Committee
The Southside Chamber of Commerce committee is a team of dedicated volunteers who are committed to helping local businesses grow their networks and become more effective.
Southside Chamber Committee consists of:
Feel free to contact the Southside Chamber at admin@southsidechamber.org.au
Kathleen Lewis - President
Kathleen is a local south-sider who grew up in the Mansfield area. She has two teenage girls and have been a sole parent for the last 14 years.
ARK Financial Planning want to help you and your family achieve the lifestyle you want by doing the following:
- Ensuring you are financially secure
- Ensuring your family will not be financially traumatised if you suffered a disability or illness
- Help to build wealth over the long term
- Ensuring that your hard earned assets are distributed to their intended recipients, if you were to pass away.
They concentrate on focusing on your desired reality.
They Listen. They take the time to understand your individual situation.
They work together to build a plan, and implement it for the future.
Contact Kathleen on 0448 275 371
Geoff Webster - Secretary
Geoff has been teaching within the Adult and Vocational Education system at TAFE in Business, Management and Marketing since 1998. Prior to that, all of his early working life was spent in private industry.
Geoff’s professional experience includes over 15 years in the building industry, 4 years in the medical and scientific field and over 10 years as a Marketing and Management Consultant. He also was a business owner in the manufacturing sector for over 3 years. Other industries that he also has experience in include sports facility marketing, property and hospitality. His level of involvement within these areas varied from sales and marketing, office administration, staff supervision, project management, training, business management and consulting.
Geoff has been a member of the Southside Chamber of Commerce since 1992 and on the Executive Committee from 2006. From 2008-2010, Geoff was the SSCC representative at the Chamber Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ) Regional Council. As well, he is an international business entrepreneur with overseas property investments. In 2013, he commenced a PHD in Marketing through the University of Southern Queensland.
Luana Storni - Treasurer
Luana Storni is employed as a Business Teacher with TAFE Queensland. Before teaching she has had extensive experience in administration in different industries such as Education, Hospitality, Banking and Insurance.
Alex Dunn - Admin Officer
Alex is a freelance writer, with five years of experience creating promotional content and three years writing articles for news organisations following a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism and Creative Media) from the University of Southern Queensland.
He joined the Chamber to help promote small businesses and build upon his prior skills. He has experience with various social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, MailChimp, and Linkedin.
Priyanka Patel - Committee Member
Priyanka has been providing web design, SEO and Facebook Ads to small to medium businesses with an experience of 10+yrs in marketing. She has an objective to help businesses generate leads and enquiries online with marketing strategies that work.
Priyanka wants to help businesses with the ever-changing digital landscape that is posing a challenge in continuing to harness and implement the latest technologies and marketing strategies to increase web traffic, conversation rates, and business profits.
She has joined Chamber to help promote small businesses through the opportunities that Chamber provides through networking and also helping them with their business online.