Kiel is the Founder and Managing Director of Dean and Cooper, a leading Gold Coast boutique accounting and bookkeeping business who focus is on providing their clients with the data and resources to effectively run and understand their business.

Having been raised and educated on the Gold Coast, and establishing his own business, Kiel understands the importance of creating, driving and inspiring our next generation of leaders and professionals to develop a shared city agenda.

Kiel is passionate about providing a city wide professional ecosystem which retains locally educated professionals whilst also attracting leaders and businesses from interstate to work and establish their businesses on the Gold Coast.

Nicole is a qualified and registered urban planner passionate about our city. She is currently Senior Planning Advisor to the Director of Planning and Environment at City of Gold Coast.

Previously, Nicole was a founding director of a local planning consultancy firm, experienced in managing large development projects from inception through the approvals phase. Nicole was also previously Director of a small development company.

Nicole is the Queensland Vice President of Planning Institute of Australia. And a committee member of Regional Development Australia Gold Coast chapter.

Georgia is an account manager at one of the Gold Coast’s leading public relations companies, Ruby Communications. She loves developing out-of-the-box ideas for her clients and using her creative abilities to help brands stand out from the crowd. The city’s friendly and laidback culture is what drew her to the Gold Coast more than eight years ago and she cannot think of a more diverse and exciting place to call home. Georgia is looking forward to seeing the Gold Coast grow and flourish in the coming years.

Todd Matheson is part of the McGrath Projects team for South East Queensland, specialising in Project Management, property acquisitions and amalgamation and site sales. He brings to McGrath, almost 10 years of valuable real estate insight, providing a wealth of knowledge to his clients and an ongoing passion for the Gold Coasts growth and property market.

As a director of Gold Coast Leaders, Sean gets to work with dynamic company and industry leaders who share the desire to see businesses succeed. He is also part of the Gold Coast Hub leadership team,driving communications and marketing.

Melissa is a Senior Associate at Rose Litigation Lawyers. In Melissa’s role, she regularly deals with property matters, corporate and partnership disputes, building and construction litigation. Melissa has also been involved in cases involving minor debt disputes through to multimillion-dollar Supreme Court litigation.

Melissa is a born and bred Gold Coaster considers herself lucky enough to have seen the rapid growth and transformation of our city. Melissa firmly believes that for too long, decisions have been dictated by those who do not truly understand what our city wants and needs. Melissa is eager to see our organisation facilitate the opinions of young Gold Coasters and to take those opinions to our city leaders to actually advocate for change.

Edmond Krecsik is the Leasing Associate for the Precision Group, which is a Sydney based property Investment Company. His role is to assist with the commercial leasing of the company’s Queensland based assets. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he moved to the Gold Coast late 2003 and completed his primary and secondary education. In 2015, he graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Law degree and currently studying a Master of Business Administration course.

Georgia is an Assistant Manager of the Private Enterprise Division at KPMG Gold Coast. She is a qualified CA with more than six years’ experience in public practice accounting firms, specialising in business and taxation services. Georgia graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Commerce (Accountancy Major) and a Bachelor of International Business.

Grace is a PR & Communications Consultant with Zakazukha Marketing Communications. With a background in public relations and marketing, Grace has specialised in implementing innovative marketing and communications strategies for businesses in the publishing and financial services industries. She has also provided voluntary PR and communications support to various cultural and creative initiatives on the Gold Coast. Grace graduated from Griffith University with Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management) and a Bachelor of Arts (Public Relations).

Shannon is the Chief Executive Officer for Study Gold Coast. She accepted the role in January 2014, following a 13 year career in the media industry. Study Gold Coast is a membership based not-for-profit organisation which seeks to raise the profile of the city’s education industry. Shannon will be working closely with education providers across the Gold Coast, including the city’s three universities, GCIT and a raft of regional training organisations. Shannon promotes the Gold Coast as a destination for study and research, both domestically and internationally and encourages collaboration to help the industry expand. Shannon was the chief reporter at the Gold Coast Bulletin covering issues from politics to social issues.