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Speakers 
Mr Daniel Alegre,
Vice President,
Google
Daniel Alegre is Director of International Strategic Business Development for Google based out of Mountain View, California. Since joining the company, Mr. Alegre has managed Google's International wireless, syndication, content acquisition and reseller partnerships, and has driven a number of strategic deals. Mr. Alegre holds dual degrees in Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and Law from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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Mr Dion Appel,
Chief Executive Officer,
Lifelounge
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 Mr Mat Baxter,
Managing Partner,
Naked Communications
Mat Baxter started his career as a marketing graduate joining Zenith Media in 1998. He rose through Zenith’s ranks quickly, becoming their youngest media manager at 23. In 2003 he joined global advertising giant WPP as business director and assumed responsibility for the launch of the group’s third media network, MAXUS.
Mat moved in 2004 to become one of the founding partners of Naked Communications Australia, redefining the traditional practices of the marketing and advertising industry in Australia. Naked now counts some of the world’s biggest brands amongst its clients including Coca-Cola, Nokia, Unilever and ABSOLUT.
Mat has won several campaign awards including ‘Best Media Idea’ at the Australian Media Federation Awards and Gold at the Australian Direct Marketing Association’s Effectiveness Awards. He is regular commentator on industry issues and is completing his Masters of Marketing with a focus on channel planning.
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Mr Chris Brown,
Managing Director,
DDB
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Mr Nick Bryant,
Correspondent,
BBC News
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Mr David Burden,
Executive Chairman,
Belong group
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 Mr Bill Burton,
Director of Media,
Bigpond
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 Mr Tim Castree,
Chief Executive Officer,
Leo Burnett
Tim has been working in advertising for 18 years.
In the middle of 2004, Australia beckoned and Tim headed to George Patterson Partners Sydney as Managing Partner to run their enormous Telstra business and the new business effort. He was made Managing Partner for the entire office soon after. Once the agency was sold to WPP in August 2005 Tim was responsible for leading the merger of the George Patterson and Y&R Sydney operations. He then resigned to “let the new guys do their thing.”
Tim re-joined Leo Burnett as the Managing Director of their Sydney office in February 2006 and was appointed CEO in early 2007.
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Mr Tom Cotter,
TVNZ
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 Mr Nick Cummins,
Founder & Creative Director,
Sputnik Agency
After studying Graphic Design and Majoring in Advertising at Monash University Nick worked for 11 years for some of Melbourne’s major advertising agencies such as J. Walter Thompson, Grey and Young and Rubicam as a main stream Art Director. He produced award-winning work for local and international brands in traditional medias such as T.V, radio and print.
In 1999 Nick left mainstream advertising and started an online agency, Sputnik. Digital advertising was in its infancy in ‘99 in Melbourne and Nick was excited about the potential of this medium. From what he could see it had few of the limitations of the traditional media he used to work in.
After starting the company with one other person (Tim Homewood), Nick has grown his agency into one of Australia’s leading digital agencies. With a staff now of 40 and a client list of national and international brands such as Miele, Cadbury Schweppes, Seek and RACV, Sputnik is enjoying a reputation for its creativity, ground breaking solutions and fresh approach to solving communication issues. The future is exciting.
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Mr Patrick Delany,
Executive Director of Content, Product Development and Delivery,
Foxtel
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Mr Dean Dezius,
Channel Manager,
Foxtel Mobile & On Demand
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 Mr Tony Faure,
Chief Executive Officer,
Ninemsn
Tony Faure joined ninemsn in August 2006 bringing with him more than twenty years experience in both traditional and new media industries.
He began his career in business magazine publishing and in 1997 became the first employee and General Manager of Yahoo! Australia and NZ.
Tony was appointed Yahoo! Regional Vice President, South Asia in 2001 and then left the company in 2002 to pursue other investment opportunities in Australia.
Since 2002 he has been an active promoter of early-stage internet companies, founding online DVD rental company HomeScreen Entertainment in 2003, which was sold to the listed Quickflix in 2005. He has served as an advisor to the boards of both Seek.com.au and online advertising company, One Digital.
