and 8 years in Employee Engagement & HR Software.

Melo Calarco

Mindfulness and High Performance Coach

As a certified mindfulness and performance coach, Melo has the unique ability to bring the best out of the people, and the companies, he works with. With over 25 years experience, his results-based work is grounded in neuroscience, mindfulness, human behaviour, leadership training and other unique tools to help his clients find self-awareness, clarity, focus and ultimately success.  

Melo learned to manage highly challenging and stressful situations, build mental endurance and rise above adversity from his life lessons on the road where he cycled, trekked and travelled over 30,000km’s around the planet on his mountain bike. He traversed Africa, Asia, India, Nepal, Europe and North America, along the way he had to overcome many obstacles and demanding encounters, including near-death experiences.  

He now shares that deep experience working with many global Fortune 500 companies, CEO’s, managers and directors, and corporate executives, as well as sporting professionals, actors, entrepreneurs, thought leaders and individuals that want to be the absolute best at their craft. Recently, Melo has had the unique opportunity to coach an Olympic athlete to reach their life-long goals.  

During the pandemic Melo has supported over 75,000 people globally in his seminars and coaching programs.  

His work has been described as ‘truly transformational’! 

Jessica Cody

Director
Inner Rhythm

Jessica founded Inner Rhythm with a desire to share the herd wisdom of horses with collective cultures to create cohesive, psychologically safe environments for people to thrive in.  

With over 15 years in the Education industry, to completing her Master’s degree with Honours in Equine Assisted Therapy in Germany, a public speaker and facilitator, Jess utilises Equine Assisted Coaching, working on improving cultures across a diverse range of sectors including schools, nursing homes, sporting teams and the corporate space. 

Jessica advocates for the belief that to truly thrive we need to embrace our humanity, emphasising the importance of being, rather than merely doing, to truly embody the essence of human connection in any environment. 

“Jessica is a highly intuitive leader whose inner confidence has always had her challenging the status quo and leading life on her terms.” – Augusti Vera, Europe Executive Coach 

Eli Chuah

Solutions Consultant
Remote

Eli brings over seven years of diverse experience in the tech industry, excelling in technical product management and solutions consulting roles. With a background in e-commerce, digital banking, and HR tech, Eli has honed her skills in navigating complex business and HR landscapes while leveraging technology to drive innovative solutions. Join her session to explore the intersection of technology and HR, and discover actionable insights to hire talent remotely.

Alex Gelman

Partner
Strategy Assist

Alex Gelman is a serial entrepreneur and corporate technology adviser with a passion for social impact.  He inter-twines technology advisory with innovation, governance and organisational change to achieve business outcomes.

In his role as Strategic Technology Advisor at Strategy Assist, Alex advises corporate and social impact enterprises on technology strategy, technology architecture, digital transformation and practical innovation. He operates at a senior level, advising numerous clients in the Health and Ageing, Professional Services, Property, Not for Profit and Government sectors.

Alex has assisted numerous clients strategically define their HCM requirements and select the right systems, then proceeding to oversee the implementation to achieve agreed outcomes.

Alex is regularly called upon to speak on business technology, innovation, and emerging technologies. Using insights from his work, he published Great Choice!, a self-help guide for organisations to strategically purchase technology. In supplementing his corporate and government clientele, Alex enjoys helping Social Impact organisations optimise their business to do more good.

Alex also engages with boards either as a Non-Executive Director or through advisory boards.

Ray Good

CEO & Founder
The Good Place

As the founder of The Good Place, Ray is on a mission to create a more mindful world and help fight the global mental health crisis. Ray teaches mental fitness, high performance and mindfulness grounded in neuroscience and positive psychology to help individuals, teams and organisations fight stress, think better and perform at their peak.

Many of Australia’s biggest organisations have relied on Ray’s expertise, including Tourism Australia, the Victorian & A.C.T Governments, RACV, Mercy Health, Macquarie Bank, Torrens University, Tennis Australia, and Nova Entertainment, to name a few.  

Ben Hainsworth

Head of Talogy Australia
Talogy

Ben heads the Australian Talogy business, specialising in psychometric assessments, executive coaching, leadership development, and career transition/outplacement. With over 20 years of experience, he has consistently achieved notable results in organisational psychology across various industries. 

Ally Jones

Senior Global Expansion Manager
Multiplier

Ally Jones, a seasoned professional in global expansion strategies, currently serves as the driving force behind global expansion at Multiplier. With a rich background encompassing a decade of experience in Singapore, she returned to her roots in Sydney in October 2023.

Her mission: to facilitate international businesses in leveraging Australia’s vast talent pool while empowering local enterprises to thrive in a borderless, interconnected world.

