Jack Delosa, Managing Director
From having his company listed in the Fastest 50 Start-Ups in Australia, to raising over $5m for his personal clients and acquiring businesses with his panel of investors, Jack Delosa is an emerging leader for future and existing entrepreneurs.
Jack’s focus is educating and developing a new breed of entrepreneur through his two business education institutions, The Entourage and MBE Education. Educating entrepreneurs where they are needed most, he also contributed to the development of the curriculum at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.
Jack has consulted for brands such as Microsoft, Virgin and CPA on the topic of business growth and performance. Today he is a spokesperson for entrepreneurship in Australia as a regular blogger for Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Start Up Smart, Dynamic Business Magazine and Australian Anthill. He has also been featured in BRW, Career One, Channel 9, Channel 10 News and Sunrise.
In recognition of his successes, Jack has been listed as one of the top 10 entrepreneurs under 30 in Australia in the Dynamic Business Young Guns, and three times in Australian Anthill’s 30Under30 Publication.
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Dominic Dirupo, Advisory Board
Dominic is the principal of Alphastation, a Corporate Communications Consultancy specialising in high-level business communication for SMEs.
Dominic was a Team Manager at Deutsche Bank in Global Corporate Finance working on debt and equity capital markets transactions and a Group Leader at Goldman Sachs International in Investment Banking Division for Europe, Middle East & Asia working on Mergers, Acquisitions and IPOs. Dominic has been directly involved in more than $3 billion dollars in transactions.
Today, Dominic specialises in helping high-growth companies with the strategy and documentation required to raise capital and exit.
Domenic Carosa, Advisory Board
Domenic floated Destra when he was 25, becoming Australia's youngest publicly listed CEO in Australian history. Domenic built Destra to annual revenues north of $100m, with Lachlan Murdoch as a shareholder.
Today Domenic heads up Future Capital Fund and invests into internet upstarts.
Future Capital Development FundStuart Cook, Entourage Trainer
Stuart Cook is the CEO of Australia's fatest growing franchise (BRW) as well as one of the youngest franchise CEOs. After being appointed the CEO of Zambrero fresh mex grill, just before his 24th birthday he has lead the company to a growth of 600% in the last 18 months now employing more than 170 people across the group. Stuart has set his sights to take Zambrero to 100 stores by 2014.
In 2011, Zambrero was listed as the fastest growing francise of the year in BRW. In 2010 Zambrero was the Social Responsible franchisor of the year, Mybusiness Magazine's Best Retailer and the ACT’s Emerging Entrepreneurial Company of the Year.
ZambreroAndrew Morello, Entourage Trainer
Andrew Morello is the Winner of The Apprentice. Andrew has been Running his own businesses since the age of 15. He now works with Mark Bouris at Yellow Brick Road Management.
Yellow Brick Road Wealth ManagementLiz Atkinson, Entourage Advisor
Liz Atkinson is one of Australia’s leading female social entrepreneurs. From moving to Australia as a backpacker in 2001, Liz has gone on to launch Zest Possibilities which houses a group of million dollar companies on an international stage. Combining her business acumen with social ventures, Liz and her team have raised millions of dollars for Australian & International charities.
Within a year of opening the doors in Melbourne in 2006, Liz had expanded to Sydney and by 2010 was an international operation with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington. Today Zest Possibilities has more than 80 people across the two continents and is a market leader in outsourced promotions, sales and marketing campaigns.
With a need to empower women to follow their passion, Liz is soon releasing Miss Entrepreneur, a book which aims to inspire more female entrepreneurship throughout Australia.
Johann Odou, Entourage Advisor
Johann Odou is co-founder of Vumero – a spreadsheet and financial modelling marketplace and freelancing community. Prior to Vumero, Johann worked at a boutique investment banking firm where he has been involved in over $35m of corporate transactions. He has worked across business development, operations and transactional execution.
Johann has business experience across a broad range of industries and has worked with companies specalising in aircraft component manufacturing, food manufacturing, resources and exploration, healthcare, UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) software development and technology.
Dave Fastuca, Entourage Advisor
COO of Locomote David manages concept development, visual design, branding and strategy implementation for all Locomote projects. As a specialised web user interface designer, David ensures Locomote produces rich, tactile, and appropriate creative with careful consideration for the most efficient coding implementation.
Ross Fastuca, Entourage Advisor
CEO of Locomote Ross manages the web development team, concept development, partner relationships & online strategy implementation for all Locomote projects. As a specialised UI/UX developer, Ross ensures Locomote produces powerful, scaleable and creative web applications built with the latest technologies in an ever changing online landscape.
Ben Carroll, Entourage Advisor
Earlier this year Ben was listed 25th in 'Fastest 50 Start-ups' by StartUpSmart and most recently received an Honourable Mention by Anthill in their 30Under30 Awards.
His first business venture started in 2007, Velflex, and rapidly grew to 8 full time staff providing digital garment printing for top level sporting bodies including the Wallabies, Basketball Aust and Sydney FC.
Previous to this Ben played a fundamental role in his home town Albury as it's 1st Youth Mayor, advocating for young people and providing a young voice in council decisions.
Beau Chase, Business Development Manager
Beau actively works with sales teams to increase their performance, providing sales advisory, and building long term relationships. He is always on the lookout for ways to add additional value to company client bases.
Beau has been interviewed on Channel 7’s Morning Show, and has worked with many of BRW’s Fast 100 Companies between 2007-2009; he also mentored a number of disadvantaged primary school students in entrepreneurship through the Club Kidpreneur program in 2011
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Ryan Boulton, Business Consultant
Establishing his first business straight out of high school , Ryan has consistently excelled in seeing the business opportunities all around him. As an avid networker, whilst at university Ryan was employed to design, improve, and implement student engagement strategies for Red Bull Australia, also working with them on their national campaigns such as F1, V8 Supercars, and Air Race.
Ryan was awarded membership to the international Golden Key honours society for his creation of a strategic repositioning plan for Krispy Kremes, and has consulted to several small businesses on marketing, strategic planning, and growth strategies.
Ryan also achieved record results in several hospitality venues throughout Sydney by applying his intuitive marketing flair. Ryan now works alongside Jack Delosa, one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs, and the creator of The Entourage, with the aim of building and improving Australia's largest educator and network of Entrepreneurs.
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