Member snapshot: Troy Williams

Member snapshot: Troy Williams

Troy Williams is a corporate accountant and corporate governance and management consultant, based in Perth. He is also a director of Aboriginal Family Law Services and a micro-board member of the IPA, assisting the Hotham River Nyoongar Aboriginal Corporation. What is...
Game on

Game on

At the age of 19, he went to the UK for what was supposed to be a six-month working holiday and ended up working in sales at APS, one of the forerunner companies that became Reckon. He returned to Australia some years later as office manager – with a staff of four –...
That certain something

That certain something

Trademark specialist Sarah Verstak, from boutique Melbourne corporate advisory firm McDonald Partners, is warning her clients to ensure they have thoroughly thought through any descriptive trademarks they want to try to register. If the terms they want to make their...
Korea: levelling the playing field

Korea: levelling the playing field

This is not to say that it hasn’t been lucrative – the value of two-way trade topped $32 billion in 2013, two-thirds of which accrued to Australia. And it has been growing strongly, defying the battering that global trade has suffered as a result of the downturn in...
Getting smarter

Getting smarter

Today, wearable technology can mean anything from the computerised eyewear device launched onto the market in 2012 by Google, to fitness trackers worn on wrists that measure exercise levels, heart rates and energy burned. There is also a growing wardrobe of wearable...