Key Note Speaker

Sacha Coburn is the C.O.O of her own family business Coffee Culture, a group of boutique
coffee shops with 300 staff in 20 locations. She has lived every inch of the pandemic with
her team of owners and has had to embrace change and challenge on a daily basis. Sacha
walks her talk every day leading her team with humanity and humour. A former lawyer with a
first class honours Masters Degree in Education, Sacha is uniquely qualified to talk about
what’s ahead.
Sacha is a Prime Minister’s Business Scholarship winner has recently graduated from the
prestigious OPM program at Harvard Business School.
Sacha runs a leadership development programme through their side hustle ‘The Company
You Keep’ working with both emerging and C-suite leaders to deliver whole hearted high
performance. Her podcast ‘The Not So Breakfast Show’ explores professional and personal
development and is available wherever you get your pod. She is on the board of Tieke Golf
Estate and chairs the board of Foster Construction, the leading commercial construction firm
in the Waikato.
As a keynote speaker Sacha works with organisations all across the globe imparting
messages that matter with her trademark, energy, empathy, insight and inspiration. Are you
excited for all the change that’s coming in 2024? Are you amped with ambition? Primed and
pumped? Excited and exciting?

Key Note Speaker

LEADERSHIP

Are leaders born, or are they made? Dave Letele grew up surrounded by gang leaders who inspired their people to be successful in their pursuits, but their focus wasn’t always on law-abiding initiatives.

Starting with his high school days training to be a future NRL rugby league player, Dave Letele has done the hard yards in leadership. He has learned what makes great leaders, and what inspires others to achieve great things for themselves. 

Dave’s unconventional start in life has enabled him to think of different ways to achieve success, and to embrace failure as a teacher. His willingness to be vulnerable and to ask for help shows his strength as a leader, and as a human being. His relentless positivity to change lives has made a difference to thousands of people across New Zealand, and he’s just getting warmed up.

MOTIVATIONAL

When Dave Letele admitted to himself that his life had hit rock bottom, that’s when his motivational journey began. Re-inventing himself as prize fighter “The Brown Buttabean” Dave embarked on a fitness journey that would prove life-changing for himself and for the thousands of “Buttabeaners” who wanted to go with him.

From living in a sleep-out in South Auckland, to owning his own home; and creating a thriving social movement that brings together his community, business, and Government agencies, Dave Letele is the most unconventional motivational speaker you’ll meet. He tells hard truths and motivates people to deliver great outcomes - together.

Certified EOS Implementer

Debra is a high-energy entrepreneur who has experienced the high-life of successful businesses, as well as experiencing two extreme train crashes, where she lost everything…
Losing her brother at the age of 44 & her Mum only 10m months later, whilst starting a new business, she had the realisation that life is too short not to be living your best life!
Debra has worked as a Senior Manager (GM or CEO) in several privately owned / family businesses, managing up to 220 staff, as well as running her own businesses, her first one at the age of 13.
In both running other people’s businesses & running her own, she has experienced highs & lows. Now that she has learned how to have the ideal entrepreneurial life, she wants to share this with others.
Her approach is real, raw & vulnerable – sharing the successes as well as the lessons learned from the ‘failures’.
Outside of running her own business, she is an EOS Implementer, a wife, a mother of 5 fur babies, an avid photographer, an adventure lover & a speed freak. She loves fast cars & motorbikes but also enjoys walking, cycling & nature. Debra also speaks 3 languages.

Media & Production

With the rise in podcast popularity, now more than ever, companies are turning to the podcast medium to raise credibility and integrity with their existing database and to engage new users with valuable and meaningful content. Podcaster, makes all that happen in one complete turn-key solution.I love all things podcast. From content ideation to audio/video editing and everything in between - I will share some tip on how you can do this also.

Head of Industry Engagement, Partners Life

As Head of Industry Engagement at Partners Life, Mark’s role includes working with financial advice providers to help them with governance, strategy, business planning, and understanding and meeting the requirements of the financial advice regime.

Previously, Mark worked in intelligence at the Financial Markets Authority, where he drove the project reviewing replacement business in life insurance, which won an innovation award from the NZ Institute of Intelligence Professionals.

Mark’s industry work includes being active in the Financial Services Council (including co-chairing the Professional Advice and Strategic Research Committees), and also works with Financial Advice New Zealand. Outside work, Mark has a YouTube and podcast series called “Governance Bites”.

Steve has qualifications in Law, Economics, Tax and Financial Planning. He has held positions with
Life Insurers in sales, professional development and product roles. He has spoken at many local and
international conferences and written over 100 articles for various publications.
Steve has a passion for helping advisers become better skilled at giving advice and reducing their
advice risk. He is currently working with FAPs and advisers to identify potential shortcomings in the
suitability of their advice and its documentation, helping them navigate the new legal framework for
giving advice and reduce advice risk. He lives in Auckland with his wife Natasha and son Richard.

Corelogic

After starting out as an analyst in the telecommunications and banking industries, Nick joined CoreLogic in 2011. By drawing on his varied experience and expertise, he always brings interesting insights to the property industry.

Together with his dedicated team of analysts, Nick is constantly finding new ways of analysing data to help our customers with their property decisions. By looking beyond the news headlines, Nick focuses on the bigger picture around where the market is heading.

As the face of CoreLogic in New Zealand and host of the NZ Property Market Podcast, Nick regularly fronts the media to share his expert commentary. He's also frequently invited to present to government organisations such as the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, as well as to banks, real estate agencies and consumer groups.

Outside work, Nick keeps busy with his three young kids and his passion for trail running and sport.

Forensic Technology Expert and Cyber-security Consultant at Incident Response Solutions

Campbell is the Founder and Director of Incident Response Solutions Limited, providing forensic, cyber security and crisis management services. Campbell was previously a Director at PwC New Zealand (12 years) and led PwC's national "forensic technology" practice, and the Auckland "cyber security" practice, a combined team of 11 expert staff. Prior to PwC, Campbell was a founding member of NZ Police's Electronic Crime Laboratory (4.5 years) and as an expert witness, he specialises in electronic investigations, cybercrime incident response and eDiscovery matters. He is recognised by the District and High Courts of New Zealand as a forensic technology expert and has also been appointed as an independent expert by the High Court.

Campbell understands how critical it is for professional service firms to mitigate the cyber risks they face, in not only responding to cyber incidents but also in adhering to good cyber governance practices.

Manager, Financial Advice, FMA

Andy has been with the FMA for 8 years, in frontline supervision roles, currently managing one of the financial advice teams tasked with supervising the FSLAA regime. Prior to the FMA, he worked for a major New Zealand bank for 12 years in various roles in the capital markets and was an NZX Associate Adviser. Andy led a review into insurance replacement business within QFE’s and contributed to the Banking Conduct and Culture review. More recently he has led work on various aspects of the new advice regime including publications on record keeping, interposed person arrangements and running roadshows talking to the FAP monitoring insights report.

Head of Financial Advice, FMA

Romil has been with the FMA for seven years, focusing on overseeing the implementation of FSLAA and ongoing monitoring of Financial Advice regulations in New Zealand. He has over a decade of experience across compliance, regulation, risk management and financial services both in Canada and New Zealand, originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is a Chartered Professional Accountant. Romil was significantly involved in the Banking and Life insurance Conduct and Culture Reviews, and FMA Bank incentive structures thematic and led the development of the FAP monitoring insights report and FAP Regulatory Returns.