MEET YOUR GURUS
KYLIE DAVIS
Kylie Davis is recognised as a leading expert on Australian proptech. She is a researcher, speaker, data and marketing narrative expert who specialises in the real estate and proptech landscape. Her expertise is as a hands on tactical and content marketer who is able to think strategically and execute practically to help businesses scale and grow their businesses quickly.
With 25 years media experience as a senior editor at Australia’s biggest media companies, and five years in ‘big data’, Kylie’s superpower is her ability to deliver walk into unknown situations, identify key issues, ask pertinent questions and then articulate coherent narratives about what is going on and what needs to be done.
As the founder and president of the Proptech Association of Australia, she also has an extensive network of contacts in the proptech and aligned industries, and regularly presents on proptech, AI, future trends driving the rea estate and property industries, and mental wellness.
Rik Rushton
The Communication Coach, Author of The Power of Connection
MARK HOLLANDS
Mark is an experienced media executive who has extensive experience across Australia’s newsrooms, global technology advisory businesses, and not-for-profit member associations.
Mark has held roles including foreign editor and computer editor at The Australian newspaper, head of Asia Pacific research Gartner, head of sales at Dow Jones and CEO of the News Works Media Association.
Mark has a global reputation for his expertise in research, reputation management and communication. He has built global sales teams in the technology industry, is an expert crisis manager and is a passionate advocate for connected communities.
Brad Inman
CEO - Inman Connect
PAULA SHEARER
Paula is an experienced editor and communications executive with decades of senior leadership experience in journalism, corporate communications, marketing, community engagement and public relations roles.
Paula is a talented conceiver, planner and creator of incredible content who runs content schedules like a well-oiled machine. She was Editor of The Courier-Mail Home magazine and Real Estate Editor at Quest Newspapers and the Gold Coast Bulletin and has extensive subject matter expertise across property, real estate, finance and the new home market.
Paula has an impressive marketing career working in real estate and local council media teams and is a passionate advocate for mental wellness. She is not afraid to jump into the trenches and is experienced at managing teams through crisis periods. She also has a track record in developing marketing strategies that deliver business growth and result in sales.
Tom Panos
Real Estate Coach, Trainer and Auctioneer
JILL ESCUDERO
Jill is an experienced designer and digital marketer who has a degree in mass marketing. Jill is a talented photographer in her own right and specialises in creating engaging designs, marketing collateral and templates for clients while also have expertise in CRM management and structure.
Jill is experienced in front-end web design, and HTML and is great at ‘thinking like a platform’ which makes her fabulous at trouble-shooting tricky technical issues in platforms including Hubspot, WordPress and Wix. She is also a whizz with Canva, Adobe products and video editing.
Peter Brewer
President REIQ and INMAN Ambassador
MICAH SONGCO
Micah is a talented social media and community engagement specialist who is passionate about everything digital.
She specialises in creating awesome social media strategies that are strongly content driven and are successful at building engaged audiences both organically and through social media advertising. Her execution around reels and gifs is particularly noteworthy.
In addition to experience in Meta Business Manager, Micah is well-versed in WordPress and SEO and is now working with Google Ads and Google Analytics.
Tanja M Jones
TMJ Coaching, Inspiring Greatness
SHAIRA SEXSION
Shaira is a university graduate and experienced digital marketer who specialises in email marketing, newsletters creation and database management.
Her experience extends to various platforms and tools including Hubspot, ActiveCampaign, WordPress, Wix and Canva about brand building to achieve business growth.
Tara Christianson
Tech with TLC