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 Mr Dan Fill,
Head of Multiplatform Content,
ABC
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 Mr Tim Flattery,
Director of Content,
Mitchell Communications
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 Mr Richard Freudenstein,
Chief Executive Officer,
News Digital Media
Mr Freudenstein is responsible for the rapid growth of News Digital Media’s operations encompassing the existing websites along with new businesses spanning internet, mobile, broadband and other emerging technologies.
Mr Freudenstein is chairman of realestate.com.au Ltd and a director of The Bell Shakespeare Company.
Mr Freudenstein joined the business in October 2006 after seven years at British Sky Broadcasting (Sky), the last six as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Sky, Mr Freudenstein worked in a number of senior roles at FOXTEL in Australia.
During his time in the United Kingdom, Mr Freudenstein served as chairman of the Royal Television Society, chairman of Nickelodeon UK and as a director of the English National Ballet.
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Mr Guy Gadney,
General Manager of Digital Services,
PBL Media
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 Mr Adam Good,
Executive Director of Digital Innovation,
Clemenger Communications
Adam is the Executive Director of Digital Innovation for Clemenger Group, Australia and New Zealand's leading communication company. Adam has over eighteen years experience with the interactive, online, television, film and advertising industries. Prior to joining Clemenger Group, Adam was one of the founding members and the President of Asia Pacific for Tribal DDB Worldwide, working and living in Australia and China during his eight years with the Interactive agency.
Adam led his agency to 'back to back' Adnews Interactive Agency of the year titles in 2004 and 2005 as well as developed award winning and effective Interactive programs for Unilever, McDonalds, Philips, HSBC, PepsiCo, Volkswagen and Disney in several Asia Pacific markets.
Adam has also delivered several keynote speaking sessions at conferences in Australia, China, Korea, Singapore and Japan.
Adam in the 1990's was an Executive Producer at News Interactive, the online division of News Limited where he established Australia's premier sports site AFL.com.au and Australia's leading national news and information sevice NEWS.com.au.
Prior to News Limited, he was a Senior Producer at Microsoft Australia producing a wide range of entertainment and information based content.
Adam also spent six years in the Australia film and television industry working across film, television, music videos and advertising.
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 Mrs Melissa Goodwin,
Head of Mobile,
ITV
Melissa Goodwin joined ITV in 2006 from her previous role as Vice President Interactive and Telephony FremantleMedia Enterprises. As Head of Mobile, Melissa leads ITV’s mobile strategy and is responsible for growing new revenues from this platform for ITV.
Melissa’s core strategic activities include the ongoing commercial development of ITV’s mobile portal, maximising distribution of ITV’s content across operator portals, mobile TV, user-generated content and mobile advertising. Melissa is accountable for shaping and directing ITV’s mobile content play, working closely with stakeholders across the business from production to ad sales to build upon our success in mobile to date
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 Mr Ben Heuston,
Digital Development Director,
Emap
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 Mr Brendan Hopkins,
Chief Executive Officer,
APN News and Media
Brendan Hopkins is Chief Executive Officer of APN News & Media Ltd, listed in both Australia and New Zealand. It is the leader in regional newspapers, radio and outdoor and owner of the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand’s largest metro newspaper.
He is a Non-Executive Director of Independent News & Media PLC, Patron of the European Australian Business Council, President of The British Vascular Foundation, a Freeman of The City of London and a Governor of The Australian Ireland Funds.
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 Mrs Rebecca Horne,
General Manager - Fox Interactive Media,
MySpace
Rebekah Horne launched MySpace Australia as its Marketing and Content Director and is now at the helm of this thriving popular culture phenomenon. In her current role as Gen-eral Manager for Fox Interactive Media Australia and New Zealand, Rebekah oversees the MySpace, IGN, Rotten Tomatoes and Ask Men sites.
Rebekah’s diverse career in interactive media and the music industry has provided her with the online and mobile marketing experience needed to run one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. A former record company executive, Rebekah was EMI’s Promotions and Marketing Manager before moving to Warner Music as Marketing Manager. Rebekah has also worked in digital media as Mobile Content Marketing Man-ager at Optus Mobile and online.
A well known name in the digital and music industries, Rebekah is also a sought after speaker on issues of new technology, interactive media, social networking and marketing.
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 Mr Matt Kossatz,
Managing Director,
IceTV
Matt Kossatz became General Manager of IceTV in 2006 after starting with the company in early 2005 as the Business Development & Marketing Manager.
