with Natasha Hawker (Employee Matters), Tyson Hackwood (Braintree Payments) & Martin Martinez (www.entrepreneurcard.com.au)

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

NATASHA HAWKER

Natasha started Employee Matters, with her partner Mark because they see many small to medium businesses (SMEs) that desperately need help with their people issues. We believe that you need HR support at particular times in your business but not necessarily in a full-time capacity.

We know that to have a successful business you need to be surrounded by a great team to help you deliver your service or product and free up your time to focus on your business critical issues.

So they integrated Natasha’s extensive HR and business experience with Mark’s finance background, to provide the HR support and business understanding that you need.

A business focused, qualified HR professional with over 20 years experience delivering creative and practical HR solutions in Australia, UK and India. Well renowned for enthusiastic and highly effective delivery of training sessions, recruitment success and managed terminations. Achievements have been in the area of proactively developing strong relationships across all levels and in a variety of countries, through effective coaching and excellent interpersonal skills.

These skills are now being applied in the SME space to assist businesses with maximising their people strategy. Let us show you how we can positive impact your people strategy.

Specialties: Recruitment, training development and delivery, policy development, coaching expertise,terminations & international experience in regional roles.

 

Contact Details:

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/natasha.hawker

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/NatashaHawker

Blog: http://employeematters.blogspot.com/

Website: http://www.employeematters.com.au

 

 

TYSON HACKWOOD

Tyson Hackwood is the Head of Markets Asia Pacific for Braintree. He is proven business leader and an expert on payment innovations across the Omni-Channel Commerce industry. He specialises in the development of commerce platforms and executions on marketplaces as well as the alignment of technology with best business practice for the development of products, execution in market and positive brand interactions.

Prior to joining Braintree, Mr Hackwood held Senior Positions within PayPal, and has also spent over 9 years with Vodafone in both Consumer and Enterprise Mobile Applications.

 

Contact Details

Website: https://www.braintreepayments.com/

Linked In: au.linkedin.com/in/tysonhackwood/

Twitter:  www.twitter.com/tysonius

 

 

MARTIN MARTINEZ

Dealing with adversity, uncertainty and change are common traits ingrained in most successful entrepreneurs.

A few years after arriving in Australia with less then $3,000 and a suitcase, Martin completed his High School certificate before pursuing a career in corporate Australia.

He quickly realised that working for someone else didn’t fit his personality.

Martin’s next challenge wasn’t what business to start but where to get the money to start it. New to the scene with limited contacts Martin knew that self-funding would be his best option.

After returning to the corporate world briefly, Martin moved his way up the corporate ladder at Star Casino and in 2005 went on to launch Australian Poker League and after 3 years of hard work, determination and persistence the company became the world’s largest poker franchise with over 120 territories in two countries, whilst generating combined revenue north of $50M per annum.

Martin now spends majority of his time investing in new start-ups and mentoring entrepreneurs.

 

Contact details:

LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/martinmatinezau

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001138004191

Website: http://www.martinmartinez.me/