Robyn Preston

Member of the Legislative Assembly, Member for Hawkesbury

Robyn Preston is Chair of the NSW Legislative Assembly Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, established on 18 June 2019.

She is also the Member for Hawkesbury, Deputy Chair for Staysafe (Joint Standing Committee on Road Safety) and a Committee Member on Children and Young People.

Raised in Western Sydney by her mother after her father had died, Robyn learned early about the value of a strong work ethic and families pulling together. As a mother of two, she has worked hard to help inspire them to look beyond themselves and focus on contributing to the community.

Robyn’s extensive business career spans private, public and not-for-profit sectors, in various senior management, sales and marketing roles, as well as running her own small business. She was also Australia’s first female rugby league commercial television commentator.

Erik Elzerman

Advisory Board Member & Independent Consultant

Erik Elzerman is an advisory board member and independent consultant to a number of technology firms.

Strategic insights on the adoption of Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things (IOT) are his forte.

The IOT focus includes Smart Traffic Solutions, Water Management, and Predictive Maintenance Solutions.

He brings over 33 years’ experience at IBM with C-suite responsibility as:

• VP for Infrastructure Services A/NZ,
• VP for Analytic Solutions Asia Pacific,
• VP for Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure in Global Emerging Markets.
• Team sizes under his responsibility have ranged from 200-400 executives

Earlier roles at IBM included Director of Sales and COO for Software in Europe (Madrid), Director of Sales and Channels Asia Pacific (Shanghai), General Manager Software ASEAN/India (Singapore), as well as Director of Software Sales A/NZ (Sydney).

From the Netherlands, born in the Middle East, raised in Australia, and worked across four continents, Erik is married and has five children.

Rick Alloggia

Managing Director INVOKE Property

Mr Rick Alloggia is the Managing Director of INVOKE Property, an independent property advisory and deal facilitation firm that provides innovative and strategic property solutions for public and private companies, & high wealth family enterprises seeking to create, sustain and realise value. INVOKE provides tailored end-to-end development management services to meet the particular needs of each client.

He was previously Executive General Manager of Celestino, a private development company, owned by the Baiada family, with a development portfolio exceeding $10bn predominantly in Western Sydney and South East Queensland.

Rick was responsible for the rezoning and delivery of several master planned communities including the Sydney Science Park at Luddenham in Western Sydney. This project will be a $5bn fully integrated community that will create more than 12,000 knowledge-based jobs, cater to over 10,000 students and be home to over 10,000 residents.

Equally, Rick oversaw the rezoning of The Gables, a 4,500 lot residential estate at Box Hill in North-West Sydney.

Rick holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney. He is a member of the Property Council of Australia, having held appointments to its NSW Divisional Council and Industry Committees.

David Chin

Managing Director, Basis Point

David Chin is a China Futurist and 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.

Nicki Hutley

Partner, Deloitte Access Economics

Nicki Hutley is a highly experienced economist, with broad-based expertise in macro- and micro-economic modelling and analysis, gained over nearly three decades of practice in financial and investment markets and consulting.

She leads Deloitte Access Economics’ Urban Economics practice, covering issues such as social and economic infrastructure investment, intelligent cities, climate adaptation, and overcoming social disadvantage.

Her clients include all levels of government and the private sector and she is passionate about using economics to improve the quality of lives through well-reasoned policy.

Nicki is a regular commentator on economic and financial issues in the media, a frequent panellist on ABC’s The Drum, and a sought-after keynote speaker.