IceTV is a leading independent provider of free-to-air TV guide listings in Australia for PC & Mac based media center products and Personal Video Recorders (PVR’s or DVR’s). Features include; ‘one touch’ recording via the onscreen IceTV Guide, automatic ‘series’ record and the ability to schedule recordings remotely via the web or mobile phone.
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 Mr Robert Leach,
Head of MCN Connect,
Multi Channel Network
Having worked in Advertising and Marketing on both the client and agency side for 10 years, Rob joined BSkyB as Client Sales Manager in September 1997.
He became Controller of Interactive Airtime Sales in September 2000, with the responsibility for creating and launching Sky’s ground-breaking interactive TV advertising services. Rob was responsible for assembling an interactive sales team from scratch and developing and implementing pioneering sales, pricing, and marketing strategies for this new service.
Rob was promoted to Head of Interactive Services for Sky Media in August 2003 with the additional remit of developing commercial models across all Sky’s digital media offerings.
In October 2006 Rob joined MCn in Sydney, the multi channel sales house for the Foxtel and Austar subscription TV platforms. He was appointed Head of MCn Connect, the newly formed department responsible for the strategic development and sales of all the new digital media on these platforms, including interactive advertising, online, mobile, VOD and IPTV.
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 Mrs Michele Levine,
Chief Executive Officer,
Roy Morgan Research
With over 20 years of experience in the field of research, Michele Levine has designed and implemented hundreds of surveys and research programmes. For the last 12 years as CEO of Roy Morgan Research, Michele has directed and been responsible for the quality of the research conducted at Roy Morgan Research.
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Mr Ben Liebmann,
Vice President - Australia & New Zealand,
Fremantle Media
Headquartered in the UK, FremantleMedia is one of the world's largest international creators and producers of entertainment brands.
Working with formats including Australian Idol, Neighbours, The Biggest Loser, and Australia’s Got Talent, Ben and his team are responsible for exploiting and developing FremantleMedia's properties off-screen in areas such as digital/interactive, licensing and sponsorship, participation television, home entertainment, and merchandising.
Prior to joining FremantleMedia in May 2007, Ben established himself as a leading digital media and content specialist, working with companies including Warner Music Group, Vodafone and Opera Interactive.
Ben holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Marketing and Business Economics from the University of NSW
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Mr Nigel Marsh,
Chairman,
Leo Burnett
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 Mr Jack Matthews,
Chief Executive Officer,
Fairfax Digital
Jack is the Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Digital, the online division of Fairfax Media. Fairfax Digital is responsible for Australia’s two leading online news sites, the smh.com.au and theage.com.au as well as leading classified sites in recruitment, automotive and real estate. Fairfax Digital sites attract over 6.5 million unique viewers per month.
Prior to his current position, Jack was COO and Representative Director of Jupiter Programming Company, a Tokyo based joint venture between Liberty Media and Sumitomo Corporation. Jupiter owns and operates 16 pay TV channels which reach over 24 million viewers.
Prior to Jupiter, Jack was CEO of the Premium Movie Partnership which creates and distributes Australia’s leading Pay TV movie channels, Showtime and Showtime Greats. Previous to that, Jack was CEO of TelstraSaturn, an integrated telephone, Pay TV and broadband company in New Zealand.
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 Mr Matthew Melhuish,
Chief Executive Officer,
BMF Advertising
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Mr Barry Melville,
General Manager,
CBAA
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Mr Harold Mitchell,
Chairman,
Mitchell Communications
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 Mr David Moody,
Managing Director - Digital Media and Director - Strategy and Business Development,
BBC Worldwide
David Moody joined the BBC Worldwide Board as Director of Strategy and Business Development (now called Digital Media) in December 2004. He is responsible for the ongoing development of BBC Worldwide's strategic direction, as well as the development of video on demand, web distribution and mobile activity, BBC Motion Gallery, the archive clips sales business and the launch of the two key consumer facing websites for BBC Worldwide: bbc.com and the commercial media player.
David joined the BBC in May 2002 as Commercial Director for the BBC Ventures Group (the former umbrella name for the BBC's commercial media services division, which included BBC Broadcast, BBC Resources, BBC Technology and Kingswood Warren Ventures).
