Joe Andon: Young Business Person of the Year finalist
Joe Andon, of Vuly Trampolines was earlier featured as a finalist in the Business Person of the Year category. He is also a finalist in the Young Business Person of the Year category.
Jock Fairweather: Young Business Person of the Year finalist
Jock Fairweather - one of five finalists in the Singapore Airlines Award for Young Business Person of the Year advocates – is founder of Little Tokyo Two, an entrepreneurial community located in the heart of Brisbane which aims to engineer "creative collisions" with industry and government.
Little Tokyo Two began life in Spring Hill in 2014 and this month (October), it launched its fourth site at The Capital, Brisbane City Council initiative overlooking Queen St Mall.
Little Tokyo Two now has hundreds of members and has gained a reputation as Australia's fastest growing community of innovators, creators and entrepreneurs.
Jock is no stranger to bold ventures. While still a teenager he studied at the London College of Fashion and became a luxury shoe designer mixing with the likes of Jimmy Choo and other fashion elites. He sold his label to a Swiss Equity Conglomerate at 21 and remained as creative director before returning to Brisbane in mid-2014. He started the Little Tokyo Two with a group of 10 friends.
Word soon got out and to date 500-plus businesses have evolved out of the collaborative workspaces.
Jock's ultimate goal is for Little Tokyo Two to become the support system of SEQ by continuing to open spaces and building communities in Brisbane and regional Queensland.
Edda Hamar: Young Business Person of the Year finalist
Edda Hamar - one of five finalists in the Singapore Airlines Award for Young Business Person of the Year advocates – is the founder of Australian leader in sustainable and ethical fashion Undress Runways.
Established in 2011, Undress Runways is dedicated to positive progress and ethical standards in the fashion industry. Edda has since built a rapidly growing movement to educate and inspire people to choose ethically and sustainably produced clothing.
The company's annual runway event showcases a collection of ethical day-wear, evening wear, swimwear and lingerie from designers around the world. The emphasis is on organic fabrics, garments dyed with turmeric and red wine, zero-waste collections, recycled accessories, bamboo underwear and more.
Exhibiting in Australian cities, the event engages 50,000+ people every year to celebrate forward-thinking designers from around the world.
In 2014, Edda launched her annual magazine on the future of fashion, The Naked Mag. In 2015 she cofounded an ethical fashion label 'VIHN', manufactured at Lotus Silk, Cambodia.
Another recent triumph was her bold social media campaign that secured her a meeting with Sir Richard Branson to discuss sustainability in fashion.
Jordan Duffy: Young Business Person of the Year finalist
Jordan Duffy - one of five finalists in the Singapore Airlines Award for Young Business Person of the Year advocates – is Director and Head of Innovation Strategy at Buckham & Duffy Consultants, a company he founded as a teenager with friend Alex Buckham.
Since 2011, the company has grown from a two-man band to a 20-strong innovation strategy and software consultancy with staff in Brisbane, the Philippines and Italy.
Buckham & Duffy creates futuristic solutions with emerging technology supported by well-developed strategy and risk management. In a nutshell, it helps start-ups further develop their big ideas and introduce them to the right audience.
A current job involves working with Central Queensland University to develop an innovative new way of training paramedics through a digital triage process.
B&D has become renowned for its researched, tested and progressive methods that rapidly transform complex problems into disruptive ideas and functional solutions.
Although still only in his early 20s, Jordan already has an impressive resume. His achievements include an official role as one of 20 youth delegates representing Australia at the G20 in 2014 and participation in Brisbane Marketing's pre-G20 thought leadership event Brisbane Global Cafe.
Jordan Grives: Young Business Person of the Year finalist
Jordan Grives - one of five finalists in the Singapore Airlines Award for Young Business Person of the Year advocates – is the 27-year-old CEO of the Fonebox Group of Companies, Australia's leading provider of inbound telecommunication services for business.
Jordan co-founded the business-to-business telecommunication venture in 2008 at the age of 18 after cleverly identifying a niche opportunity to build fully customised and holistic inbound service solutions.
On track to turn over $15M this financial year, Fonebox specialises in inbound numbers, including 13, 1300, and 1800 numbers, phone answering services, call routing, and inbound analytics.
Fonebox promotes its Virtual Receptionists as the perfect economic and scalable solution for businesses who want to provide 24/7 customer service. The company now has partnerships with many of Australia's largest communication providers.