As a strategic leader, Ally’s vision is not just about bridging geographical divides but fostering inclusive work environments that transcend boundaries, enabling companies to tap into global talent seamlessly.

At Multiplier, a pioneering global HR operations platform that facilitates hiring, onboarding, and managing a global workforce in over 160 countries, Ally spearheads initiatives that enable businesses to expand more easily, rapidly, and efficiently than ever before.

Her dedication lies in dismantling barriers to international expansion and empowering organizations to navigate the complexities of global talent acquisition with ease.

With Ally at the helm, Multiplier continues to revolutionize the way businesses operate in an increasingly interconnected global landscape, setting new standards for cross-border collaboration and growth.

Dr Lucas Karayannis

Health Consultant

Lucas has been a Chiropractor for over 38 years, graduating with a double degree in 1986. He initially worked for 2 Chiropractors before starting his own practice in Mascot in 1988 and still there to this day. Lucas has had extensive mentoring and training in Gonstead Chiropractic technique to the point where he is now able to teach the technique worldwide.

He became involved with corporate health care in the early 90’s mainly dealing with manual handling type training. This later became more solution solving and he began caring for employee’s onsite. His work is very much about being pro-active with each individual’s health before any chance of injuries occurring. The onsite work today is also very much about caring for the sedentary workforce.

Over the years Lucas has worked very closely with companies such as Qantas Freight, Pilkington Glass, National Cables, Kimberley Clarke, Grocon Constructions, TNT, as well as A.H Beard. His work at these companies has been highly effective.

He is also married to a Chiropractor, Melissa, and has also had the pleasure of seeing one of his daughters graduate as a Chiropractor.

Sonya Law

National Human Resources Manager
Carrier Australia

Sonya Law is National Human Resources Manager for Carrier Australia.

She received her Human Resources Degree from Deakin University and completed her Teaching Degree with Monash University and recently obtained her MBA, providing opportunities to work and study abroad in Europe and Asia.  Now with 30 years real world practical Human Resources Management and leadership experience.

Her passion is working with businesses who are aligned with her values, people, planet and profit and pursuit of the circular economy. She has created positive, inclusive workplace cultures in Telecommunications, Government, Pharmaceutical, Water Utilities, FMCG and more recently Mining and Construction for Sullair (Hitachi Group Company) where she achieved an innovation award in 2020 for solving society’s problems for social connectedness during the Pandemic.

Sonya has a passion for health and wellbeing and appears on Runnez App as their resident nutritionist and runner. Sonya competes and coaches actively in the 2XU Triathlon Series and Marathon Running for over 20 years – Completing New York, Berlin, Melbourne Marathon and in 2023 the next on the list is Chicago Marathon!

A self-proclaimed optimist and she aspires to help people tap into their full potential at work and live their best lives. Sonya is an active member of her community in advocating for Men’s Mental Health and completed her Mental Health First Aid Certificate with Remedy First Aid.

Sonya understands the juggle of parenting and careers in leadership and being in all cases the only woman in the boardroom.  Now her children are young adults in their 20’s and as a step parent understands different family dynamics.

Originally from New Zealand she had a great start in life, experiencing an early childhood curriculum that acknowledged and celebrated its indigenous culture; recognising inclusivity and diversity.

Sonya has been chairing the HR summit for the third year and hopes that you find it engaging and a great learning & sharing experience!

Steve Mann

Digital Communications and Strategy Specialist

Steve Mann is a seasoned Corporate Affairs leader who has led Internal Comms, External Comms, Government Relations, Sustainability and Community functions across Australia and internationally. A former political advisor, Steve has worked with some of the worlds biggest brands and has devised and implemented digital internal communication and engagement strategies and solutions for large and complex businesses with workforces between 50,000 and 100,000. Most recently, Steve spent the past five and a half years as Head of Corporate Affairs for Kmart Group, leading the function for the Kmart and Target businesses.

James McIlvena

Managing Director ANZ + SG
LHH

James is the MD of LHH Australia and New Zealand and the Executive Sponsor of LHH partnerships with large customers. James is passionate about helping build better careers, better leaders and better businesses. His strength is in developing solutions to complex problems and addressing these through mobilising and managing talented people. He is responsible for connecting local businesses with the best of globally available LHH solutions helping individuals and organisations reveal and harness their talent and providing tools to support a renewable workforce.

Prior to LLH, he gained extensive experience of in-house recruitment and RPO models across a range of industries and ASX100 companies. James has a degree in Psychology/ Psychophysiology and a Post Graduate qualification in Human Resources and Industrial Relations.