David led for the BBC the sale of BBC Technology part of the recent outsourcing deal with Siemens. More recently, David managed the BBC's Commercial Review, under the overall leadership of John Smith.
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 Mr Ian Smith,
Chief Executive Officer,
Yahoo!7
Ian Smith was appointed chief executive officer of Yahoo!7 in June 2006. In this role Ian is charged with leading a media company that provides Australians who visit www.yahoo7.com.au with the best online entertainment, information and communications experience, and advertisers with the greatest value.
Prior to joining Yahoo!7, Ian has an impressive track record of more than twenty years in the advertising market. He was chief executive officer of The Communications Group Limited, which owns 13 advertising, marketing, technology and communications companies in Australia and New Zealand.
Ian was also president of international for Bates Worldwide where he worked from New York and grew revenue in Asia and Europe by more than US$800 million in the first two years.
Before joining Bates Worldwide, Ian was the chairman and chief executive officer of Ccg.Xm, an e-business and interactive marketing division of Cordiant Communications PLC, of which he was the Asia Pacific president.
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 Mr Damian Smith,
General Manager - Digital Media,
Network TEN
Damian Smith joined TEN in July 2006 as General Manager, Digital Media. From 1998 until 2004, he held various roles with NASDAQ-listed search engine, LookSmart, including CEO in 2004.
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 Mr Chris Smith,
General Manager - Online Search & Directories,
Sensis
Chris Smith is responsible for Sensis Online Search & Directory Solutions, including yellow.com.au and sensis.com.au. Chris’ portfolio also includes the 1234 and 12456 voice services and Australia’s leading mapping and navigation brands - UBD, Gregory’s and Whereis®.
Chris has been with Sensis since 1996. Prior to his current role, Chris was Managing Director of Location Publishing at Sensis, and was instrumental in developing Whereis® into one of the fastest-growing and most profitable parts of the Sensis business.
Chris has over 20 years experience in the internet, database, and mapping industry, and has worked for a variety of organisations including the United Nations, Computer Sciences Corporation and several universities in the United States.
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 Mrs Robbee Spadafora,
Client Services Director,
Seven Network
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 Mr David Spence,
Chief Executive Officer,
Unwired
David Spence is CEO of wireless broadband provider Unwired Australia. Since joining Unwired in January of 2004 David has grown the company from a handful of employees to one of the worlds largest Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) portable wireless broadband carriers, servicing in excess of 40,000 customers in the greater Sydney region.
David is well known in the internet/communications industry both in Australia and New Zealand. His breadth of experience, management style and vision for the future has seen him rise to the top of his profession.
Prior to Unwired David held various executive and board positions at; Deloittes, Faber-Castell, Australian Consolidated Press (ACP), Freedom Furniture, OzEmail, UUNET Australia, OPSM, Vertical Markets, Access 1, Emitch and WebCentral.
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 Mr Stuart Spiteri,
Director - Asia-Pacific,
Akamai Technologies Inc
Stuart is the Director of Asia-Pacific for Akamai Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Over 2,000 customers rely on Akamai to deliver their content and applications — getting more value out of their Web businesses at less cost. Akamai serves content for 5 of the top 6 online music sites, and 29 of the top 30 media/entertainment companies globally.
Stuart leads Akamai’s Asia-Pacific operations, headquartered in Singapore and is responsible for sales, account management, technical and professional services. Key media customers in Asia-Pacific include ANYTIME TV, CCTV, China International Publishing Group, CNN IBN TV18, ESPN Star Sports, Fairfax, Golden Village, MCM Entertainment, NDTV, News Digital Media, Rediff, Singapore Press Holdings, Samsung, Times of India and Vividas.
Stuart was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of 24/7 Media Asia, a pan regional joint venture between 24/7 Media of the US and Hong Kong internet leader, Chinadotcom (NASDAQ: CHINA). Prior to this Stuart led the Asia-Pacific conference business of The Economist Group, which worked with senior leaders of MNCs in Asia Pacific, providing insights and experiences to the companies operating in the region.
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Mr Russell Stendell,
Head of Radio Development,
ABC
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 Mrs Vanessa Stoykov,
Chief Executive Officer,
Evolution Media
Vanessa Stoykov is a leading financial services strategist and a highly sought-after expert commentator on business and communications issues facing financial services organisations.