Jordan is a young entrepreneur well and truly on the way up. Along with his innovative approach to business he is also known for his charity work, raising $58,000 earlier this year as part of the Vinnies CEO Sleepout.
The Fonebox success story is driven by his passion for the product, customer service and his ability to sell ideas. He also invests back into the company's internal software development team to constantly improve processes and automate labour-intensive operations.
Penelope Twemlow: Young Business Person of the Year finalist
Penelope Twemlow – one of five finalists in the Singapore Airlines Award for Young Business Person of the Year advocates – is CEO of Energy Skills Queensland, an independent, not-for-profit organisation providing innovative solutions to enable a skilled and safe energy industry.
Supporting the electricity, oil and gas, mining, renewable and telecommunications sectors, Energy Skills Queensland engages, researches and develops products and services that align to the current and future needs of our stakeholders.
Among other things the organisation provides industry intelligence, including workforce planning, research and analysis, sources funding to deliver skills development and employment programs and facilitates industry engagement and educational activities.
Penelope has been recognised as a visionary, entrepreneurial and passionate leader within high-risk industries. Her drive to ensure equality in the workplace and community is evident in her charitable work and her Board positions.
She is currently Chair of the Queensland Electrical Safety Education Committee, Chairperson of Women in Power and a committee member of the National Association of Women in Construction.
Prior to joining Energy Skills Queensland in 2015, Penelope had consulted at senior levels in Santos, QGC and the Australian Navy.
Andy Gourley: Business Person of the Year finalist
As an accountant by day and skateboarding youth worker at night, Andy Gourley saw a need for young people to be safeguarded and in his own words 'just did something' about it. Andy – one of five finalists in the Channel 7 Award for Business Person of the Year in the 2016 Lord Mayor's Business Awards - is the founder and CEO of Red Frogs Australia.
Red Frogs was established in 1997 and is a support program for young people aged 15–25. It recognises the culture of young people is dominated by alcohol and that excessive consumption of alcohol and other substances can lead to dangerous and life altering behaviours.
The Red Frogs mission is to provide a positive peer presence in alcohol-fuelled environments, like Schoolies week celebrations, where young people gather, educate young people on safe partying behaviours, and promote and provide non-alcoholic and/or diversionary activities to engage young people in these environments.
A QUT Business graduate, Andy's Red Frog Australia Schoolies program now supports 17-plus locations where volunteers assist in providing diversionary entertainment, cooking pancake breakfasts and safely walking people back to their rooms.
The Red Frogs Schools Education Program also visits schools and universities to encourage responsible drinking and help young people become substance aware.
Jess Huddart: Business Person of the Year finalist
Jess Huddart – one of five finalists in the Channel 7 Award for Business Person of the Year in the 2016 Lord Mayor's Business Awards - is the CEO of Josephmark, the digital ventures studio that redesigned Myspace and co-founded trending music platform We Are Hunted, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.
A design and business expert with over ten years' experience in creating and launching successful digital products, Jess leads a team of 30-plus people across Australia and the United States to design products that shape the way people create, discover and share. On top of that, she co-owns motion graphics studio Breeder which produces award-winning work for the likes of Sony Music, HBO, Syfy and Myspace.
Jess also founded minimalist catch-up news platform Hash which aggregates popular tweets about topical headlines from around the globe and this year created Vest – a home for the most promising Australian start-ups.
Inspired by Sorry Day in 2008, Josephmark co-founded Gilimbaa – a creative agency to help noted organisations express their Australian roots and do vital work to aid communication with indigenous Australians. Gilimbaa is now recognised for its important, culturally-sensitive contribution, working with clients including the United Nations, G20, BBC, the Australian Government and Qantas.
Ben Bradshaw: Business Person of the Year finalist
Ben Bradshaw – one of five finalists in the Channel 7 Award for Business Person of the Year in the 2016 Lord Mayor's Business Awards - is one of Australia's most acclaimed online marketing and Google AdWords pioneers. He is the founder and CEO of Australia's largest Australian owned, multi-award winning AdWords management company SponsoredLinX.
The company offers innovative online marketing strategies for businesses to gain more online traffic, convert sales & retain customers.
A 'Google guru', Ben is a self-made millionaire and author. Throughout his career he has won a swag of awards for his achievements. Some of these include the Brisbane Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2015), National Australian Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year (2013), BRW Fast 100 (2013 & 2010), and the Q400 Award (2011 & 2010).
He has also been awarded the Smart 30 Under 30, BRW Fast starter, and has had SponsoredLinX mentioned numerous times in Anthill's Top 100 and Top 50 Cool company categories.
