Darren Musilli is the CEO of Apple Marketing Group and chief host for this evening. His team at Apple Marketing Group, put simply, Raise Money!   Locally, $8.9M has been raised for charities on the Gold Coast ranging from medical, social, research and disability providers. But wait there’s more! In QLD $92.5M has been raised. And the tally keeps on rising to $459M over 30 years. The team at Apple engage, listen, advocate and deliver successful campaigns like raffles, bequests & regular giving, event and community doorknocking campaigns. Our partners stay with us for 10 years and you will too. You can visit them at applemarketing.com.au.

Geoff Davey is the General Manager of Gold Coast-based Pronto Direct. Pronto Direct has been operating for over 25 years and more recently have proudly partnered with not-for-profits to create DM campaigns that attract new donors and target existing donors more effectively, focusing on testing data and providing multi-channel campaign support.

Meredith Dwyer is the leader and Chair of Queensland FIA Committee and sits on the national Board of FIA. She is a Director of Homemade Digital Australia. Her fundraising experience spans small start-up organisations to multi-million-dollar operations; and from marketing, fundraising and strategic planning to the creation and management of innovative health, welfare and development programs. She describes herself as a fundraising strategist and joins us to predict the fundraising future in 2019.

Tina Hay is an Online Marketing and Social Media Expert. With a background in Sales and Marketing spanning back to 2001, Tina saw the need for Marketing and Social Media for Small to Medium Business and NFP. She set up her boutique marketing agency, Direct Marketing Solutions (DMS), in 2010 and hasn’t looked back since. Tina’s background includes working in UK, USA and now Australia, where she enjoys working with the NFP sector and SME enterprises.