Gavin Nelson

Productivity Ninja

Gavin Nelson is a learning and development specialist, professional facilitator and a certified Productivity Ninja practitioner.

In 2020 Gavin formed the microlearning agency Microgo to help organisations create and implement highly engaging training programs easily, quickly, and conveniently via any platform including mobile phones.

Having spent many years of working life leading L&D initiatives in the corporate world,Gavin has first-hand knowledge and experience to understand today’s fast-paced learning environment. Gavin’s passionate about helping people – by understanding what motivates them, their wants, and their needs.

He has experience in multinational, large and small organisations as well as leading sporting organisations. This provides a broad perspective when discussing learning and development, instructional design, stakeholder management and project requirements.

Gavin’s style has been described as “engages well with everyone”, “a great facilitator”, and “super-helpful”. As a presenter and certified facilitator, Gavin receives highly positive participant feedback. Gavin’s passions are productivity, micro learning, his family, and his interests include running as well as kayaking and cycling far and wide.

Birthe Nohrden

CEO & Founder
TeamTalks

Birthe Nohrden is a thought leader in the realm of human connections at work. With expertise as an innovative learning designer, she has become a sought-after speaker and facilitator, specializing in leadership, productivity, workplace wellbeing, and personal development. In 2022, her company TeamTalks Pty Ltd achieved a significant milestone by winning a seat in the prestigious EY Foundry Start Up Accelerator Program. Leveraging a unique combination of technology and human-centered design, Birthe’s company has successfully created an innovative employee experience that fosters connection among hybrid teams. Her proprietary teaming framework is a simple, yet effective way to build psychological safety in teams in a fun and sustainable way. 

Nithya Ramaswamy

Solutions Director
LHH

Nithya Ramaswamy is Solutions Director within the LHH Leadership Development practice, for Australia and New Zealand. Nithya brings over twenty years of experience in providing insights, consultancy, client engagement, leadership development design and delivery to leaders across a range of client organisations globally. Having led complex projects that span multiple levels of leadership and across various markets and functional areas, Nithya has a proven track record in partnering with stakeholders to co-create learning architectures and bring to life robust leadership development experiences. 

Having a career background as both industry leader and consultant, Nithya is a credible and commercial learning professional who brings insightful, practical and innovative approaches in her work. Nithya has diverse global and industry experience spanning banking and financial services, insurance, infrastructure, agribusiness, professional services, telecommunications, public sector, education, and pharmaceuticals. 

Sanna Rissanen

Founder & Director
My Human Self

Sanna is the founder of My Human Self, specialised in designing and delivering strategic leadership development, talent and culture solutions. She loves the complexity of humans and their stories, and feels aligned to her purpose when she witnesses positive behavioural changes, deep reflections and radical realisations.  

Sanna has worked in leadership and talent consulting, management consulting, banking and insurance in London and Sydney for the past 15+ years. She has experience managing complex global, pan-European and Oceania-wide projects and building strategic yet pragmatic solutions for small and large organisations across different industries. Prior to starting her business, Sanna was the Executive Leadership and Talent Development Program Lead at IAG, and previously worked for EY and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. 

Outside of work, Sanna enjoys Latin dancing, art in all its forms (creating and appreciating), travel, reading and jazz. 

Ashlea Roach

Founder & Managing Director
People Co.

For almost 20 years now, Ash has been supporting businesses of all shapes and sizes unlock the potential of their greatest resource – their people.  
 
A strategic people and culture executive, Ash has long held a passion for pushing Human Resources in exciting and empowering directions. And she channelled this passion into founding People Co. Managing a progressive people & culture consultancy means Ash can keep partnering with business to make real progress for people – and help shape a better world of work. And when her own work’s done for the day, you’ll find her spending quality time with Benji, her fur baby. 

Nicky G

DJ

Nicky Gibson is A DJ based in both Sydney and Brisbane and started her career as a singer /songwriter, as well as a TV host with Channel 7. Her love of music then sent her into the world of DJing at a time when female DJs were few and far between.

Years later Nicky cemented her place as an outstanding DJ in the club world, playing all music genres. She has worked alongside many of Australia’s leading artists such as Stafford Brothers, Timmy Trumpet,Ruby Rose and Havana Brown.

Nicky has also made the transition into the corporate scene, providing the music and setting for clients that include BMW, Napoleon Perdis, Alfa pharmaceuticals, Optus, spec savers, ray ban, Randwick races, Accolade Wines, NRL league, Big Bash Cricket, and various Merivale functions.

Her vast understanding of different music styles, years of experience, and the ability to adapt to different clients and their needs make her an ideal choice at any corporate event or function.

Personality and style is also another important factor at any event which Nicky delivers on all fronts.