Our People
The board
Garry Johnson
Board Member - Chairman
Board Member - Chairman
Garry Johnson
As CEO of global footwear brand Steel Blue boots, Garry has led the brands expansion into Europe, UK, Africa, Middle East and USA. After taking on the CEO role in 2009, Garry has been working to maintain the brand’s reputation as a sector innovator and leader. Most recently, launching an ambitious 5 year sustainability roadmap.
Garry is highly experienced in strategy, banking, finance and accountancy having previously held executive leadership roles at Bankwest and Westpac.
Garry has had an ongoing commitment to the Not For Profit sector through his work with the HBOSA Foundation, Rocky Bay and partnership programs established with Breast Cancer Care WA and Beyond Blue.
Anthony Denford
Board Member - Vice Chair
Board Member - Vice Chair
Anthony Denford
Anthony is currently employed as the Manager Future Planning at the City of Gosnells and prior to this as a senior urban designer and project manager with the multi-national design consultancy of Roberts Day. Before commencing these positions he was employed as an urban designer and project manager with Cardno BSD and as an urban planner at the local government authorities of Vincent, Belmont and Stirling.
Academic Qualifications
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) –University of Western Australia
- Master of Urban and Regional Planning – Curtin University
- Bachelor of Environmental Design – University of Western Australia
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) – Murdoch University
Agnes Vacca
Board Member - Treasurer
Board Member - Treasurer
Agnes Vacca
Agnes Vacca has 30 years' experience in providing advisory and compliance services to privately owned enterprises in Western Australia. Agnes works with business owners their finance teams and managers to develop and implement goal focussed business strategies including finance process improvement, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, sensitivity analysis, business planning and finance proposals.
Agnes specialises in family business succession, transition and exit readiness advice, working with owners to achieve their succession objectives. Working with small and large privately owned companies, trusts and partnerships involving one or more family groups, Agnes provides advice to enable an orderly business transfer whilst maximising the value to the owners. Agnes also provides advice to business owners regarding asset protection and estate planning.
In the area of compliance Agnes provides a wide range of accounting services including the preparation of financial statements to meet statutory requirements and financier required financial reports as well as reports for owners and managers. Agnes also provides taxation advice, structuring and strategies as well as preparation of taxation returns for income and indirect taxes to meet statutory obligations. Agnes also looks after the Australian compliance obligations for a number of Australian subsidiaries and branches of foreign companies.
Privately owned clients which Agnes works with in an advisory capacity include businesses operating in the manufacturing, retail, agricultural, professional services (legal, medical, architectural, engineering, recruitment), telecommunications, transport and property industries, and including high net worth individuals and families
Qualifications and professional associations
Accredited Family Adviser, Family Business Association
Bachelor of Business (Acc)
Graduate Diploma, Financial Planning, ASIA
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
Registered Tax Agent
Positions and Recognitions
Director and Company Secretary, Radio Lollipop (Australia) Ltd
Director - Theatre 180 Incorporated
Past Board Member, Zonta Club of Perth
2012 WA Business News 40Under40 Winner
Jackie Richmond
Board Member
Board Member
Jackie Richmond
Experienced in both B2B and B2C marketing, Jackie has been instrumental in the business growth, brand awareness, and sales achievements of well-known brands in Australia, including Steel Blue boots, Thermomix in Australia & New Zealand, ENJO cleaning products, & Australia's Mining Monthly.
Jackie's senior-level strategic marketing experience, coupled with an MBA qualification, enables her to provide strategic advice to meet business goals. This, along with 15+ years' experience in building and managing operational marketing teams and activities, puts Jackie in a unique position to consult on day-to-day operational marketing activities and business and marketing strategy.
- An experienced senior marketing professional with 20+ years experience
- Experience working in the following sectors: FMCG, Retail, Food & Hospitality, Mining, Construction, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Footwear, Publishing, Direct Selling and, Government.
- Has worked with and helped grow some of Australia's biggest brands, including Steel Blue, Thermomix and ENJO.
- Post pandemic started own Marketing Consultancy – Lyrebird Marketing
- Director of mining consulting business – Pangea Geosystems
- Education: MBA Qualified (finished in the Top 10 of all graduating MBA students in 2010 – Curtin University)
Grad Dip Marketing (Curtin University)
B/Arts Media & Communications (Murdoch University)
Certified Practising Marketer – Australian Institute of Marketing
The team
Colin Jorgensen
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Colin Jorgensen
Colin Jorgensen has 30 + year experience in manufacturing, wholesale/ distribution models and business coaching. He is an experienced Chief Executive Officer that supervises and controls all strategic and business aspects of the company as well as the direction in creating a vision for success. Colin has been involved in Start-ups and owned and operated family business models.
Apart from his high expertise as CEO, he is a seasoned business owner, who has significantly grown and helped other business to attain next phase of success, with his strong and diversified business expertise and ability to combine highest level strategic thinking, different perspectives, wise counselling and an accountability framework to achieve long-term sustainable value.
