Susan Bratton

Susan Bratton is co-founder of an affiliate network, a green Web hosting company, an ecommerce publishing site and a podcast network. Based in California, she is consistently recognised as a digital marketing expert sitting on the boards of a number of technology companies, as well as the board of the Silicon Valley American Marketing Association. Susan is also Chair Emeritus of ad:tech globally.

Susan’s popular weekly show “DishyMix” has been on air for 6 years, interviewing fascinating media & internet executives including Seth Godin, Shawn Collins and Bruce Clay. A courageous leader, she has managed a 200+ team as SVP Sales and Marketing at Excite@Home, responsible for more than $100 million in revenue.

Susan has also received a number of digital media industry awards. AdAge magazine recognized Susan twice – first as a “Digital Media Master” and as one of the “10 Internet Pioneers.” The Business Journal also named her in their “2009 Women of Influence” in Silicon Valley.

Jeremy Same

Jeremy left ANZ Investment Bank in late 2003 to form accommodation services provider Living Corporate with school friend and business partner Adam Schwab. Living Corporate manages over 50 boutique serviced apartments in the Melbourne CBD.

In early 2010 Same founded Zoupon (now Deals.com.au), also with Schwab, which has grown to over 500,000 members across Australia, and is on track for over $20m gross revenue this financial year.

Jonathan Barousch

Jonathan is a successful Australian e-entrepreneur who founded one of Australia’s first ecommerce businesses in 1999. He built Fastflowers.com.au into one of Australia’s leading floral chains with high level alliances with Myer, Telstra, Westpac among others as well as many of the globe’s leading e-tailers. Fastflowers was acquired by Jack Singleton's 1300 Flowers in October 2010.

Jonathan is currently the founder and CEO of location based service Roamz which is launching later this year. Roamz is a joint venture with listed media and communications company Salmat (ASX:SLM).

Rick Merten

Rick is founder and Managing Director of Sydney-based agency Permission Communications. Permission opened its doors in 2000 as Australia's first full-service email marketing agency.

It engages audiences through a number of online channels for its clients, including affiliate marketing. Today Permission has an impressive stable of clients including Masterfoods, Ingham, Foxtel, Coca-Cola, Sony, Esprit and many more.

Dave Roberts

Dave and his business partner run the affiliate and internet marketing business South West eCommerce, based in Bunbury, WA. Dave was convinced some time ago that there is money to be made in the internet, but lacked the necessary training in programming or marketing to make it big.

Using the time-honoured method of doing everything wrong for long enough, and then improving the operation one piece at a time, he has taken the long way around to success.

Dave has put alot of sweat into South West eCommerce, and now believes it's reached the point where he'll get to take his kids skiing and spend more time doing stupid things on a motor bike.

Fred Schebesta

Fred is an internet marketing rockstar at Hive Empire. With his rock band looks and internet marketing skills he likes to combine both with a spinning of The Artic Monkeys. Hive Empire runs financial comparison sites including CreditCardFinder.com.au, SavingsAccountFinder.com.au and HomeLoanFinder.com.au which combine to generate thousands of customers for the banks every year.

Fred previously headed up online marketing agency Freestyle Media which he sold to the ASX listed Q Ltd. group of companies.

James Kitchener

Over the last 5 years James has built and managed a number of highly profitable Australian and International email databases & online communities with 100,000 members. James now runs Online Media Junkies which manages multiple affiliate and performance marketing websites and databases.

In addition Online Media Junkies provides its online marketing services to clients all over the world. From basic campaign setup, landing page optimisation, SEO, SEM, Social Media, Website Design and Programming, Email marketing and Affiliate Tracking and Management. Online Media Junkies help their clients get the most out of the performance and affiliate marketing space.

Steven Noble

Steven is Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, specialising in eBusiness & Channel Strategy. He is an authority on Australian online retail, including the behavior of Australian consumers, the sector's pattern of growth, Australian online retail technology adoption, and local retail practices across the entire customer life cycle, including marketing, merchandizing, and customer experience.

Costantino Marotta

Costantino is Head of Social Media Strategies at digital agency Blackglass. He has worked in a variety of marketing and communication roles covering creative, strategic, technical and analytical aspects of offline and online strategies, working in both agency and client side positions in B2B and B2C.

His passion for new media, coupled with his background in communication, has enabled Costantino to provide companies such as HTC, Lumo Energy and Curves - among others - with quality and innovative services in social media marketing, strategy, community management and data mining.

Dave Cupples

Dave started his first business aged 4 and by 15 was earning thousands in affiliate commissions.

Whilst still a university student, Dave turned a hypothetical assignment into a real business. ApeShop.com.au was started from virtually zero capital, which won Dave the City of Sydney Business Award, NSW Small Business Champion Award, NSW Young Entrepreneur of the Year and was also featured on Channel 9 and Sky Business Television.

In April 2011 Dave was the winner of SMX idol at SMX Sydney, voted Best Speaker by the audience and has just returned from speaking at A4uExpo, Europe’s largest Affiliate Marketing conference in Munich. Dave has travelled the world learning the latest techniques which he shares at his internet marketing tips and tools blog FatCowBusiness.com.

Sam Yip

As Senior Research Manager at Telsyte, Sam is responsible for heading up the ecommerce research practice. He has been instrumental in the development of Telsyte's Online Group Buying Research, the first and only industry study in Australia.

Sam is an experienced industry analyst having held senior positions with Frost & Sullivan and UXC consulting group. His research and insights are frequently featured in major publications such as the AFR, BRW, Australian IT, SMH, Sky News and other business publications.

Prior to Telsyte, Sam was Marketing Manager for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia & New Zealand.

Murray Kester

Murray is one of Australia’s leading ecommerce affiliates, with over 15 years’ experience in web design and development, as well as affiliate and general internet marketing. He is the co-founder of Affclicks.com and a specialist in paid search engine marketing (PPC).

Rob Ryan

Rob is a web developer with 4 years of experience developing solutions for affiliate marketing. A Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering Honors Graduate from Latrobe University, Rob is the co-founder of Affclicks.com where he is currently building an analytics platform to power the future of affiliate marketing.

Gayle Dallaston

Gayle runs several websites including the well-known BCL.com.au. She uses affiliate marketing as the preferred payment model for long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with advertisers for accommodation, tours, retail, real estate, employment, business services, personal services and more.

Gayle combines technical skills from an IT background with many years of experience in business, marketing and writing and has been outspoken about the need for transparency and accountability in affiliate marketing.

Rohan Gamble

Rohan Gamble is the Founder and Managing Director of Mozo, an independent online finance comparison and reviews service. Mozo helps more than 200,000 Australians find a better banking deal each month via the Mozo.com.au website and partnerships with Fairfax Digital and Choice.

Prior to launching Mozo, Rohan was the founding CEO of Virgin Money in Australia.

Simon Robinson

After cutting his teeth in sales & marketing within the wine industry for approx 15 years Simon transitioned into the online space as GM and sole employee of an online wine auction site in 2005.

With zero awareness of online marketing or commerce, little understanding of how eDM campaigns work and having never heard of things called SEO and affiliate marketing it was more a coincidence that the site grew and was acquired by a bricks and mortar auction house.

In his next online venture Simon had skin in the game after raising funds to take on SEEK.com.au. JXT Consulting now powers hundreds of job boards and recruitment agency sites.

Post JXT Simon consulted to online start ups for 6 months before joining Australian Daily Deal start up Ouffer.com.