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OUR GUEST SPEAKER 

Anne-Marie Syme  - Ms Syme has extensive corporate management and business development experience within the banking and finance sectors and currently works, or has worked in Director and Executive capacities with several companies and organisations throughout Australia.  These include Insurance, Liquor, Information Technology, Human Resources and business and corporate coaching industries.

After a career with BankWest, Ms Syme opened Aussie Home Loans for John Symond in Western Australia and managed this business for a period of two years.  Ms Syme then started The Loans Café in 1998, pioneering the first retail/shopfront mortgage broking company in Australia. In March 2000, The Loans Café partnered with another broking company to form Finance & Systems Technology Pty Ltd (F.A.S.T.)  FAST is an aggregation company in the third party banking sector with funds under management totalling AUD $38 billion.  In September 2007, Ms Syme became the principal owner of FAST (81%) with the remaining ownership (19%) owned by James Packers Challenger.  Anne-Marie remained as Executive Chairman of F.A.S.T until the sale of her shares and those of Challenger Mortgage management to National Australia Bank in January 2010. 

Past achievements for Ms Syme include being first woman elected to the Western Australian Executive Council for the Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) in 1998 and being elected as the President of the MFAA in WA in October 2001and consequently resided on the national council for a period of four years.

Whilst President of the MFAA – WA Chapter, Ms Syme also served as a member of the Western Australian Regional Liaison Council of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for a period of three years.

Ms Syme is a current State Tribunal member of the MFAA’s COSL team which is a dispute resolution scheme dealing with misconduct in the third party banking sector.  Ms Syme is also the ‘industry expert’ chosen for the state of Western Australia on behalf to the MFAA dealing with clients that discover issues pertaining to conflicts within the broking industry that have not yet been formally lodged as a complaint with the Tribunal or the Banking Ombudsman.

In 2009, Ms Syme won an award for “Most Inspiring Woman of the Year – Business” and was presented this award in the presence of Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce – Governor General of Australia.

In April 2012, Ms Syme was only one of four Australians to be accepted into Harvard Business School to study ‘Leadership Best Practices’ a course attended by the world’s best CEO’s and business leaders.

Ms Syme is featured in several books - “Secrets of Inspiring Leaders Exposed”, “Leadership Revelations – An Australian Perspective” and most recently, “Leadership Revelations 2 – How Australians lead in Crisis”.  As a result Ms Syme speaks to many organizations on the topic of achieving success in the corporate sector, geo-politics, securitization best practices and other related topics.

ABOUT ENTREPRENEUR SOCIAL

We are a community dedicated to education and connecting people interested in entrepreneurship and social impact. Come along and connect with like-minded, purpose driven individuals who value collaboration and problem solving.

Get connected with your own Perth Entrepreneur Community at our inaugural Perth Entrepreneur Social event with a Guest Speaker soon to be announced.

So come and join us as we kick off our second social event learning how Entrepreneurs can get their message out to their audiences with more impact and authenticity!

What Is It? Perth Entrepreneur Social is the official Entrepreneurs Institute (Roger James Hamilton) monthly social event for entrepreneurs located in (or visiting) Perth. Each month we will invite successful entrepreneurs to feature as our guest speakers to share their stories, insights and learnings directly to you in an "in the chair style" interview and also short impactful "TEDx-style" presentations.

Who's It For? Our event's are open to all business owners, coaches, trainers, consultants, thought leaders, change makers, aspiring entrepreneurs and anyone else who is interested in business & entrepreneurship and would like to network in a relaxed social environment whilst learning from been there done that entrepreneurs with real world results and experience to share directly with you each month.

Who are Entrepreneurs Institute? Entrepreneurs Institute is a leading entrepreneur education group founded by Social Entrepreneur & Futurist, Roger James Hamilton. Roger is the creator of Wealth Dynamics (individuals) and Talent Dynamics (teams); the world’s number one business development pathways for accelerating trust and flow in an organisation and entrepreneurial business, used by over 250,000 people around the world. GeniusU is the worlds number one entrepreneur education platform, enabling you to find other entrepreneurs that align to your purpose, share your passions and complement your talents.

Perth Entrepreneur Social gatherings will be taking place every month throughout 2017, and every month we will be inviting different guest speakers to share their own stories and journeys of entrepreneurship. We hope these events inspire you to be your best and make a bigger impact on our global community.

We warmly invite you to come and join us for this special event!

Your host,

Terri Billington

TCB - Unleashing The Entrepreneur Within