Meet Karen Powell Karen is Head of Australia and New Zealand for ECOVACS ROBOTICS, Is the number 1 brand in the robotic vacuum industry in Australia. Established in 1998 in China, ECOVACS ROBOTICS recently hit 20 million sales global sales of robot vacuum cleaners, across 60+ countries. Karen joined ECOVACS as Country Marketing and Operations Manager in November 2018, promoted to Head of Australia and New Zealand in 2019. Originally from the UK, Karen is an industry executive with more than 20 years experience across business development, sales, account management and country management. Roles and Companies include: - Sony Ericsson - National Account Manager - Jabra Mobile - Regional Sales Manager, and then Senior Director of Sales - B&O Play (Bang & Olufsen) - Country Manager, ANZ Karen’s story is one of hard work, smart leadership, outstanding consumer relations and results. Under Karen’s regional leadership, the Australia/NZ market has been a huge success for ECOVACS ROBOTICS. Enjoy.

Meet Grant Petty.

Grant is founder and CEO of Blackmagic Design, a global Digital Cinema company based in Melbourne.

In this interview - held over until we started to emerge from the pandemic - Grant talks about his humble housing commission beginnings to working with the best in Hollywood. 

For 20 years Blackmagic Design has been on a mission to empower creatives of all backgrounds with access to broadcast and digital cinema products that previously would have been too expensive.

In this episode, Grant covers the difficulties of the manufacturing process and what inspires him to keep producing equipment and software for the TV and Movie industry.

Best of all, Grant is a top bloke and one of Australia’s most impressive business leaders.

Meet Chris Lau.

Chris is the Managing Director of LASER Corporation - an Australian IT and consumer electronics company that sells direct to the public and retailers.

Another great story of business survival during COVID.