Chris Gray - Your Empire

As an investment property expert, I teach people how to create wealth and improve their work/life balance through investment property. Many people work hard to pay off their home, or perhaps have just one investment property. I seek to change conventional thinking—and to teach people how to better leverage their income & equity to provide cash flow for their lifestyle. My strategies are easy-to-understand, but incredibly powerful and life-changing for anyone willing to take action. For instance, instead of working overtime, how about leveraging your equity to buy an investment property, and using the rental income to supplement your working income? You could then buy another investment property and switch to part-time work.

My expertise has come from a mix of experience. I am a professional investor, qualified accountant, buyers’ agent & mortgage broker, all of which have contributed to my success in property. But more importantly, I am passionate and have funded my own lifestyle with investment property income for over 15 years. I began property investing at 22 with only $35,000, & turned that into a $3.5m portfolio in less than 9 years. This allowed me to retire from full time work at 31. My portfolio is now in excess of $10m & continues to grow.

I am also the CEO of Your Empire, an independent property consultancy that builds investment property portfolios for time-poor professionals. In my earlier days, I personally taught clients how to create wealth & lifestyle options through investment property. I now better leverage my time by providing advice & strategies regularly through my TV appearances, keynote speaking, my books & the general media. You can also see me at 6.30pm Friday nights hosting Your Property Empire on Sky News Business Channel.

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Jeff Cooper – General Manager, Step Change Marketing

Jeff learnt his most valuable lessons in marketing by spending his own money.

Some marketers might be happy with a career that saw them conceptualise and implement million dollar campaigns for some of the world’s largest brands, including; Vodafone, Commonwealth Bank, Sony, 3M and The Australian, be crowned as one of the top marketers and entrepreneurs in Australia in B&T and Anthill magazine’s 30- under-30 Awards respectively, pioneer world first marketing technologies, co-author a six book series on strategy, guest lecture at Sydney’s top universities on marketing strategy and take the helm as the country’s first Gen Y General Manager of a strategic marketing consultancy. That’s Jeff’s career to date and, at the ripe old age of 28, he plans on achieving a lot more.

He’s a true generalist, that’s why he’s Step Change’s General Manager (among other things). His interests as a musician, accomplished painter, woodworker and sculptor are balanced with a passion for business and an almost ‘rainman’ like ability with obscure topics like biology, human neurology, decision-making and behaviour.

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Stephen Krouzecky - Krouzer IP

Stephen Krouzecky is a Senior Patent and Trade Marks Attorney with Krouzer IP. Stephen has over 30 years experience in the IP profession having acted for many thousands of SME’s and MLE’s on both sides of Australia and many large multinational corporations in the USA, Europe and Korea. He is currently the alternate delegate representing Australia at the International Federation of IP Attorneys and is a member of honour of that organisation, being a past president of the Training and Education Commission of the international body from 2009 to 2012.

Stephen has a passion to use his vast knowledge and experience gained from all levels of the profession both in Australia and internationally to help SME’s use IP rights effectively by creating an IP backbone for their business and grow their businesses strategically in new and evolving markets to create long term wealth.

Stephen’s core expertise is in dealing with computer, electrical and mechanical inventions, and in the effective selection, protection and use of brands and trade marks. He is also very adept at getting businesses out of trouble when encountering IP infringement issues and in the enforcement of IP rights.

Stephen’s specialties also include protecting “high tech†such as “app†and Internet based systems, business methods and software, medical devices, gaming machines, plastic explosive detection technology and e-based financial systems.
Stephen’s original technical qualification was a degree in Applied Science, which started out as an electronic engineering degree and then focused on digital logic with the advent of the digital age in the late seventies, before being swept up in the patent and trade mark attorney profession.

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