Michael Baer has been a leader in Business as Mission since the early 1990s. He has served as a pastor, entrepreneur, business executive, and business coach in the US and several other countries.

Currently Mike serves as an executive for EmployBridge, LLC (a US employment firm), CEO of the Jholdas Group (a small business consulting firm) and is Executive Director of International Micro Enterprise Development (IMED).

Amanda is a Queensland ordained minister. She has developed several businesses and companies worldwide and has been involved in the inception of humanitarian organisations such as “Compassion for the Poor” which helps eradicate system povertyand create solutions for systemic prosperity.

She is passionate for the church to engage the spheres of influence to bring transformation, and to awaken entrepreneurs into their destiny.

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Professor Clark is an Australian doctor who was the key figure in the research and development of the Bionic Ear, a multi-channel Cochlear Implant. It provides speech understanding to profoundly deaf people, and spoken language to children born deaf. It is the first sensory-neural prosthesis to effectively bring electronic technology into a functional relationship with human consciousness.

Considered as one of the greatest advances in clinical neurosciences, the Cochlear device has been implanted into more than 125,000 people in over 100 countries.

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Mark has extensive experience working as a CEO, Director and Managing Director, in both private and publicly listed companies. He is currently Non-Executive Director at Gloria Jean's Coffees after 2 years as CEO of Hagemeyer Brands Australia. His specialty is creating value through strategy, vision and culture, and he describes himself as a “Change Catalyst”.

Mark has held a number of commercial and "not for profit" directorships, on industry, trust, leadership, international missions and educational bodies.

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Since concluding an extensive career as a member of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Neville has been active in a range of business and Christian activities including involvement in a private equity business, consulting roles in business and church environments and mentoring of business and church leaders.

In addition to being Chairman of AMP Bank Limited, he is involved with several other Boards including Chairman of Focus on the Family, John Mallison Ministries, the Australian College of Ministries and WorkVentures Ltd.

Karl has been Senior Pastor at Gymea Baptist Church in Sydney's southern suburbs for more than fourteen years.

He has wide leadership experience including Executive Director of the Australian Arrow Leadership Development program, co-founder of Media Project, "Jesus - All About Life" and Director of Olive Tree Media which produces radio and TV programs payed around Australia and internationally.

Karl also sits on several boards including Samaritans Purse (Australia), BGEA (Australia), Christian Television Australia, Sydney Prayer Breakfast and Southern Community Welfare.

Tony’s expertise and passion for business runs deep. He has been the Managing Director of a publically listed company as well as CEO of a successful technology company.

As General Manager of Harvey Norman’s computer and communications division he increased the division’s turnover from a healthy $12 million to a staggering $565 million over 9 years.

He has formed several of his own companies, including Achievers Group in 2002 which works with various organisations including Cisco, Australia Post, Gloria Jeans, Harvey Norman, LG Electronics, Sanyo, Mortgage Choice and Rebel Sport.

Tony is the founder and CEO of 2nd Road. He works primarily at the senior level, engaging executive teams in Strategic Conversations™ and training them in strategic thinking and leadership skills.

His experience over the past 20 years is in transforming corporate cultures to become more creative and more open in their thinking and communication.

He helps his clients set up innovative environments to breed ideas and design them into better products, services and processes.

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Chris is a passionate speaker and brand development expert. He has built a successful business portfolio, including the award winning corporate branding and advertising agency, Modemedia and online internet marketing consultancy, WebOnline. He is also the co-founder of the Master Speaking Institute.

He enjoys inspiring people with his ‘attitude with altitude’.

Peter has over 40 year’s business experience at a high profile level. He was part of the team who launched McDonalds in Australia.

In 1996 Peter, with Nabi Saleh, started Gloria Jean’s Coffees in Australia, purchasing the International Master Franchise and brand in January 2005.

Peter is the author of “Win In Business”. He is passionate about seeing business people come alive to the full purpose and potential God has for them.

After studying commerce and law Peter worked in merchant banking in Sydney and Zurich including the field of leveraged acquisition.

He then retrained for Christian ministry and now directs a national outreach to workers called City Bible Forum and assists a number of Christian ministries in their planning and execution.

He enjoys evangelical endeavours and helping ministry start-ups.

Peter flew as an airline pilot for 25 years with Ansett in Australia, serving as both a Training Captain and Simulator Manager and spent 7 years as a Commander on long haul international operations with Air Mauritius and Singapore Airlines.

Since the early 1980's Peter pioneered and developing Christian fellowship groups in the airlines both in Australia and overseas.

He is the CEO of Australian Marketplace Connections.

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Rob has enjoyed a stellar career in media, advertising & communications.

In 1987 after almost a decade in retailing he decided to pursue his passion for broadcast media. He held various roles including Group General Manager of the Grundy’s National Sea Fm Network.

Today Rob operates a general consulting practice in media & communications.

Rob was an elected Councillor for the Gold Coast City from 2004 to 2008 working as Chairman of the City’s Finance & Internal Services Committee. He was recently pre-selected to run as LNP candidate for the State seat of Southport.

Sean is the Senior Pastor of Metro Church, a multi-locational church in Melbourne. He has been pastoring and planting churches since 1989.

He also has a role as a part-time leader with Australian Marketplace Connections.

He has been involved in various business ventures over the years and enjoys ministering in the marketplace.

Justin has been involved with business and church leadership for over 10 years. He runs Jireh Financial, a Kingdom business designed to help people achieve “real prosperity”.

Prior to this, as Product Manager for Count Financial Limited, the largest accounting based financial planning group in Australia, he trained hundreds of accountants and planners in writing leasing finance and corporate super.  

He is a visionary thinker and is passionate about change and transformation occuring at all levels of society. 

Tim is the CFO of Mission Australia. He is a UK Chartered Accountant with 20 years' experience providing strategic financial leadership and controllership in US, European and Australian companies, including special purpose entities, superannuation funds and trusts.

As CFO for Mission Australia he provides oversight for ethics, risk management, compliance and corporate governance ensuring compliance with government obligations and regulatory requirements.

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Wendy is Chair of Wengeo Group, an innovative diversified industrial group with investments in manufacturing, precision engineering, industrial property development, venture capital and new media.

Wendy integrates her faith into the business world by serving on a number of committees including the Sydney Prayer Breakfast, Chairman of the Australian Springboard, a venture catalyst program for women-led high growth companies, Australian Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry Advisory Board.

Wendy also mentors women in leadership and emerging entrepreneurs.

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Angela has 18 years experience in people and lifestyle management, coaching and training in the leisure, lifestyle and hospitality industries.

She is a certified trainer and assessor specialising in image and lifestyle consulting.  She founded Scent of Life as a business designed to help empower women to define and create a signature style that reflects who they are today and where they aspire to be tomorrow.

She is also an independent business advisor accredited with the Institute for Independent Business.

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