FINANCIAL FORCE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Financial Planner
• Treasurer of Cache QLD

Amber's financial services experience spans over 20 years, having held positions in lending, paraplanning and Financial Planning for major Australian businesses such as Mortgage House and AMP. She aims to be her clients' trusted financial adviser, to offer them a sounding board for their ideas, to challenge them to achieve their goals, to support them through difficult times, and to celebrate with them. She enjoys solving financial planning challenges, especially helping small business owners and professionals create their financial future. In addition, Amber has a particular interest in empowering women through financial literacy. She also understands the complexity of divorce, borne from personal experience as a member of a blended family. When Amber is not studying or working, she enjoys exploring the places geocaching takes her family, including rainforest walks, parks and gardens. Passionate about community engagement, Amber is the Treasurer of Cache QLD; an Association established to host nationally attended events for other Geocachers and is part of the planning committee for a major event in 2021. Prior to her relocation to Brisbane, Amber was President of Kapooka Neighbourhood House for two years.

Job Titles:

• Founder, Managing Director & Senior Financial Planner

You'll probably recognise Brad's friendly face from around the Bayside area. He's lived here for over 17 years, with his wife Sharyn and his now young adult sons; and they are actively involved in their local community. Brad is the face of Investment Zone and is responsible for its consistent growth since 2003. When customers entrust Brad with their financial goals and challenges, they feel secure knowing his background, experience and qualifications are more than sufficient to provide expert solutions, as he is a Platinum rated Adviser. He advises his clients in the same way that he would advise family and friends, with their absolute best interests in mind. Brad has been involved in the property and financial services industry for over 37 years. He has extensive experience in general banking, property, and business, corporate and rural finance, insurance, real estate, investment funds management and has been a sought-after local & international speaker to Financial Advisers. Brad is a country kid at heart, spending the first 7 years of his life in Miles & Emerald before the family moved to Brisbane. He started out his working career helping his dad as a very (very) young junior lawn bowls greenkeeper at Buranda, Sunnybank and Tarragindi Bowls clubs. He says it's a bit like milking cows (a very early start), but you don't finish until they start bowling, that's usually 9.00am or 1.00pm depending on the day! As a keen sportsman, Brad follows the local Wynnum Rugby Club and Manly Dragon Boat clubs. When he's not reading about business and finance news, he enjoys training with the local swimming squad at the Manly pool and loves nothing more than chilling out, sitting on a tractor slashing his parent-in-laws property in Kin Kin, near Gympie , when he gets a chance. Brad has been in the property and financial services industry for over 37 years.