President

A local business owner myself, I value the importance of being around like minded individuals in a collaborative environment. The Greater Narellan Business Chamber provides the perfect opportunity for business owners to network, learn from each other and collaborate.

I have been a member of Chamber for 4 years now and have experienced first hand the benefits of being surrounded by people who are looking to grow their businesses. As the President of this Chamber, I am passionate about retaining our local talent in the area and looking for ways to make working in the area more appealing.

I have a background in Finance, being a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, as well as being a Licensed Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer. I have been a local resident for over 30 years now, completing my Bachelor of Business Degree at Western Sydney University, Macarthur. I live locally with my wife and kids and love the fact that we have the best of both worlds – 40 minutes to the surf and sand and moments to the rolling hills!

What excites me about our community is the opportunities available for businesses and the passion and pride that residents of the area have for this great region.

I look forward to meeting you at our next Chamber event!

• Manage and direct the activities of The Greater Narellan Business Chamber Board of Directors.
• Establish good relations with each Director and ensure that regular communication is maintained. This is to ensure there are no deficiencies within their chosen role and that each individual is able to fulfil their commitment to the Board accordingly.
• Chair monthly general meetings and Board meetings, or otherwise delegate the role to one of the Vice Presidents.
• Prepare the monthly general meeting agenda, in consultation with the Marketing Director. Ensure this is distributed to all Directors the day before the meeting and that any last minute changes are communicated accordingly.
• Be available at all meetings to meet and greet the guest speaker and/or any other special guests that are in attendance.
• Establish and maintain relationships with local councils and government representatives across all arenas, ie State and Federal, remaining apolitical at all times.
• Liaise with other Chambers of Commerce and relevant community associations.
• Maintain ongoing relations with NSW Business Chamber and their chosen representative.
• Ensure that the Chamber and its members are represented at NSW Business Chamber events and that a representative is in attendance at any special forums and/or committee events.
• In conjunction with the VP Communications & Media, liaise with media and approve/authorise media releases and communications as they arise.
• Represent members by attending local Council meetings and relevant local events and forums etc.
• Liaise with other Presidents of local Chambers at meetings, events and forums.
• Oversee and liaise with the elected Board member on special projects including, but not limited to, the annual Christmas in Narellan and Business Event of the Year events.
• Ensure that the Chamber, and its elected Board of Directors, are conducting the business of Chamber in an ethical and moral way that follows the objectives asset out in The Greater Narellan Business Chamber Constitution.

Vice President – General

We are pleased to welcome Pania Gregson back for her second year on the board, this time as Vice President – General.

Pania brings with her a wealth of experience as a Chamber director, having previously spent a number of years as Secretary for both Narellan and Camden Chambers, as well as 4 years on the Business Event of the Year Committee.

Pania is a strong advocate of the value of connecting with other local businesses whilst continuing to learn and grow as a business owner. She believes that Chamber provides the perfect forum and is keen to contribute to the successful delivery of these benefits to our members.

Pania and her husband, Rowan, sold their successful termite management business of 16 years to a multi-national company in 2016. She now enjoys being able to follow her true passion of helping others succeed by providing business advisory and consulting services to small business owners so that they too can achieve their ultimate business goal.

• Provide support to the president in carrying out responsibilities.
• Represent the president at the functions or meetings as required.
• Chair monthly general and executive meetings if the president is unavailable.
• Assist the speaker co ordinator to ensure guest speakers are booked along with sponsors and prizes are confirmed 3 months in advance.
• Assist the membership and marketing manager to ensure business profiles, web pages and media for monthly meetings are done and liaise with external parties.
• Oversee and co-ordinate at all times on “special” projects, i.e. Christmas in Narellan, BEOTY
• Manage all service contracts and providers to NCC.
• Assist the President in managing Executive roles and responsibilities.
• Manage with the marketing manager the presentations for all general meetings.

Vice President – Communication & Media

Elisha is in her fourth year on the board of The Greater Narellan Business Chamber after 3 years as the Marketing Coordinator from 2015 – 2018 and is excited to support the Chamber further in the Vice President – Communications & Media role. Elisha runs a local Branding & Marketing Agency, Evoke Visual Creations and is honoured to use her skills and expertise to support and grow the Chamber.

