Mike Whalley – One Water
When you drink One, the world drinks too.

Mike moved to Australia from the UK in 2011, leaving behind a management consulting job with Accenture to work in the not-for-profit sector.

He currently manages the business behind One Water – a profit-for-purpose organisation which donates 100% of its profits to fund water projects, both in developing countries and here at home in Australia.

The challenges of small business and social enterprise have been reduced thanks to the help of a number of partners, such as Mindshare and B&T, who share the One team’s passion for bringing life changing water projects to people where they need it the most.

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Andrew DaSilva – MediaCom

Andrew started in media advertising in 2009 as a MFA Graduate where he graduated with a High Distinction. He worked as a media buyer on the IAG account. He is now with MediaCom and loves his role as a lead Client Communications Planner on the Volkswagen, Skoda, Bayer and Football Federation of Australia.

Andrew currently the ngen Chairman, which is an initiative to attract, inspire and support young talent with less than 5 years experience. He regularly hosts ngen workshops, present at universities, school career nights, industry conferences, contributes to trade press and help develop industry standard Work Life Balance Policy and developing university partnerships, including internship programs.

Last year, Andrew was the third youngest to make the B&T 30 under 30, the youngest finalist in the B&T Young Achiever of the Year, was a national finalist in the News Limited Cannes Young Lions, graduated from my Masters in Marketing and has been nominated into the global WPP High Potential Group. He’s also a teacher at his local surf lifesaving club on weekends.

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Jackie Maxted – beautyheaven

Jackie began her professional life as a graduate at the BBC in London before moving into the publicity department of a directory-based business. Having caught the publicity bug she emigrated to Australia, to join the leading consumer agency PPR as the Director of their Health and Lifestyle division.

Following four successful years, Jackie left PPR to co-found leading Australian beauty and lifestyle PR firm Maxted Thomas.

Working with some of the globe’s leading beauty and lifestyle brands, Maxted Thomas quickly cemented it’s place as an industry leading PR brand and continues to enjoy huge success nearly two decades later.

In 1999 Jackie left Maxted Thomas for an innovative media venture that was to focus entirely on the newly-emerging Internet. Media and industry PR resource beautydirectory was officially launched in 2000 and quickly grew to service beauty and lifestyle journalists and beauty brand management, Australia wide. Today it continues to be the media and beauty industry bible with up-to-the-minute news coverage, expert interviews and a comprehensive directory of beauty brands and products.

Building on this success, Jackie went on to launch the first custom-built consumer beauty reviews and news site for Australia, beautyheaven in 2008.

In 2013 beautyheaven enjoys a unique place in the Australia-media landscape as the country’s largest female-focused social network. Under Jackie’s leadership the innovative publishing platform has led the market in many innovations including community engagement and management, content marketing and innovative product sampling.

Jackie regularly provides opinion and comment to the industry as a leading authority on digital publishing, community engagement and consumer marketing.

As founder and MD of one of the country’s first and most innovative specialist digital media platforms, Jackie is one of Australia’s true pioneers of multi-media publishing.

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