Ben epitomises his own company's catchwords – cool, clever and creative.
Godfrey Mantle: Business Person of the Year finalist
Godfrey Mantle – one of five finalists in the Channel 7 Award for Business Person of the Year in the 2016 Lord Mayor's Business Awards – is managing director and owner of the Mantle Group.
Godfrey started the Mantle Group, a portfolio of businesses and investments in property development, pharmaceutical, hospitality and agriculture, with his wife Jenny in 1979. He had previously run his own landscaping business while studying at the University of Queensland. And briefly worked for the Commonwealth Schools Commission.
Currently, Mantle Group owns and operates six Pig 'N' Whistle British Pubs, The Charming Squire, Jimmy's on the Mall, Milano Restaurant, The Library Café and Mantle & Cook Catering.
As well as these well-known Brisbane institutions, the Mantle Group has ventures throughout Queensland, New South Wales and Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
Godfrey credits his company's success with his ability to hire and nurture exceptional management teams long-term. He maintains a close relationship with the key people within each of his businesses, to ensure operating procedures and delivery details adhere to the business' guiding principles at all times. At the same time Godfrey leads his team with transparency and trust, to allow courage in innovation and persistence to grow the business.
The Lord Mayor's Business Awards 2016 winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner at Brisbane's City Hall on Friday 28 October.
Joe Andon: Business Person of the Year finalist
Joe Andon – one of five finalists in the Channel 7 Award for Business Person of the Year in the 2016 Lord Mayor's Business Awards - is the CEO of Vuly Trampolines.
Born in Bethlehem, Palestine, Joe came to Australia with his parents as a young child and grew up in Brisbane. The beginnings of Vuly took the form of Trampolines Australia, which he started at just 19. Joe developed an online business, building a website and selling trampolines from his bedroom at his parents' house until he had enough money to open a warehouse.
In the eight years since then he has turned Vuly Trampolines into one of Australia's largest outdoor play companies selling products worldwide.
In 2013, Vuly invented the trampoline Leaf Spring system, solving the coil and frame collision problems that plagued generations of trampolines and has revolutionised the industry.
Two years later Vuly redeveloped its Leaf Springs for Vuly Fusion, the world's first seamless trampoline park. After installing Fusion into SkyZone, injury rates reduced by 99% and 1,000 parks are now planned for around the world.
Joe and Vuly are recognised as global leaders in trampoline safety and aesthetic progress. The company won the Australian Good Design Award in 2014 and earlier this year Vuly was one of only four Australian companies selected by Google and Deloitte as case studies to be presented to the Prime Minister's office on digital strategy.
The Lord Mayor's Business Awards 2016 winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner at Brisbane's City Hall on Friday 28 October. Visit www.lmba.com.au for more information and details on all the finalists in the 2016 Lord Mayor's Business Awards.
Channel 7 Award for Business Person of the Year
Andrew Gourley – Red Frogs
Ben Bradshaw – SponsoredLinX
Godfrey Mantle – Mantle Group
Jess Huddart – Josephmark
Joe Andon – Vuly Trampolines
Singapore Airlines Award for Young Business Person of the Year
Edda Hamar – Undress Runways
Jock Fairweather – Little Tokyo Two
Joe Andon – Vuly Trampolines
Jordan Duffy – Buckham & Duffy Consultants
Jordan Grives – Fonebox Australia
Penelope Twemlow – Energy Skills Queensland
ISPT Award for Digital Strategy
PetCloud
Shelter Management
Tow.com.au
Travel Money Group
Energex Award for Sustainability in Business
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Daisho Co
The University of Queensland
UnitingCare Queensland
Clayton Utz Award for Corporate Citizenship
Datacom Systems
Queensland Rugby Union
Stephen Dibb Jewellery
Treasury Casino & Hotel
Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd Award For New Investment
Daisho Co
DEXUS Property Group
Iglu
Richmont Hospitality
Tritium
Australia TradeCoast Award for Small Business Growth
FivePointFour Holdings
Global Sourcing Services
Point to Point Education
Tritium
Brisbane Times Award for Business Innovation
Domino's Pizza Enterprises
EM Solutions
Like a Photon Creative
Scooter Ventures Pty Ltd trading as Scooter Tutor
Shelter Management
Vuly
Watkins Steel
HSBC Award For Doing Business in Asia
Australian Country Choice
Brisbane Airport Corporation
Charlton Brown
Domino's Pizza Enterprises
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