Elisha initially joined the Board for personal and business development and to explore how she could support local business through Chamber and she enjoys the contribution this allows her to make to the local business community.

Elisha strongly believes every local business should be a part of The Greater Narellan Business Chamber, not only to increase their brand awareness & grow their business, but stay up to date with what is happening in the local area, and to receive quality education and training.

• Provide support to the president and general vice president in carrying out their responsibilities as required.
• Ensure guest speakers are booked along with sponsors and prizes are confirmed 3 months in advance.
• Keep records of all relevant press cuttings.
• Invite media contact to all meetings .
• Liaise with President and VP to discuss media releases and public communication
• Send communication, photos, video etc to marketing manager and assist with media releases to go on website/facebook/LinkedIN as required by the board and or assist the marketing manager.
• Update and assist president and marketing to produce media release immediately after monthly meetings as a form of NCC newsletter.
• Provide at each monthly meeting an update on local events and headlines in conjunction with the media sponsor ie General Business and local updates
• Liaise with media sponsors in relation to material to be presented to the monthly in local update and news.
• Assist the President to liaise with media and coordinate media releases.
• Assist the President and attend relevant local council meetings and any other local authority in relation to business and provide updates.
• Assist the marketing manager and President in the update of any communications with the membership including President messages, newsletters etc
• Assist create and grow the communications between business and members.

Secretary

• Prepare and distribute agendas for monthly general and executive meetings.
• Record and draft minutes of monthly general and executive meetings.
• In conjunction with Website/IT Coordinator, upload minutes from general and executive meetings to chamber web site.
• Collect mail from NCC post box, distribute accordingly (scan, email etc) and collate and file all correspondence.
• Respond to, and draft any general correspondence on behalf of NCC Executive as required.
• Prepare outgoing correspondence as required (including thank you letters to monthly speakers).
• Assist with any correspondence to government departments on behalf of chamber as required.
• Assist the Treasurer with the appointments and resignations of new executives in relation to ASIC.
• Organise monthly executive meetings.
• Present minutes at meetings (i.e. circulate on table).
• Assist with registration desk at Chamber meetings and functions.

Treasurer

Amy has re-joined the board this year as Treasurer, after completing a year as Membership Coordinator. She previously sat as Treasurer for the Chamber and is looking forward to getting her head back into the numbers. Amy enjoys being part of the board, and a member of a thriving business chamber.


Amy runs her own business Start Fresh Accounting in Oran Park, and is a qualified accountant and Tax Agent. Doing business in Narellan and Camden is key to her success and many members of Narellan Chamber have been integral to this growth. Start Fresh Accounting specialises in helping individuals and businesses maximise their tax returns and achieve their personal and professional financial goals.

• Monitor and report on Chamber finances.
• Prepare monthly report on finances.
• Report to executives on status of outstanding revenue i.e. debtors report and bank account reconciliation as required.
• Pay all accounts received by chamber after approval.
• Maintain appropriate records to detail income and expenditure of the chamber.
• Issue invoices for monthly meetings, sponsorship, and annual membership renewals and new member applications etc, where not automatically generated by members via the Chamber website.
• Collect from President all cheques received and bank.
• Coordinate with the Speaker/Events coordinator, the list of the attending members for each meeting.
• In conjunction with VP, organise signatories on NCC bank accounts.
• In conjunction with VP, prepare ASIC documents for the appointment and resignations of new executives.
• Prepare profit and loss sheet and balance statement for executives as required.
• Prepare Directors Report and prepare statement by directors to the Financial Accounts.
• Manage and liaise with CIN Treasurer in relation to CIN bank account and expenditure and incoming funds.
• Liaise with and organise with the external auditor the annual audit of accounts.
• At monthly meetings manage and receipt payments from members and or guests, in conjunction with the Membership officer on limited occasions where not automatically generated by members via website
• Input and maintain and reconcile Xero accounts for record of all invoices and receipts and payments.
• Assist with registration desk at Chamber meetings and functions.

