Dean Salakas Email & Phone Number

Canterbury, NSW, AU

I have been advising businesses for many years as a side gig while running The Party People. As my time is limited I only ever worked with 1 business at a time. I now have more capacity as I have exited The Party People.I have started and exited 3 business. I sold my first business BlissDj's (which supplied DJ's to exclusive venues such as the Botanic.

I have won innovation awards at one of Australia's largest retailes and at my own small retailer. With my experience, I am able coach individuals to become Intrapreneurs within an organisation, help teams innovate or step into innovation projects within organisations. After university I landed a job at Woolworths. To cut a long story short, I proposed a.

Drummoyne, NSW, AU

I have the best job in the world, I am the CEO of a great team that helps people create the parties that they dreamed about!

Drummoyne, NSW, AU

I assisted with the development of Australia's first online party store launching it with Click and Collect and became the first retailer in Australia to offer Click and Collect. I managed the online stores content and got products online as well as working with developers to continuously improve the site.In my final year at university in 2003, I did my.

Drummoyne, NSW, AU

At the age of 4 years old I started putting sand in bags and covering them with coloured foil for my parents to use as balloon weights. I worked every Saturday for as long as I remember and also worked school holidays because I was obsessed with earning pocket money. I gradually progressed to be a retail assistant, stock manager and delivery driver.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Paris, La Defense, FR

Having attended the event for many years and providing feedback that was often adopted, I formally joined the advisor board for the event. Its the best networking event for retailers in Australian hope to help build on an already amazing event.

I have spoken at various conferences, hosted round tables and chaired sessions on various topics including The Party People's growth story, business hacks, initiatives at The Party People and more.Speaker engagements I have had are including but not limited to; - NRX National Retail Expo - https://www.nra.net.au/events/nrxpo/- Etail Australia.

Party Stylists Of The Year awards celebrates various categories of party styling and suppliers. Having won at the awards initially I have been asked to be a judge as as an industry veteran pioneering many innovations in retail and party. See website for details.

My role is to advise this new conference to Australia on its entry and continues since entry on improving its offering.

Sydney, New South Wales, AU

Advisory Board Member for Online Retailer Expo and Conference, Australia's largest Retail Conference. My focus is on advising the Start Up stream of the conference as well as being a speaker and chair for some of the sessions.In 2018 when joining the board, my first request was to have 50% female speakers which received unanimous support. The conference.

I owned and run Sydney Zombie Walk for 4 years and in that time I grew it from a small 1000 person gathering into a 10,000+ major event. I raised thousands of dollars for The Brain Foundation in the process. I sold the business to new owners to focus on my core business as the event grew too large for me to do as a side gig. I sold it and its now run with.

I pitched "The Party People" to the sharks on season 1 episode 7 of Shark Tank. The Sharks were Naomi Simpson, John McGrath, Steve Baxter, Andrew Banks and Janine Allis. I received an offer of $400k from Janine Alis which I turned down. To quote Naomi's blog after the show "This pitch was great fun and high energy".

Bella Vista, NSW, AU

In my previous role at Woolworths, I found myself in a meeting with the Supermarket DC operations manager debating over how costs should be measured in his division. He was surprised that a uni grad with no operational experience (me), had the nerve to challenge his cost management approach. Turned out I said some things that were right and 6 months later.

Bella Vista, NSW, AU

As soon as I finished university I emailed Woolworths (Australias largest and most successful retailer of the time) and told them that I wanted to work for them. To my surprise they called me in for an interview and after a few meetings I was offered a business analyst role which was rare for a graduate. My first project was to create an activity based.

Grew the business from doing free parties for friends to a business with about 5 dj's. Securing lucrative high end venue contracts with government venues including the State Library and Botanic Gardens resulted in my focus being weddings while still doing the odd nightclub appearance at oxford street venues. All my work came from word of mouth and my.

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