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Speakers for the 2010 National Conference include:

Mark Bouris
	Mark Bouris is an Australian businessman who is best known as the founder and chairman of 'Wizard Home Loans', Australia's largest non-bank mortgage lender. He began his career as a chartered accountant, then spent seven years at a small Sydney law firm specialising in structured finance deals throughout the '80s boom time. But the entrepreneurial and driven Bouris was never going to spend his whole career in professional services; by his early 30s he had established his own property development business. Mark Bouris came from humble beginnings and credits his parents George and Marsha Bouris with instilling in him the discipline and values that would propel him from the working-class Sydney suburb of Punchbowl to the boardroom of one of the world's largest companies. Mark launched Yellow Brick Road in 2007.

Frank Romano

Turning Point Corporation’s Managing Director and Principal Trainer, Frank Romano, is an internationally acclaimed, award winning, sales professional, and organisational development strategist who has addressed thousands of retail, customer service, management and sales teams in eleven different countries around the world. He has built a team of professionals to support him here in Australia, and around the globe.

Frank’s services have been contracted by many leading organisations including Nike International, and Saab Automobile, where he continues to be instrumental in the design, implementation, and training of the sales, management, and customer service cultures throughout the Asia Pacific and Middle East Regions.

John Runko

John Runko is the Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Property Group. He started with the company in 1986 as a salesman and has worked his way through the company structure to his current position.

John's sales results were always outstanding, but it was his strategic planning abilities that ultimately enabled him to reach the top of his profession.

John has always been very heavily involved in the sales and marketing of both new homes and developments and has worked very closely over the years with many of Canberra's most prominent builders and developers. He has been responsible for many of the developments that Independent Group has successfully marketed over the years, and taken these projects all the way from the conceptual stage through to marketing and ultimately construction.

Rik Rushton
	While still in his 20s, Rik Rushton had been appointed head trainer for the Australian Real Estate Network. Before he’d hit 30, he’d already received awards for "Excellence in Training" as well as a "Highly Commended Young Achiever Award” from his industry peers. By the mid 90s, Rik’s vision had been born: “To create a training company that could achieve a simple mission - to deliver the highest quality personal development programs empowering individuals to their next level in business and life!” Rik has achieved extraordinary things in his sales, leadership, business and training career. He’s been CEO of a highly awarded (and phenomenally successful) 8 office Real Estate Group, taking more than 50 staff to their next level, both as a group and as individuals.

Darren Hunter

Darren Hunter from darrenhunter.com is a national and international property management trainer, speaker and consultant specialising in the creation of marketing tools, points of difference, department websites, rent roll growth ,listing presentation sales skills, profitability and income maximisation, recruitment, systemisation as well as the entire property management process.

Darren has previously worked as state property manager with one of Australia’s most respected real estate brands recruiting, training, implementing policies and procedures and managing 28 property managers in 18 regional offices over South Australia and the Northern Territory.

In 2006 he wrote the national property management policies and procedures for the third largest rent roll in Australia.

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Speakers for the 2010 National Conference include:

Mark Bouris

Frank Romano

John Runko

Rik Rushton

Darren Hunter