Dan Draper - Codehire

I started programming computers when I was 12 years old. I’ve always loved technology but even more than that I’ve loved the convergence of business and technology.

I quit Uni in my final year when I took a job with an IT services firm but I only lasted 18 months before I decided to go out and play startup. I teamed up with an old high school buddy, Paul Bladon and together we created NetFox, an IT security company specialising in Internet safety products for schools.

We took on investors, built a team and for a while did pretty well. At only 25 we both got distracted and ended up creating a subsidiary firm, Codefire – a web development and consulting company. After a while we realised that running two companies was not as easy as we thought and NetFox started to struggle. We had a big project go awry with Codefire and ended up close to financial ruin.

At that point I realised I had to focus. Paul took a step back from the businesses and I set about getting things back in shape. I slimmed down the teams and while we kept the NetFox IP, sold off all of its contracts to competitors. I focussed all of my attentions on Codefire and over the next three years was able to grow it to a profitable 14 person shop.

Eventually, though I grew tired of the consulting game and gradually wound the company back to a small, distributed team having sold some IP and contracts and began looking to the next opportunity.

I worked for a year as CTO of a digital marketing firm while I began planning my next venture. With a new business partner, Nathan Hockley, we are building Codehire to help software companies hire and attract better coders.

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Peter Gordon - Australian Investment Property Solutions

Peter Gordon’s experience and love of property investment makes him the ideal property specialist for those new to investments or those with runs on the board. In 2000, while purchasing his third investment property, he decided to turn his passion into his vocation. He moved into the world of finance as a mortgage broker and established his own business. Peter’s expertise in property investment and structuring loans for clients lead him to a new career as an investment property coach in 2009. In 2012 Peter was a founding partner taking the next leap to create Australian Investment Property Solutions

Australian Investment Property Solutions is a property education & wealth creation business that works with clients to show then a smarter way to invest in the Australian residential property.

AIPSolutions believes that property is a strong asset class and a powerful wealth creation asset for clients to invest in and overtime build wealth and use that created wealth to support their lifestyle or fund their retirement gaols. Property is not a short term goal. It should be an asset you purchase to hold long term. But have thoughts in mind of you end results.

The key fundamentals of investing in the Australian residential property market are ‘Where, What and When to buy’.

These fundamentals are driven by Macro and Micro indicators.

Macro indicators tell us ‘Where to investâ€. We look at an area’s population growth, public
and private infrastructure spending, employment, supply and demand and economic health.

Micro indicators tell us ‘What to invest in’. We look at a property’s value, quality, design,
amenities, access to transportation and rental income.

Opportunity and value combined will guide you on ‘when to invest’

Our expertise is based on education, knowledge and research. We help Integrate investment properties seamlessly into our clients lifestyles and offer a complete ‘end to end’ solution for our clients

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Ameer Soliman - One That Matters

One That Matters is an entrepreneurial Australian company that provides app development services in mobile application development across a broad range of platforms. We have a team of highly skilled developers that are based in our development centre abroad. As we are an Australian firm, this enables us to deliver high quality software and applications at competitive prices.

Ameer started his first business while at school in the telecommunications space and has since gone on to successfully establish, manage and sell over four businesses spanning the Services, Retail and Hospitality industries. He holds an MBA and has also lectured in the School of Marketing at both the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of Western Sydney. He is also the current Chairman of Yasminah’s Gift of Hope, a charity supporting families who go through premature birth and pregnancy loss.

With over a decade of industry marketing experience, as the CMO of One That Matters, Ameer hopes to utilise his skills in creating and managing major campaigns to take this successful business to the next level.

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