Prof. Gordon Cooper

Gordon is a Chartered Accountant in sole practice as a Tax Consultant. Also, he is an Adjunct Professor at ATAX, in the Faculty of Law at the university of NSW and is a former President of the Taxation Institute of Australia. Gordon is a noted author of books and a loose-leaf service dealing with capital gains tax. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at conferences and a reguler contributor to professional publications.

 Chris Batten

Chris is a taxation specialist practicing from Beanbah Chambers, Macquarie Street, Sydney. The majority of his clients are accountants, lawyers and high wealth individuals. He specialises in tax and asset protection structures, stamp duty, superannuation and property investment and development. Chris is also the managing directors of Macquarie Group Services Pty Limited and a fellow member of the Taxation Institute of Australia. Chris has been responsible for exposing many of the flaws and anomalies in the tax, superannuation and investment legislation and showing practitioners how to navigate around these anomalies. - Back to top

 Paul Gerrard

Senior Advisor, Macquarie Group Services Pty Ltd. Paul has extensive experience as accountant and tax adviser in practice in both city and suburbs including small and medium sized practices. Paul's clients have included a diverse mix of clients and issues ranging from individuals through to listed and foreign-owned companies. Paul has had extensive dealings in superannuation, tax advisory and compliance work with an eclectic mix of industries, personalities and problems. Paul has skills in tax planning and coming up with innovative solutions to complex tax problems. Paul hosts some cpe.tv programs and provides cpe.tv with technical support. - Back to top

 Jo-anne Hotston

Jo-anne is a Fellow of the National Institute of Accountants and the Taxation Institute of Australia. She has a Masters Degree in Taxation from the University of Sydney. She has been providing high-quality tax training to accounting and legal firms since 1994. Jo-anne is a Chartered Accountant with many years' experience in taxation with Big-4 and medium-tier firms. She has also had extensive experience as a presenter in taxation matters, has been a regular presenter for the CPA, ICAA and TIA and has made a GST video and spoken on ABC radio and Business Essentials audio tapes. - Back to top

 Mark Wilkinson

Mark is currently Director of Wilkinson Super and has also been a Superannuation Partner with Deloitte Private. Mark was also a Superannuation Partner with PKF Accountants, who he joined in 1989 after having practiced as an accountant since 1983. Mark advises on retirement benefit strategies, designing superannuation audit programs and compliance issues. Mark also provides technical support to other accounting firms on a fee for service basis and superannuation advice to Solution 6 Ltd. Mark spent 5 years to 30 June 1999 as a Director and Compliance Manager of York Funds Management Ltd, where he was responsible for managing six Public Offer Funds with in excess of 40 000 members and $500 million in accumulated assets. His specialization is funds compliance, merging of funds (successor funds), winding up of funds, due diligence and service providers. - Back to top

 Chris Balalovski

Chris had worked at the Australian Taxation Office for 14 years in various technical roles and as a tertiary lecturer in revenue law. Chris holds Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Law and Master of Jurisprudence degrees, is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and a member of the Ratcliffe Society taxation discussion group.
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 David Smith

David is the Managing Director of Smithink, which focuses on professional firm management, strategy and process innovation. He is the strategic advisor to the national board of a mid-tier accounting firm and assists many other firms in their strategic planning and to create breakthoughs in processes, client service and profitability. For over 16 years, David was a partner at Pannell Kerr Forster Sydney, where he created a significant software business which was sold to Solution 6 (now part of MYOB), staying with them for 2 years. He is a regular speaker on topics relating to the future of the accounting profession, business strategy, process improvement and innovation, and has more than 25 years experience in professional firm management. He was the 2003 President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and was a director of The Institute from 1999 to 2004. - Back to top

Joydeep Hor

Joydeep is the Managing Principal of People + Culture Strategies. Joydeep holds a Master of Laws, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees, and is a Certified Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute. While Joydeep's practice is focused primarily on employment matters, he also has a particular expertise in EEO and anti-discrimination work and is experienced in more traditional "industrial relations" processes. Joydeep acted for Jessica Rowe in her highly-publicised legal dispute with Channel Ten and continues to act for her and other media personalities. Joydeep regularly presents seminar papers and has been widely published on employee relations issues. Joydeep is also an Editorial Board member for CCH's Employment and Safety publications. His expertise in presentations also sees him regularly conducting management training sessions for leading Australian businesses as well as prominent public sector employers. - Back to top

 Brian Egan

B.Comm LLM Tax Law(Sydney), BA. Brian is a leading authority on Income Tax and GST. Brian is a high profile Professional Member and Tax Author for Information Exchange. Brian Egan has more than 20 years experience in tax and law publishing, with Butterworths, Computer Law Services and LBC Information Services, and more than 10 years experience in writing on tax matters. Currently, he is the principal of Sirius Information Services, which provides research, writing and newsletter publishing services in the fields of taxation and corporations law to a range of clients. - Back to top

 John Morgan - Rodgers Reidy

Over his 20 years of corporate reconstruction and insolvency administrations, John has accumulated extensive business knowledge and developed outstanding negotiating skills. Combined with his innate eye for detail, he always gets the best results for all concerned in any given accounting situation - efficiently, effectively and equitably.

John has worked in the accounting, auditing and insolvency departments of some of the major international accounting firms. He was a Partner and National Insolvency Director at BDO for eight years, he spent four years as a Partner with PKF, and a further five years as a Partner and head of the insolvency division of a national accounting firm. - Back to top