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Lesley-Ann Trow

Lesley-Ann Trow is a seasoned bootstrapping entrepreneur who loves to share what she learns with other SMEs. Her Consulting talents range from asking ‘why?’ roughly 17 consecutive times to assist clients develop their razor sharp cut-through WOM marketing message to helping SMEs protect their reputation and bank balance as they navigate the online world. Start following Lesley-Ann on Twitter @150dominos and please tell her if she makes a mistake.

Louise Schultze

Louise Schultze is CEO of iBidAM.com, an advertising and marketing company focused on helping small and medium business. She is also a motivational and topical public speaker.

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Mark Cameron

Mark Cameron is CEO of Working Three, a digital strategy and implementation agency. He strives to keep the company focused on emerging technologies and industry trends. Speaking regularly around Australia (and the world) on the future social media and digital strategy, Mark stays focused on customers and outcomes, not the technology. He carefully guides his audience through the maze of online connectivity, leading to simple strategic conclusions.

Matt Leeburn

Matt Leeburn is co-founder and Managing Director of Interaction Dynamics and Click Logic. He has extensive experience in new business development, marketing and digital strategy. Follow him on Twitter @intdynamics.

Matthew da Silva

Matthew da Silva writes feature stories to fulfil a dream after working in communications and technical writing roles for two decades. He grew up in Sydney, lived in Japan for nine years and now lives on the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland. He blogs daily at Happy Antipodean.

Megan Barrow

Megan is a marketer with a love of communication - traditional & online - and how social media is changing the way we engage with each other. She recently jumped with a leap of faith and is now Director of new start-up JoElla Marketing.

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Michelle Matthews

Michelle Matthews is the founder of the Melbourne-based publishing company Deck of Secrets. In November 2008, the company launched its first iPhone app – DRINK. Melbourne. It now offers 10 apps, with more on the way. Michelle’s iPhone has all 11 app screens filled, with dozens more in iTunes.

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Mick Liubinskas

Mick Liubinskas is one of Australia’s leading web strategists, having served in head marketing roles at Kazaa, Zapr and Tangler. He now runs Pollenizer, the business incubator he co-founded with former-Kazaa colleague Phil Morle.

Mike Walsh

Mr 1% Spend

What is The 1% Spend? It’s about spending money, other people’s money, to deliver technology solutions. It’s also about getting that spend down to 1% of gross revenues and still delivering what the business needs. The 1% Spend is written by a prominent Australian I.T. consultant who is choosing to remain anonymous (and candid).

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Nigel Malone

Nigel Malone is a freelance brand strategist and writer, with particular expertise in the fields of tourism, finance, technology, sustainability and social change. Connect with him on Linkedin http://au.linkedin.com/in/nigelmalone

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Paul Groth

Paul Groth is a seasoned marketing strategist with 15 years experience across disciplines working for micro to large corporates in multiple industries. He is the owner and Managing Director of Shelbyblue Marketing in Perth, Western Australia. Visit his blog at marketingmixer.com.au.

Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan joined Australian Anthill Magazine as a features writer in May 2004 and was appointed Editor soon after. He has written scores of feature articles for Anthill Magazine, on diverse issues including digital media, innovation, venture capital, export, intellectual property, technology commercialisation and online strategy. During this time he has interviewed scores of prominent people, including Andrew Denton, Don Watson, Sabeer Bhatia (founder of Hotmail) and Sir Martin Evans (father of stem cell research). Paul presides over the development of Anthill’s web presence. He also blogs at http://1000shards.com. Follow him on Twitter: @PaulDRyan.

Persephone Nicholas

Persephone Nicholas is a freelance writer and regular contributor to The Weekend Australian newspaper. She is particularly interested in career and workplace issues and also writes about travel and lifestyle. www.persephone-nicholas.com

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Ray Beatty

Ray Beatty is a veteran ad man and regular Anthill contributor. He runs MarketingSolutions, a consultancy advising companies on how to turn around their unsuccessful advertising campaigns. www.ebeatty.com

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Rhondalynn Korolak

Rhondalynn Korolak is a lawyer, chartered accountant, clinical hypnotherapist and Master of NLP and is an expert at business acceleration and the power of influence. She is the author of On The Shoulders of Giants and Financial Foreplay.

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Rowan Gilmore

Dr Rowan Gilmore has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC) since May 2003, where he is responsible for leading the organisation in its mission to help businesses, research organisations and governments accelerate the commercialisation of their know-how and technology. Prior to this role, he was based in London and Geneva from 1998 as Vice President of Network Services (Europe) for the airline IT company SITA, now France Telecom’s Orange subsidiary. Rowan’s career has spanned a variety of senior product and business management roles, with much of his experience gained abroad. His career began in Asia as a field engineer in the oil industry for Schlumberger Ltd., and followed with over fifteen years in the US and Europe in the electronics design and telecommunications industries. He is an engineering graduate and winner of the university medal from the University of Queensland and he subsequently earned his Doctor of Science degree from Washington University in St. Louis in the US. He continues to have strong links with the University of Queensland, holding adjunct professorships in both the School of Business and the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

Sahil Merchant

Sahil Merchant is the founder of mag nation. He writes Anthill's The Entrepreneurial Truth blog - Unspun lessons from a start-up entrepreneur at the coal-face. twitter.com/sahilmerchant

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Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin

One of Anthill Magazine’s inaugural 30under30 Award winners, Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin thrives on creating smart solutions to every-day problems. For the past decade he has been balancing the demands of a full time Naval career, a Masters in Engineering and running personal businesses in his scant spare time. In 2009, Eckersley-Maslin returned from duty in Iraq with a drive to storm the ‘front line’ of Australian business.

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Stephen Sammartino

Stephen Sammartino escaped his cubicle after 10 years marketing global brands. He has now founded two start-ups, recently launching Rentoid.com - the place to rent anything.

Steve Anderson

Steve Anderson started as a journalist, working at The New York Times, and has spent the past 30 years interpreting business to investors. He is now Managing Partner, Marquis Advisory Group (San Francisco and Sydney).

Steve Dowling

Steve Dowling is the founder and CEO of ClientLink, an organisation designed to help Australian businesses grow through export. With formal qualifications in Japanese language & culture, domestic & export marketing, and international business, Steve has directed a number of strategic planning initiatives related to export marketing and international business development. He writes mainly on topics of relevance to current and aspiring Australian exporters.

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Steve Sherlock

Steve Sherlock is co-founder of Oodles.com, one of Australia’s leading online car rental aggregators.

Steve Torso

Steve is the Founder of Wholesale Investor Pty Ltd, which is a high end subscription based magazine and website, for providing wholesale, profession and institutional investors with access to leading private and small-cap listed companies.

Sue Hirst

Sue Hirst is a director of CAD Partners, a nation-wide mobile CFO "On-Call"/financial control/business accounting service for SME owners.

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Tian Yang

Tian Yang is the founding member and current president of Student Entrepreneurs | Agents of Change, an organisation dedicated to creating and cultivating entrepreneurship communities in Australian universities. He is also the sponsorship and partnership manager of the second annual Entrepreneurs Week 2009. Tian is currently completing his Bachelor of Commerce/Media & Communication degree at the University of Melbourne. (@tian_yang)

Tim Harcourt

Tim Harcourt is Chief Economist of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) and the author of THE AIRPORT ECONOMIST www.theairporteconomist.com

Tony Eades

Tony Eades is the creative director of the BrandManager, a creative, marketing and communications agency based in Sydney and Perth. He is a business branding expert with more than 20 years experience in design, marketing, advertising and media production.

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