Conference speakers

Arjun Paliwal
Arjun Paliwal
Director,
InvestorKit

The founder and driving force behind InvestorKit Buyer’s Agency as a guest speaker at the "New Broker Academy". Where he will be talking about Creating an unbreakable referral pipeline. By the age of 25, Arjun had already ascended the managerial ranks at CBA and completed his MBA. Now at age of 31, he surpassed the goals of many seasoned property investors, acquiring 17 properties and exceeding $12+ million in property value. Leaving the corporate world to pursue his passion in property, Arjun's entrepreneurial efforts were quickly recognised. He received the 'Rising Star' award in 2020 by REB and is a three time in a row finalist for 'Sydney Young Entrepreneur of the Year' by Business News Australia. (21-22-23). By inside small business he was also ranked a top 50 entrepreneur and small business leader in Australia for 2022. More success followed. Arjun has over a Billion $ in property investing and finance experience and is regularly featured in the mainstream media. Over the last two years, he’s been featured in over 400 mainstream articles and 25+ TV appearances. With his podcasts InvestorKit Podcast and The Property Nerds crossing over 400k downloads. His company Investorkit received the highest accolade in the property investment industry, being Australia’s official, ‘Buyers Agency of the Year for 2023’ by REB. InvestorKit over the last 5 years has seen over 50% revenue growth each and every year whilst maintaining a 100% client satisfaction rate. Arjun has rightfully earned recognition as a leading authority in the property investment industry. 

Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley
Founder & Managing Director,
Empower Wealth
Darrell Weekes
Darrell Weekes
Founder,
Purple Thread Marketing

Darrell is a Marketing Strategist, who works with micro, small, and medium sized financial service businesses, with little to no marketing budget.
That’s because he teaches businesses how to generate leads without spending money on marketing or advertising.
By implementing super effective, low-cost, no-cost marketing strategies, Mortgage Brokers, with little to no marketing budget, can usually generate all leads they can handle.
In the early 90’s Darrell was commissioned by John Symond to established and build Aussie Home Loans in both the ACT and Victoria. In three years Darrell cemented Aussie Home Loans as a major player in both markets guiding the offices to record production.
Darrell subsequently held senior positions at both AMP Bank and Liberty Financial before starting his own successful award winning mortgage broking business, ProMortgage, in Canberra in 1999.
ProMortgage was ranked as the number one Broker in the Professional Lenders Association Network, from the time it joined in 1999 until Darrell sold the business in 2004.
In four years, Darrell personally settled over $400 Million dollars in Home Loans, with an average loan size of only $250,000.
Darrell has been engaged to consult and present by some of Australia’s most recognisable businesses, including: The Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank, NAB, AMEX, Mortgage Choice, PLAN, the Real Estate Institutes in QLD, NSW, SA and WA, CPA and CA, the Accountants and Tax Agents Institute of New Zealand, the Australian Institute of Business Brokers, the New Zealand Mortgage Brokers Association, the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, and the Australian Bookkeeping Network, to name just a few.

Peter J White AM
Peter J White AM
Managing Director,
FBAA

Peter White is the Managing Director of the FBAA and first started as a volunteer with the FBAA in
2003 as the State President for NSW, then National President and Chairman of the Board of
Directors.
Peter’s banking and finance career spans over 41 years covering retail banking, Head of Private
Banking, Associate Director of Marketing and Distribution in Investment Banking, established
RAMS Home Loans first sales office in 1993 and has run several mortgage management and
broking businesses of his own.

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