APSCo Advice Line LIVE - April 3

The Panellists

Martin Richardson- Corvus Legal
Director

Martin is the Legal Director at Corvus Legal, which delivers legal services and solutions specifically for the recruitment and staffing industry. As a hands-on legal advisor helping recruiters get stronger every day, and a former senior lawyer in the recruitment industry, Martin help recruiters create businesses that can confidently and quickly respond to market demands and client needs.

He provides hands-on advice and assistance as well as tools and training to ensure his clients don’t just receive legal documents, but the industry focused guidance tools they need to hit the ground running.

Martin assists recruitment businesses nationally with the legal issues that arise every day - terms of business and other contract documents, temporary workforce engagement models, general employment matters as well as privacy and data compliance.

Paul Masters - Sovereign Private
Managing Partner

Paul is the managing partner of Sovereign Private. Established in 2014, Sovereign Private is a firm that specialises in the provision of taxation, accounting services and M&A to the recruitment industry.

Up until June 2014, Paul was the Tax Leader and the National Leader of Clients & Markets at Deloitte Private. He was also the National Leader of the recruitment industry group.

Sovereign Private provides a one stop shop for tax strategy; tax compliance; accounting services; and, M&A advisory and transaction support.

Danny Marlow - APositive Workforce Finance
Founder and CEO

After working for a number of generalist finance providers Danny realised that the recruitment and labour hire market had a unique set of technology that was underutilised and finance requirements that were not being met.

He co-founded APositive in 2013, a Fintech that has since funded over $750m to help the growth of hundreds of Australian recruitment businesses and was recently 23rd on the 2020 AFR Fast 100. 

His passion is on making a positive difference on both sides of the employment marketplace, by providing recruiters and employers with easy and fast access to funding through integrating with their technology. 

Brianna Cattanach, Gallagher
Principal Consultant // National Education and Training 
Workplace Risk 

Brianna commenced her career working as an Occupational Therapist with a speciality in occupational health and wellbeing. Her role as a workplace consultant provided exposure to a wide range of industries and employers and the vast array of challenges workplaces face in proactively supporting, managing and engaging their teams in occupational health and safety. From here Brianna’s passion and work grew in the space of workplace education and training programs which build capacity, manage risk and enhance an organisations existing culture and processes, creating a truly preventative and predictive approach. 
 
Now as the lead of Gallagher’s national education and training services, Brianna has been integral in developing and facilitating a range of bespoke workforce education projects and training courses which ultimately drive improved productivity, cultural, financial and most importantly people outcomes for organisations. Her projects balance best practice content with engagement and ensure that organisational collaboration and buy-in are at the centre of achieving results in areas such as mental health and wellbeing, injury management, safety, ageing workforce strategies, occupational violence and aggression and team dynamics. 
 
In addition to her work with Gallagher, Brianna routinely presents as an expert speaker on occupational health and wellbeing at a range of industry and corporate events. Brianna is a guest lecturer in the field of Occupational Therapy at Swinburne University and La Trobe University. Brianna also sits on the Academic Advisory Committee for La Trobe University's Masters of Occupational Therapy degree.