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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