authors

  • Paul Merrill

    Paul Merrill has written for, launched and edited newspapers, magazines and websites in Australia and England over a career spanning far more years than he’d care to remember and was formerly a multi award-winning Editor-in-Chief.

  • Carolyn Breeze

    Carolyn is the ANZ General Manager at recurring payments platform GoCardless. She is an experienced leader with more than 15 years in the technology sector, including extensive international experience within the fintech, e-commerce, and telecommunications sectors. Her astute leadership and professionalism has resulted in her being awarded one of CEO Magazine’s IT and Telecommunications Executive of the Year awards in 2018 as well as being recognised as one of the top 20 Women in Fintech.

  • Sarah Liu

    Sarah Liu

    Sarah Liu is the founder and director of The Dream Collective, Australia’s most influential network of high-calibre young women. Through this networking platform, The Dream Collective has been responsible for empowering and equipping thousands of professional women into leadership roles through leadership training and mentoring opportunities. She is also the co-founder of Gemini3 and has lead branding strategies for some of the world’s most recognised brands including Revlon, Olay and Coca-Cola. Sarah has represented Australia in the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance (YEA), served as an APAC advisor to the Japanese Prime Minister’s Cabinet and was recently recognised as one of the “40 under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians.

  • Jeremy Deutsch

    Jeremy Deutsch is the President at Equinix APAC, the world’s leading data centre and interconnection company, offering the fastest application performance, lowest latency routes worldwide and a digital ecosystem for financial, content or rich-media, enterprise, and cloud networks. He is responsible for the regional management, strategy and growth plans for Equinix in Asia-Pacific, including existing operations in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Singapore.

  • Lisa Stephenson

    Lisa Stephenson is the author of Read Me First (Major Street Publishing), a book filled with thought provoking coaching questions, strategies for success and life’s must-haves. Lisa draws on decades of experience as a global speaker, leadership consultant and success coach. She is also the founder of the global, Australian-based consulting firm, Who Am I Projects.

  • Rosaleen McMeel

    Rosaleen McMeel is a leading journalist and award-winning editor in her native Ireland. With over 20 years’ experience in print, digital and TV, serving an eclectic mix of organisations, her passion for creative content continues to inspire her work.

  • Christopher Brown

    Christopher Brown is Managing Director of Mentorum Consulting International, a corporate strategy advisory. He is a founding advisory board member of the ASEAN-Australia Education Dialogue.

  • Dean Taylor

    CEO of Digital Wine Ventures (ASX: DW8), Dean Taylor is a highly regarded wine technology entrepreneur, with seven successful online wine ventures under his belt.

  • Jeni Port

    Jeni Port is a Melbourne-based wine writer, author and judge. She writes for Australia’s leading wine magazines including Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine, Winestate, Wine Selector magazine, Halliday Wine magazine and, in Europe for Meininger’s Wine Business International magazine.