Membership Director

Renee is a resident and business owner of the local Macarthur area and has a passion for building better business connections. She believes that all business owners, big or small deserve the opportunity to be inspired, motivated and supported through our local business community.

A member of the Greater Narellan Chamber, on and off for the past 5 years Renee is passionate about our local business’s succeeding and as a business owner herself know’s how important having a strong support network around is, and with this passion and enthusiasm she hopes to add her value by bringing our members closer together to make everyone feel welcome, valued and comfortable and most importantly feel like they belong in The Greater Narellan Business Chamber.

Outside her membership duties you will find Renee helping husband Cameron run the family business CRG Plumbing & Maintenance, running her own networking business CRG Creative Networking, writing articles for the Oran Park Gazette and being a mum to 2 young boys.

• Handle membership enquires from prospective and existing members.
• Respond to membership enquiries via email and the website.
• Forward welcome email to new members.
• Post welcome message on NCC Facebook for new members.
• Put together notice for tables at meeting of all new member details.
• Update the NCC website with new member details and new member logo.
• Update the NSW Business Chamber portal with new member details.
• Co-ordinate membership badges for new members.
• Provide membership update at general meeting.
• Introduce new members and provide a new member list to President at monthly meetings.
• Liaise with Treasurer regarding financial status of members.
• Meet and greet new members at Chamber meetings.
• Advise people on membership process and applications at the general meetings.
• Work with the sponsorship coordinator in relation to the sponsorship programme for NCC and CIN or any other projects NCC is involved with.
• Select members to be profiled for the Around the Grounds/Who Am I segment each month, advise them prior to the meeting that they have been selected.
• Come up with new ways to promote the growth of membership in consultation with the Executive.

Marketing Director

We are pleased to welcome Kaisha as our Marketing Director for 2018!

Kaisha is a lawyer at Coutts Solicitors & Conveyancers and has been a member of the Greater Narellan Business Chamber for the past four years. She is passionate about supporting the local business community in the Macarthur region and has a keen interest in networking and social media marketing.

Kaisha is looking forward to being able to help inspire and support the members of the Chamber to get the most out of their membership and to continue to succeed in our thriving business community.

• Manage, finalise and roll out the marketing plan for the chamber
• Send communication, photos, video etc to go on website/facebook/LinkedIN as required.
• Assist the creative and assist produce media release immediately after monthly meetings as a form of NCC newsletter.
• Manage the photographer at meeting and update face book page and website.
• Liaise with the membership and sponsorship co ordinctor to assist in marketing the members and or sponsors in our own forums.
• Assist the Sponsorship coordinator in promoting sponsorship programmes.
• Assist the Vice President with the presentations for general meetings
• Manage Website.
• Manage articles/blogs and information to go on website.
• Manage invitations and on line communications, ensuring members receive timely notification and reminders of chamber meetings and events.
• Keep current and future NCC general meetings updated .
• Ensure guest speakers and information on the events are correct .
• Liaise with the membership coordinator on current membership and new member details being kept correct and updated frequently.
• In conjunction with the Speaker/Events coordinator, monitor meeting registrations to ensure RSVP numbers are within limits.
• In conjunction with the Secretary, ensure minutes are on the web in a timely manner.
• Ensure that file sizes and formats are correct for uploading onto web site, face book or any other form of advertising.
• Create monthly ads/invitations for general meetings held by the chamber.

Events Director

Leanne’s company has been a member of the Chamber for over 25 years, Leanne has been on the board for two years and is entering her 3rd term. Being a natural organiser Leanne has brought a wealth of experience to this role, whilst the role has its challenges it is also rewarding to see the success of every meeting.

Leanne has managed the family printing business with Ian since taking over in 2005 and has held a leading role since joining the company over 24 years ago. Leanne’s level of customer service, problem solving and attention to detail has built a great foundation to add value to The Greater Narellan Business Chamber.

