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Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Melius Advisory specialises in assisting early stage ventures develop the right structure to ensure they are investment ready and can attract the right people to their business. Our vision is to champion business owners to build sustainable and scalable businesses. We do this by providing practical experience, expert advice and easy to follow structures which can change the way companies work taking an idea to its full potential. We also assist with corporate governance structures and legal advice to assist in this growth. We work with small businesses, sole traders and partnerships who want to grow by providing scalable and sustainable solutions, and commercial advice. This ensures our clients can build their companies in safe and structured way, ready for their next investor.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Venture Alchemy seeks to nurture and grow established enterprises by propelling transformation, acceleration and expansion to maximise business potential and realise higher value. We achieve this via our analytical disciplines to support the identification, development and growth of new initiatives within our network. By providing opportunity development, expert advice, business consulting, transformation support and research services, we assist our enterprises to evolve and grow.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Presidium is a professional services provider and procurer covering Corporate Structuring, Business Strategy and Fund Administration. Presidium delivers the future thinking, strategic direction, and practical execution to strengthen our business portfolios to build a better future.

Southport, Queensland, Au

The team at Stone Group Lawyers are adept and stand strong to deliver outcomes across our specialised practice areas. Stone Group Lawyers is positioned as a rising law firm in South East Queensland and emphasises a culture of success for our clients.Our clients range over a variety of industries and vary in size from individuals through to blue chip ASX listed corporations. Our team believes in its ability to deliver results and is committed to delivering high quality advice.Stone Group is more than just an everyday law firm and prides itself on a community involvement and pro-bono legal advice. In collaboration with the Bond University Law Clinic Program, Stone Group Lawyers offers both the opportunity for students to engage with lawyers on the Gold Coast and the public assistance in commercial legal matters in a pro-bono forum.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Phosphate International (now North West Phosphate) is a vertically integrated company based in Brisbane, focusing on mineral exploration and fertiliser product development. The high quality phosphate resource is located in Mount Isa and through a recent acquisition has a JORC estimate of over 200 million tonnes of resource. I managed the effective operations of the company and: - Completed the acquisition of the Legend International assets at a low enterprise value to increase the valuation of Phosphate International from $5 million to $40 million.- Ran a successful marketing program to retain the first international off take agreement with a large Chinese company to the value of $1.9 billion over 10 years- Changed the company focus from exploration to product development after identification of a gap in the organic phosphate fertiliser market- Oversaw financial management of the company- Developed the exploration strategy and project plan for phosphate exploration in Mount Isa- Commenced and ran large exploration project approvals process with DILGP, DES and DNRME- Explored capital raising opportunities with potential customers- Ran research and development programs for organic fertiliser which included a patent application

Brisbane City, Queensland, Au

I held the position of Committee Member of the Finance, Audit, Risk and Governance Committee at The Institute of Managers and Leaders, a go-to organisation for businesses, professional managers, emerging leaders and students thinking about their leadership future.

AQHRD was awarded the first proprietary racing approval for Quarter Horses in Queensland. In this role my tasks were:• Provided strategic assistance to the board to gain the conditional approval through the Queensland Office of Racing• Ensured that the company and directors met fiduciary duties• Ensured the company complied with legal, ethical and financial obligations

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Initiative Capital was a small government relations company which supported small to medium companies in their applications for market led proposals to government. In this role I:• Oversaw financial management of the management services company including budgets, forecasts and records• Ensured the company and directors meet fiduciary duties• Ensured compliance with legal, ethical and financial obligations• Contract and tender management• Risk and compliance management• Employee recruitment, development and performance management• Provided legal guidance to the boards of various companies in the Initiative Capital group• Established and maintained corporate governance structure • Assisted with the restructure at the Translational Research Institute

Flinders Group was a project services firm which specialised in resources and linear infrastructure projects. The company was successfully sold to Arcadis in 2015. In this role my tasks included:• Staff recruitment, training and development and performance management• Development of strategy to continue to grow the project development team• Management of approval processes for a number of large mining exploration projects

In this role I was responsible for:• Development of team strategy and budgets• Recruitment, training and performance management of staff and contractors• Contract and tender management• Ensuring cost-effective, quality project planning and deliver

In this role I undertook: • Development and delivery of Land Access Training program• Growth of team to deliver large mining land access program in North Queensland• Provision of honest and unencumbered advice to clients• Provision of project management solutions to contractors and government bodies

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Corrs Chambers Westgarth is pioneered by lawyers who are incisive, accountable and fearless in their commitment to creating success for their clients. In this role my duties as a Lawyer were to use strategic and creative thinking to listen and study my client’s businesses, understand the challenges they face, offer legal advice, and help them move forward.

Xstrata Copper was one of the world’s largest refined copper companies. In this role I was a Paralegal who provided the business with:• Case planning, development and management duties• Legal research and fact gathering• Drafting correspondence and analysing documents• Fact checking • Solid knowledge of legal terminology• Communication with clients

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

I was responsible for maintaining and increasing the member numbers in Queensland's regional areas and the member database.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb)

Graduate Diploma, Legal Practice

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba)