Tina Teng

Chairperson, Auswealth Group

Tina is active in entrepreneurship, education and property development in Australia and China. Her family helped establish the Aidi International School in Beijing in 2005 as the nation’s first modern international school with backing from both the Chinese and Australian government. It now has 3000 students with 80% of students moving to top global universities.

As an entrepreneur, she established her first business in 2002 in the cleaning sector, before expanding into sub-contract management services to Chinese mining firms in WA as well as becoming a distributor for HK listed footwear company Staccato. She is currently working on a joint venture with Pindan, a major Perth-based national property development company, and facilitates HNW Chinese investment into Australia via her Auswealth Group.

She plays a key role as an Australia-China bridge in commerce, politics and philanthropy, in promoting Chinese culture to the West as well as supporting a range of charities particularly in Perth where she now resides. She won first runner up in the inaugural 2016 Mrs Chinatown World Pageant in Perth against 40 international and local contestants.

Brad Chan

CEO, Banna Property Group

Brad comes from a 3rd generation Chinese-Australian family business involved in property investment and development, primarily in shopping centres and commercial property.

His grandfather Bernard Chan migrated to Australia from Papua New Guinea in 1967 and the family is regularly in BRW’s Rich Families list.

The Chan family started from humble beginnings – a general merchandise store in PNG that later ventured into coconut growing. The businesses were destroyed in World War 2 but were eventually rebuilt and evolved into cocoa and copra plantations, shipping and real estate. Investments into Sydney started in the 1950s.

Brad established the Banna Property Group in 2009 to manage the family assets. The family has also established HaymarketHQ, a Sydney-based not-for-profit start-up incubator to help young Australian firms to capture opportunities in Asia, as well as the Banna Foundation, the family group’s philanthropic arm.

Brad was President of the Haymarket Chamber of Commerce for five years. He has a Bachelor in Applied Science (Land Economics), Post-Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment, Masters in Real Estate and Masters of Town Planning.

Anna Cesarano

Chief Executive Officer, Doltone House

Anna Cesarano, is the Chief Executive Officer of Doltone House venue and catering collection. She is a NSW Board Member for Family Business Australia after having been inducted into NSW Family Business Australia’s Hall of Fame. She is co-founder of the Biaggio Signorelli Foundation, honouring her late father, founder of Doltone House Group, to raise funds for a cure and research into Mesothelioma (asbestos cancer).

Anna was featured in BRW discussing succession planning in family businesses. She also participated as a mentor in the NSW Family Business Australia Next Generation mentoring programme.

In 2013 she was Barnado’s Mother of The Year Awards’ Business Ambassador and was on the Judging Panel for the Barnado’s Mother of The Year Annual Awards Programme.

Anna continues to be profiled as guest speaker in a range of sectors, from meetings and events, former NRL Women in League Ambassador, to featuring in the Future Direction Network video promoting university to school leavers from Western Sydney.

David Chin

Managing Director, Basis Point

David founded Basis Point 20 years ago to provide insights, connections, and investment platforms for the Aus-China & Aus-Asia institutional, wholesale and high-net-worth investment community. His has become a ‘thought-leader’ in the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) and Chinese investment flows into Australia.

As a second generation Australian with a Malaysian-Chinese heritage, he is keen to facilitate greater engagement between recent Chinese/Asian migrants and expats with the wider Australian community.

His career background is in derivatives, futures and hedge funds, consulting to government and semi-government institutions and exchanges globally and in the Asia-Pacific. He was previously Head of Marketing at Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE), and is the author of Thy Fiefdom Comes, a fantasy/science fiction novel.

Annie Guo

Managing Director, Columbus Minerals Ltd

Annie arrived in Australia from Northern China with her family during her high school education. She faced the challenge of a new language and culture, which she quickly embraced. During her Australian education, she accompanied her father to investigate the family’s agricultural investments in Tasmania and mining investments in Western Australia. After 10+ years at PwC, she co-founded Westlink Capital in 2011 as a platform to leverage her family’s networks to ultimately co-invest over $200 million from Chinese SOE & private capital into the Australian resources sector.

She joined Columbus Minerals in 2012 as Managing Director when she secured equity capital from a consortium of investors. Under her direction, Columbus has made successful investments in gold assets in private & ASX listed companies, including Dampier Gold Ltd.

Annie has in-depth experience in Australia/China capital markets, M&A, corporate advisory and executive management of public listed companies, with a particular focus on Australia resource sector investments.
She brings a solid understanding of important Australian/Chinese cultural, technical, operational and business practices and how these differences can be sensitively managed in Australian/Chinese business relationships.

Stacey Martin

(MC) Aus-China Business & SIV Consultant, Expat Advisors Community

With an extensive career in financial services and private wealth management, today Stacey Martin assists wealthy individuals and SME’s navigate Aus-China business opportunities. This includes market entry with the Dearin & Associates International Business Accelerator, connecting Australian food producers to strategic investors through the Farms and Finance platform and supporting services SMEs via the Australian Services Roundtable.

Her professional network Expat Advisors Community compiled the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) educational booklet “Smooth Road to Travel: China to Australia” bringing together a range of professionals with international expertise to deliver integrated solutions for Chinese migrants. As host of the Aus-China Business Channel on SME Radio, Stacey is a sought after speaker and event moderator.

The Hon. Alex Hawke

Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

Alex was elected at the 2007 election as the Federal Member for Mitchell, an electorate centred on the Hills Shire in Northwest Sydney. In September 2015, Alex was appointed to the first Turnbull Ministry as the Assistant Minister to the Treasurer. Following the 2016 Federal Election Alex was appointed the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Alex holds a Masters of Government and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sydney University. He has also served as an Army Reserve Officer.