• Together with the Executive, source and manage monthly meeting speakers and negotiate costs and or manage other executive members who have organised speakers.
• Liaise with the speakers to determine their resource and dietary requirements as well as communicate the Executive’s requirements (timelines for sending though presentations etc).
• Liaise with venue for bookings, menu, numbers AV requirements, set up and room access.
• Liaise with suppliers (decorators, DJ’s, AV Professionals bands etc) to determine their requirements as well as communicate the Executive requirements.
• Coordinate the mail out of event invitations and the printing in local media – in conjunction with the web site manager.
• Enter RSVP numbers into an excel spreadsheet as they come through Site flex (noting payment type, dietary requirements, business name and attendee names). Print this and bring it to the monthly meeting for registrations.
• Communicate with the Executive on RSVP numbers on a regular basis.
• Assist members and guests who are having difficulty registering for a monthly meeting (in conjunction with the Treasurer).
• Source lucky door prizes (liaise with meeting sponsor/members)
• Print off the menu for the meeting and have them on the tables.
• Print off dietary requirement cards for attendees.
• Source cake, flowers, hampers etc for special acknowledgements, thank you’s, celebrations etc (member’s birthdays etc).
• Arrive early to monthly meetings and coordinate room set up (liaise with decorators, DJ, AV board members, function staff etc).
• Be the contact person at the event, liaising between the President, MC and venue in the event issues arise and need to be dealt with.
• Help speaker/s and sponsors at the monthly meetings to set up.
• Co ordinate the presentation of the room including manage external service providers.
• Communicate with executive on rsvp numbers and progress and co ordinate reminders with Website Manager.
• Actively host monthly meetings in conjunction with communication officer.
• Assist the MC on meeting nights in the coordination of the meeting.
• Assist in the coordination of special meetings (Ie Breakfast meetings).

Sponsorship Director

Sue is about to commence her third year as Sponsorship Coordinator. This is a tenure that she is really enjoying. She believes the valued sponsors receive exceptional value for money, and their support helps contribute to providing a better membership experience to members.

Sue has digressed her career from being a qualified Music teacher to spending the last 20 years overseeing the operation of their family owned business, “The Strictly Limited Company”, of which is a well-regarded picture framing, sporting memorabilia, laser engraving and signage business in our local area. Sue and husband Trevor understand the value of local business presence in the community and actively contribute by way of sponsorship and committed support and participation to local causes.

• Create annual sponsorship programme and present to NCC board for approval.
• Liaise with CIN Executive and other special projects in relation to members interests in other sponsorship opportunities.
• Coordinating monthly business features in conjunction with the Events coordinator.
• Managing and ensuring delivery of all sponsorship benefits as per the sponsorship programme.
• Work together with the Treasurer in relation to sponsorship payments.
• Actively promote and source sponsorship for NCC.
• Communicate with sponsors regarding Facebook and other sponsor profiling opportunities and BIOS
• Send monthly reminders to sponsors that they need to RSVP for meetings and confirm with them if they are unable to attend that they can still promote their business via their banner at the monthly meetings.
• Constantly ensure that the sponsorship program and any ancillary programs for members are rolled out.
• Liaise with the sponsors to arrange that their banners are correctly placed in the room at a general meeting and assist with the collection of the banners if they can not attend.
• Coordinate with the Executive on the NCC after 5 Social Networking Event or any equivalent event.
• Actively seek other sponsorship opportunities such as special events etc that can be deemed as opportunity for further exposure of current sponsorship.

Governance Director

Wade joined the Executive Board in 2018 as their Governance Director.

Wade is a solicitor in one of the pre-eminent firms of the Macarthur region and who has worked locally for his entire career. He has experienced first hand the rapid transformation of the Macarthur region and the opportunity this presents to our local businesses and members.

He is looking forward to being able to contribute back to the business community of Narellan and assist in guiding the future direction of the Chamber for the next generation of business owners.

• Responsible for Chamber’s compliance with relevant legislation.
• Chair the Governance Sub-Committee.
• Oversee the development of Chamber policies and procedures.
• Represent the Chamber at NSW Regional Advisory Council meetings.
• Represent the Chamber at the Camden LAC Community Safety Precinct
• Committee meetings.
• Represent the Chamber at other community meetings as required.
• Complete required ASIC forms for Board appointments and resignations.