Raised in the Riverina Region of NSW, Dave Skow started his real estate career in 2001 and has held roles in sales and property management, franchise management and training for the Real Estate Institute New South Wales.

After opening Wagga Property Management as a sole operator in January 2014, Dave achieved phenomenal growth, listing over 900 managements in less than 5 years of operation.

In late 2018, Dave was given the opportunity to purchase the RE/MAX Elite office, a strategic acquisition and merger which has allowed for further rent roll growth, as well as the addition of a market leading sales team.

As Director of RE/MAX Elite, Dave now oversees the running of the entire operation, leading a team of property management and sales professionals, while still enjoying the continued growth of his business.

Passionate about business development & growth, Dave is also called upon regularly to impart his knowledge and experience to other operators and has presented at property management and real estate conferences and events across the country.

Hannah has worked in the industry since 2008 as a property manager, business development manager and currently as the Managing Director for Independent in Canberra.

In her four years in business development, Hannah listed over 1,700 properties and received award recognition at a state and national level, including REIACT Property Manager of the Year twice, REIA Property Manager of the year in 2014, LPMA’s Excellence in Business Development in 2014 & 2015 and Excellence in Leadership in 2018.

Overseeing rent rolls across 2 different brands and managing a large team, Hannah is passionate about leadership, mentoring and professional growth. One to practice what she preaches, she has completed her Diploma in Leadership & Management, Cert IV in Training & Assessment and the Australian Institute of Company Directors course.

Hannah consults to agencies through her second business, Gill & Hooper, and speaks at conferences across Australia on topics of rent roll growth, goal setting, leadership, client experience, innovation, technology and property management best practice.

Sarah has become a well-known and respected face in the Australian Property Management world, having been personally nominated for the 2018 LPMA Leadership Excellence award. She and her team at Melbourne Property Managers successfully went on to win the award for Excellence in Innovation from LPMA on awards night in 2018. Sarah is a young go getter in the industry, with an eye for detail, a vision for innovative technology and a laser focus on working smarter, not harder. Having worked her way up through the business since 2011 and excelling at each point, Sarah took on the role of Company Leader in 2017 at Melbourne Property Managers, the youngest Leader in the company’s history. Since taking over Sarah and her team have turned the company upside down with the use of innovative technology, having implemented NPS, Trello, Virtual 360 Tours, Slack, Electronic Agreements and transferred to Cloud Based products as well as employing 3 VA’s.

Sarah is known for being refreshingly honest when sharing her case studies and won’t just share the triumphs but also the mistakes and pitfalls made along the way.

In the property industry, Kasey is synonymous with Property Management excellence. Having started her career in real estate industry in the late 1990s, she has gone on to become one of the most highly regarded Property Management Consultants across Australia, New Zealand and the US.

With a reputation built on professionalism and bottom-line results, she is trained in Best Practice Systems and can revolutionise and streamline internal property management procedures to encourage steady growth and better profitability. Kasey has introduced better practices, training and system implementation to more than 200 real estate offices around the globe.

Her ongoing support, training, auditing and re-structuring strategies promote increases to bottom-line profits and efficiencies in poorly performing offices. From her experience as a real estate business owner herself where she organically grew her rent roll from zero to 227 in 3 years, and she has a thorough understanding of the key operations for any successful real estate business.

Kasey has the experience and results to equip business owners with the tools they need to efficiently run their real estate business for better future profitability. As the director of the Property Management Training Academy, Kasey assists some of the country’s leading real estate groups and is a sought-after keynote speaker both here and abroad including New Zealand and the USA.

Commentator, agitator, and innovator, Sarah Bell is a co-founder of the proptech startup AIRE, Artificial Intelligence for Real Estate. She helps real estate businesses to solve the problems of cost and scale by upskilling existing resources as well as helping them transition to digital resources using AIRE’s digital employee, RITA.

With a decade of front-line experience as a real estate practitioner and agency owner, Sarah brings tactical insights, subject matter expertise and just enough street cred to create business solutions that are intelligent by design and Cx obsessed.

Author, analyst, researcher, strategist, project designer, and nerdtrepreneur, Sarah is also Mum to three human children and the clever little robot named RITA. In her spare time, Sarah volunteers her skills to the RISE and Revive Projects – industry initiatives that build a better industry through community. She has a strong preference for dogs over cats, if pushed on the subject.

