engineroom design co. is a marketing studio based in Lake Macquarie offering services in the areas of branding, packaging design and web design. Their experience spans both local and international briefs for a diverse range of clients across various sectors.
engineroom’s passion is working with clients to unearth the unique and build a brand that is distinguished in the market place. The team harnesses a fussless approach. There is no jargon, just big agency expertise clients can count on in a smaller, nimbler, more affordable and accessible model.
Bec Webber is known for her no-fuss and results-driven approach when it comes to working with her clients. Since opening engineroom design co. back in 2008, her goal has been to be the agency provider of choice – with a big agency feel, without big agency fees. Her clients rave about her willingness to collaborate,…
The Eye Place was an aspiration of Adam and Anna’s for over five years. They wanted to build a business of their own and felt they could combine their skills to make a great Optometry Practice. The idea was born over a weekend in Singleton visiting Adam’s family. Talking about what each of them wanted to do with their careers and where they ultimately wanted to settle - an Optometry Practice in Singleton seemed ideal.
Since opening in 2015, The Eye Place has gone from strength to strength and surpassed both Adam and Anna’s expectations in more ways than one. They have built a strong family-owned and operated business, that continues to strive for excellence in optometry, eyewear and customer service. Their product focus is predominantly prescription lenses, optical frames, sunglasses and contact lenses, along with offering general and urgent eye examination services.
Adam Maher has been a Singleton local his entire life, only moving away to complete his degree in Optometry. While studying he worked as a Dispenser’s Assistant, which gave him invaluable training and insight into his chosen field of Optometry. After completing his Bachelor of Optometry and receiving the Neville Fulthorpe Award for Clinical Excellence,…
DSI Underground is Australia’s largest manufacturer and supplier of specialist strata reinforcement and support products to the Coal and Metalliferous underground mining and tunnelling sectors.
Keeping in line with their strategy "Local Presence - Global Competence", they have over 2,000 employees worldwide with operations across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.
DSI Underground’s offering goes well beyond supplying secondary support to the mining and tunnelling industries, firmly believing they are equally involved in the safety industry. DSI Underground doesn’t simply offer a high quality and innovative product offering, but also the knowledge, skills and expertise of the technical service and support representatives, priding themselves on being the leaders and go-to people for technical support in the industry
Derek Hird has over 25 years of experience in the mining industry, which is how he came to his role as the Regional Chief Executive Officer of DSI Underground. His 22 years with the company saw him try his hand at the technical department, sales and various senior management positions, to crescendo to the CEO…
Ethos Health is a leader in workplace and clinical services including physiotherapy, exercise physiology, dietetics, fatigue management, pre-employment assessments and health and wellbeing programs.
Established in 2008, Ethos Health has a team of about 20 highly experienced and skilled health professionals in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Sydney.
Trent Watson is the CEO of Ethos Health, a Hunter-based company that is a leader in workplace and clinical services including physiotherapy, exercise physiology, dietetics, fatigue management, pre-employment assessments and health and wellbeing programs. As a Dietitian, Trent also specialises in fatigue management and uses new and emerging technologies to work with businesses to design…
PKF Australia is a group of like-minded, award-winning, mid-tier accounting and business advisory firms, tailoring their service and solutions focused on your needs.
PKF Australia firms are members of the PKF International Limited (PKFI) network of legally independent firms. Their family consists of over 400 offices, operating in 150 countries across five regions.
In Australia, PKF offers clients the expertise of more than 94 Partners and 750 staff, across audit, taxation and specialist advisory services.
Andrew Beattie is a passionate business advisor, innovator and entrepreneur and is a great believer that we should all be on a path of continued improvement. As well as being a Partner at PKF, he is a husband and a father of three, a confidante, a mentor, a networker, an investor, a sometimes lecturer, a…
Cheeky Investor is an online financial education platform that eliminates the formality and boring side of money. The highly engaging content is short, sharp, to the point and designed for everyday people.
This approach has seen the company hit over 80,000 video views and over 1,200 hours of their content watched in a few short months.
Phil Usher is the Founder of Cheeky Investor, an online financial education site targeted for millennials. He is also a successful business advisor, mentor and professional speaker who promises to share the secrets and strategies of the most successful people from across the globe with clients, so they too can build wealth. He has a…
The The Village of Useful is an advertising, marketing, digital technology agency. We are based in Newcastle, but work with clients in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The Village was founded on two principles; firstly, be more village-like, be friendly and collaborate well with others. The second principle is helping our clients be more useful to their customers. Being useful to customers, we believe, is the pursuit all great companies demand of themselves constantly.
We help clients explore their inner useful with digital and traditional advertising and communications.
Emma Levine is head of Client Services at Newcastle consultancy, The Village of Useful, and has her fingers in a plethora of pies across the region. She is the Founder of Seventy30 (a networking group for women in marketing and communications), a general member of the Octapod Board and occasional Party Leader at 80s dance…
Doyle Partners is a boutique firm of accounting professionals passionate about advising our quality and well-established client base of privately held businesses and family groups.
We value personal relationships as paramount and respect the position of responsibility granted to us by our clients.
Our focus is to deliver strategic business, taxation and structuring outcomes and we are proud to act as our clients' trusted advisers.
Justin Doyle established Doyle Partners 10 years ago as he wanted to provide local businesses and individuals with a personalised approach to accounting. His goal is to earn a trusted adviser relationship with clients based on the delivery of strategy and solutions. Justin is passionate about being involved in the local community, participating in a…
Amanda Gascoigne’s big why is to help accounting practice owners have better accounting practices and better lives. She uses her background in accounting to share her strategies and secrets of success with fellow small and solo accounting practice owners around Australia as a consultant, mentor and coach.
Amanda will guide you in transforming your practice so that you have time to do the work you love with the clients you love, with a team that live and breathe your vision while embracing technology.
Amanda Gascoigne confesses to not being your typical accountant, nor has she followed the conventional path. Tossing up between being a textiles and design high school teacher, a fashion designer or an accountant, she chose the latter and fortunately she has managed to shrug off the stigma of being a boring bean counter! With ambitions…
Enigma is a nationally recognised creative experience agency with headquarters in Newcastle. They deliver ideas with grit. They’re ideas that work hard for you, your brand, your business. Enigma focuses on the creative experience – the sweet spot where idea, creative expression and channel combine to capture the attention and fire imagination. They live by their values of heart, respect, honesty and transparency - they drive their culture. It inspires their team to be nimble, curious, smart, and above all, collaborative.
A University of Newcastle alumni, Brendan Swansborough joined Enigma – a creative experience agency – as Senior Account Director in 2016 to work on a selection of key accounts. Before making the journey back to Newcastle, Brendan was involved in a slew of internationally recognised campaigns, including two consecutively number one ranked NFL Superbowl ads…