Ian Sanders
Ian has held senior positions in finance with extensive experience in managing customer businesses. His responsibilities have included end-to-end businesses performance, development of strategy for specialization in finance as well as Board and Committee Chairmanship in Aged Care. Ian is passionate about building purpose based customer focused businesses and helping others to realize their potential. He has a B.Sc. (Hons) from London University, MBA from QUT, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Ian also serves as a Board Member of Uniting AgeWell, Victoria and Tasmania and The Early Learning Association of Australia.
Gus Nehme
Gus Nehme has held an array of jobs in various countries. He’s been the NSW Multicultural Senior Business Advisor (Department of Industry, CMRC).
Previously held positions:
General Manager ATI where he provided sales training, mentoring and coaching.Director of Sales for Al-Futtaim Group and Qatari Diar. There he worked on several projects which were in different countries. The value of these projects varied from half billion to several billions dollars each. An executive board member of Sotheby’s Real Estate (Qatar, Morocco, UAE and Egypt), a joint venture between Qatari Diar and the Wyndham Group.
Arie Moses
Arie has over 25 years' experience in working with small businesses, specially start-ups. Arie has also advised and supported the start-up of small businesses by recently arrived migrants and refugees. Arie has over 20 years workshop delivery experience in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Business Development. Arie has got over 20 years’ experience working with people assisting them into self- employment and served as the Chairperson of the National NEIS Association for 7 years.
Arie established and ran two successful businesses for a period of 12 years – one in Serviced Offices and Co-Working space and a Cheese/Dairy export business to Canada, Brazil and Chile. Arie is currently the State Manager for Thrive Refugee Enterprise, an organisation that provides micro finance loans to Refugee and Asylum Seekers
Industry specific experience: Food Export, Business Development, Strategic Planning. Arie has Business and Mediation qualifications.
Jane Carnegie
Jane has been working with small business start-ups for almost a decade, delivering and managing the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS) in Adelaide. Earlier on, a career with Austrade in Adelaide, Melbourne, Beijing, and Shanghai, assisting small and medium sized businesses to find viable export markets for their goods and services. Jane has also worked in the skilled migration area, and together with Regency College set up Chef Testing facilities throughout China and helped secure permanent residency in Australia for Chefs and Cooks under the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme. Jane is now South Australia's representative for Thrive and she is passionate about providing opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers to start their own business.
Eymie Prieto
Eymie is a marketing professional with a Bachelor’s specialising in business, communications, and marketing. She has worked in various places, starting off her career as an Executive Assistant for managers at Commander, has gained sales experience working at Apple, and marketing experience working at Toshiba Australia. Thrive has been her home for two years as she has always been passionate about helping others in the non-for profit sector.
Adrian Ruggerio
Prior to joining Thrive, Adrian has a held number of executive roles including with BP AMERICA as General Manager Operations, Strategy and Performance, as well as holding senior executive roles within the mobile telecommunications and construction industries. Adrian will be responsible for developing and maintaining corporate partnerships and business relationships nationally to ensure that our clients have the full benefit of a broad range of new business opportunities which emanate from these partnerships.
Paul Schwarze
Paul Schwarze is a Head of Credit.
Stephen Camage
Stephen has created a career across the different streams within Risk and Compliance. His experience has been gained across Fund Managers and Custodians and he has held important Management Positions in high-performing teams. Stephen holds both a Bachelors and a Masters in Economics.
Jessica Vuong
Jessica is currently studying for a Bachelor of Commerce and Law and has a marketing background. She has started her career as a Marketing Intern and worked her way up to a Marketing Coordinator at The Social Media Network (TSMN). She has gained more experience as a Marketing Executive at the VIP Sydney, and gained customer service experience at Datacom. She has always been passionate about working in a non-profit organization!
Bell Purevdorj
Bell Purevdorj has been working for TRE as a Business Development Intern since September 2019. Bell undertook an internship with Thrive for 6 months, then continued working as a business
volunteer until the end of August 2019.
Previously held positions:
Worked as an assistant lecturer, lecturer and senior lecturer, head of Economics Department for the University of Finance and Economics, Mongolia for almost 10 years.Used to teach economics and finance units.
Karthik Banala
Karthik Banala is the Business Development Officer for Thrive. His role is to meet new and existing clients to have discussions about their business endeavours and to create a viable Business Plan and Cashflow which helps them to start and expand their businesses in Australia.
Prior to Joining the team in 2019, Karthik holds an MBA in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Western Sydney University.
You can contact him on kbanala@tre.org.au