Suzannah Toop is Chief Executive Officer at Toop&Toop Real Estate. Having worked at AMP Capital in property funds management in Sydney, she returned to Adelaide in 2012 and commenced working in her family business, Toop&Toop Real Estate.

Toop&Toop is widely acknowledged as the leading independent real estate agency in South Australia. Since starting in 1985, they have set the standards not only in the real estate industry for innovation, marketing and communications but have also been recognised outside of the industry for outstanding customer service, quality assurance and business excellence.

Fast-forward to today, Toop&Toop was recognised as Australia’s #1 Real estate Agency in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

During her time as CEO at Toop&Toop, Suzannah was admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of NSW in 2016 and co-founded real estate software company, Virtual Agent with her sister Genevieve Toop in 2017.

Ash entered the realestate industry at 18 years of age. After a rocky start with an uncertain future, Ash persevered to established himself as a top performing agent at both a local independent and franchise agency.

His passion for innovation and customer experience inspired him and business partner Lilly Iuculano to take the plunge and in Feb 2012 they opened the doors to Ash Marton Realty. The business has since grown to house a solid team of 16 with a culture like no other. In late 2016 the pair purchased a creek side CBD residence with a vision to transform the space into “one of Australia’s most innovative lifestyle offices”.

A strong focus on innovative and bold marketing is attributed to the brands success and reception from their community.

Tameka is recognized as Australia’s number 1 property manager by the Real Estate Institute of Australia. An experienced and professional Property Manager with over 15 years industry experience. Tameka loves to create new and exciting ways to show off your property to the world, from 360 videos to Virtual Reality, there is no where your property cant be found. Tameka takes a proactive not reactive approach to managing property assets.

Tameka has a fresh approach to all aspects of property management with the potential for evey investor to become a client for life. Tameka is a keen investor herself and understands firsthand the pressures of being an investment property owner and is well-versed in meeting the expectations of both tenants and investors.

In addition to her experience, Tameka has a plethora of personal achievements including, Residential Property Manager (REIA) 2019, Residential Property Manager (REIT) 2017 & 2018, Presidents Award (REIT) 2018 and many others.

Samantha is the joint owner and Managing Editor of Elite Agent and a two-time winner of the prestigious Mumbrella Publish award for Business Editor of the year. A sales and marketing professional with more than 20 years’ experience (and a sales coach in her own right) she has held senior management roles in the past for companies like Optus, Cisco, British Telecom and PwC.

As the driving force behind Elite Agent, she is a passionate campaigner for business publishers to have a positive impact on the communities they serve.

A career spanning across all facets of residential real estate for over 18 years, including more than 10 years as a Sales focussed Principal in the competitive Richmond apartment market, Michael has spent the past 8 years developing a reputation amongst the Property Management industry across Australia for his structured approach to “Property Management Agency Best Practice principles”.

Now as a full time “Property Management Trainer” & “Property Management Consultant specifically aimed at the agency Business Owners” under the banner – Rent Roll Maximiser, Michael’s passion is now to work directly with businesses Leaders to find solutions their pain points.

Most agency’s have the same pain points, irrespective of size, location, whether they have sales or PM only, independent or part of a franchise!

Michael has the privilege of working alongside some of the industry’s thought leaders and most innovative & progressive thinkers across Australia & New Zealand, and he helps agencies cope with the “today”, whilst planning & preparing for the “tomorrow”, whatever that looks like!

Melonie Taylor is the Chief Energy Officer and Author of Success on Purpose. In just 4 short years, Melonie has helped hundreds of professionals on the verge of burnout discover the easy ways of reclaiming balance and success in life. She is now a highly sought-after speaker on this topic.

As a Palliative Care Nurse for 20 years and through her own experience of burnout, anxiety and depression, Melonie learnt that it is not sustainable to keep giving without receiving. Productivity comes through alignment of strengths, values and having a clear focus and vision.

Melonie has a Bachelor of Applied Science/Health Promotion, Bachelor of Nursing, Specialist Certificate in Palliative Care from Melbourne University and is the winner of The Order of Malta Award with First Class Honours. Fourth year student of Metaphysics with Dr Rosemary Mccallum from Abundant Life Solutions and a student of the University of Life!