As the CEO and Strategy Director of evolution media, Vanessa has helped an array of international brands to increase their presence and market share in Australia, among them ABN Amro, ANZ, Macquarie Bank, SunCorp, Fidelity Investments, BNP Paribas, E*Trade, UBS Investment Bank, and Deutsche.
Vanessa is also the founder and host of Australia’s first internet television slivercast to the financial services industry, The Mastermind Series. She leads a series of weekly in-depth interviews with industry thought leaders on the show.
Her agency is now developing branded content across digital and traditional formats for a Big 4 bank and a billion dollar super fund, among other clients. evolution media is considered to be at the forefront of digital innovation in communication for the financial services industry.
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 Mrs Georgie Summerhayes,
Chief Executive Officer,
Brand New Alliance
Georgie Summerhayes has just returned to Australia after 20 years in the UK. She spent her first 15 years in the entertainment business as commercial director for various record companies and then joined Simon Fuller at 19 to help develop entertainment properties such as the S Club 7 and Pop Idol franchises. This experience honed Georgie’s specialist skills at creating multi-platform properties across events, music, film, TV programming and talent.
She joined Omnicom to start their brand entertainment offering, Stream in 2001. As President of Stream, she developed various successful brand entertainment strategies for brands including Orange, Playstation, Nissan, and Eurostar.
She left Stream, now Europe’s leading brand entertainment specialist, to come back to her home to start Brand New Alliance. Brand New Alliance uses the learnings of the European and US experience to create unique brand entertainment for the Australian market.
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 Mr Adrian Swift,
Director of Television,
etv UK
Adrian heads up etv’s creative team as well as overseeing key Digital TV, broadband and mobile projects, including Thomas Cook TV, advertiser funded programmes for ITV and five as well as Thomas Cook Broadband and 3’s mobile TV services.
He began his media career as a newspaper journalist before becoming one of Australia’s top executive producers for major lifestyle and sporting programmes. While at Channel Nine, Adrian was the founding producer of Australia’s number one travel programme “Getaway”. Under his stewardship, the programme won many awards and was sold to 14 countries, gaining an international audience of over 100 million.
As well as producing several international outside broadcasts, including the Australian Grand Prix, Adrian launched Australia’s first commercial television website - a site which ultimately became NineMSN Expedia in Australia.
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 Mr Damien Tampling,
Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Group Leader,
Deloitte
Damien is a Partner in Deloitte’s Corporate Finance Advisory group – a highly specialised team able to advise on every type of transaction including mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, disposals, project and structured finance, capital raisings and the sale (and valuation) of non-tangible assets such as media rights.
Damien’s particular specialisation is in media, digital media and technology, stemming from extensive experience in this area.
Prior to joining the Corporate Finance team, Damien led Deloitte’s technology practice in Sydney.
Some of Damien’s clients include BBCW, Sky Sport, News Corp, SBS, Telstra and Fairfax Digital.
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Dr Duane Varan,
Executive Director,
Itri
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 Mr Christopher Walton,
Chief Executive Officer,
Mindshare
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 Mrs Joan Warner,
Chief Executive Officer,
Commercial Radio Australia
Joan Warner took the role of Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Radio Australia in July 2001. She has experience at the most senior levels of the public and private sectors across a range of industries and policy areas such as legal and financial services, education and training, tourism, employment and fast moving consumer goods. Recently she led the industry’s complex and intensive lobbying effort which resulted in the Federal Government’s policy announcement for digital radio. Ms Warner has held executive roles at Phillips Fox lawyers, Australian Centre for Global Finance, George Weston Foods and Telstra, and also advised Ministers and Opposition spokespeople at State and Federal level on a range of areas. She holds four degrees including an MBA and a Master of Education.
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 Mr David Willington,
Partner, Corporate Finance Advisory,
Deloitte
David is a partner in Deloitte's M&A advisory group in Sydney and specialises in providing corporate and strategic advice.
David has 15 years of direct experience in providing advice to major corporates in relation to business acquisitions, divestments, takeovers and capital raisings. David advised on many transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector having previously been a senior investment banker at N M Rothschild & Sons in their TMT group.
David joined Deloitte in 2002, holds a bachelor of Commerce, is a Chartered Accountant and is a Fellow of FINSIA
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