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Clare Collins is the founding Managing Director of Insight Communications, a multi-award-winning full-service public relations and communication agency since 2008. Specialising in cause, culture, community and health awareness campaigns, Clare has received national and international peer recognition winning 12 PRIA awards (2010-2016) and 2 international awards to become Australia’s first PR agency to win an AMEC International Communication Effectiveness Award (2014); and, was Australia’s first recipient of a Global Alliance COMM PRIX Award (2014) at the World PR Forum.   Clare’s multi-award-winning health and awareness campaigns include; Australia’s national Asbestos Awareness Campaign, Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and the pro-bono campaigns;…

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Mark de Raad is the founder and Managing Director of Australian software and business consulting company I-Nex Corporation Pty Ltd, established in Adelaide in 1998.  I-Nex is an Australian based company working globally, specialising in information and process management systems for the automotive market, permit to work safety systems, research, not-for-profit and artistic sectors.   Mark holds a number of director and government-appointed board positions with Australian based organisations, including as President of Recitals Australia, Chair of the McLaren Vale Music Festivals Association, Deputy Chair of the Cabaret Fringe Association, Member of Musica Viva Member’s Council and Member of the…

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Alice Collins is a multi-award-winning communications Director who has worked in the public relations and communications industry across the cause, culture, community and health sectors since 2006.   In 2008, Alice co-founded Insight Communications, a multi-award-winning public relations and communications agency. She has received national and international peer recognition winning 12 PRIA awards (2010-2016) and her agency was Australia’s first PR agency to win an AMEC International Communication Effectiveness Award and a Global Alliance COMM PRIX Award in 2014.   In 2015 Alice received an award from Crime Stoppers Australia in recognition of her dedication and commitment to assisting NSW…

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Robert has over 10 years’ experience in financial advice, including high-level asset and income structuring and HNW portfolio management. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in accounting and financial planning and has been a CFA Charterholder (Chartered Financial Analyst) since 2014.   Through Robert’s interest in construction, he is the director of Embodied Construction, a boutique company dedicated to sustainable building.   Robert has a personal interest in the rights of families and children under human rights laws as a result of his personal circumstances. Following the abduction of his two small children in Columbia by their mother, Robert…

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John Bateman OAM, is a highly respected community leader and lawyer based in Sydney’s Western Suburb region of Penrith. He established the legal firm Bateman Battersby Lawyers in 1984 and has extensive experience across Commercial/Business Law, Property Law, Planning & Local Government Law and Wills, Estates and Estate Planning Law.   For 40 years John has been an active member in the Nepean and Western Sydney region serving in a voluntary capacity on many boards and committees across the fields of medical research, economic development, sport, culture and entertainment and has been a great advocate for Western Sydney, its people,…

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