As CEO for Business Station, Colin’s vision is to develop support small business through the development of a variety of support programs and systems including incubators, formal and informal training opportunities, business coaching and help with business strategy.
Colin also is a philanthropist & is chairman of Foxglove Project – empowering women, and transforming communities in different developing countries.
In his spare time, Colin enjoys spending time with his family at his house in the hills, travelling, cooking and playing the drums in a gigging rock band!
Karl Durham
RTO & Business Development Manager
RTO & Business Development Manager
Karl Durham
Karl has over 15 years of experience in the Registered Training Organisation (RTO) industry. He’s worked in every role you can imagine within an RTO. His wealth of experience and passion for the education drives him to achieve operational efficiency, superior customer service, quality training with successful outcomes and financial sustainability. Karl’s ultimate goal at Training Station Australia is to propel growth across new educational industries.
Vocational Education (VET) is a passion for Karl and even though it’s worth in Australia and internationally is underestimated, he believes it’s highly rewarding.
Paul Duncan
Manager, Incubation / Business Coach
Manager, Incubation / Business Coach
Paul Duncan
Paul being a successful Business Owner, Marketing Strategist & Entrepreneur and published Author of “Dominate Your Market” has been involved in business development and growth for 25 years.
During Paul’s career he has identified that in today’s competitive world, the best way to ensure organisational success is to delight the customer. Today and tomorrow’s customers want responsiveness, reasonable cost and high quality in products & services. If a company does not meet or exceed the customer’s needs & expectations their competition will?
Starting his career as a qualified 5 star chef and travelling the world to learn and increase personal development and eventually leaving the corporate world to become a business and marketing strategist, Paul brings with him some key strength in multi-site retail & franchise operations and experience in running and owning many successful and diverse businesses.
Paul believes a good management philosophy is that “Systems run the Business” and “People run the Systems” with this in mind business owners can free up more time to do the things they need or enjoy doing.
It’s no longer enough simply to “embrace” change, continuous improvement must become a way of doing business, when Paul works with his clients and customers, together they actively seek improvements and set systems and processes that support and drive initiative with trust is the key. As a business and marketing strategist, Paul is mindful of developing an environment so that people work without fear, within a culture that encourages pride in both personnel and organization accomplishments.
Passionate about having a balanced level between work and family, with 4 kids, Paul believes there is an importance in spending quality time at home. As the say” You can spend all your money and keep making more but once you have spent your time it gone forever.”
Trevor Gaynor
ECUBIC Incubator Manager
ECUBIC Incubator Manager
Trevor Gaynor
Trevor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Industrial, Construction and Safety industries to the Business Station team. Trevor is an experienced State Manager with multiple sales and management roles over his career and his training as a Boilermaker leads him to take a hands-on approach to all challenges.
As the Manager of our ECU Business and Innovation Centre in Joondalup, Trevor is approachable and will do whatever he can to ensure the needs of our members are met. He is responsible for maintaining the strength and stability of the centre, making sure our services are top-notch and providing guidance and support to our small business residents.
Trevor’s interests include music, working as the mechanic for a successful Perth Go Kart team, completing home renovations and being a proud Grandfather.
Anne-Kit Littler
Wanneroo Incubator Coordinator
Wanneroo Incubator Coordinator
Anne-Kit Littler
Originally from Denmark, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts from Copenhagen Business School, she has a diverse background in linguistics, communication, business administration and customer service and has lived and worked in Europe and Asia as well as Australia.
Having been a small business owner for many years with her husband John, Anne-Kit is passionate about helping small businesses not only to succeed, but to thrive! She is a great “encourager” and has the ability get along with all kinds of people.
Gözde Özcan
Graphic Designer
Graphic Designer
Gözde Özcan
Gözde (or Göz for short) is the Graphic Designer at Business Station. She’s part of the Marketing team and she is responsible for all aspects of the company’s design process.
Kasey-Lee Turtur
Gosnells Incubator Coordinator
Gosnells Incubator Coordinator
Kasey-Lee Turtur
If you’ve ever visited or called our Gosnells incubator, you would have met Kasey! Kasey is our Incubator Coordinator in Gosnells. In her role, Kasey is responsible for:
- Incubator support
- Administration
- Room bookings
- Site inductions
- Tenant and client liaison
- All day-to-day operations
Basically, Kasey makes sure the incubator is running smoothly and efficiently (and the vending machine is always well stocked with chocolates!).
Kasey has significant experience working in customer service, having previously held reception roles in the service industry.
In her spare time Kasey says she is mostly chasing after her kids, but also enjoys reading a good crime novel or something psychology related.
Trinity James
Business Development Manager
Business Development Manager
Trinity James
Trinity is a positive and energetic coach, trainer and business development manager.
She has a strong background in learning and development, Trinity has designed and delivered business training programs across Australia and New Zealand.
Trinity is passionate about providing clarity and transparency on your personal path to success. She has the ability to inspire a shared vision for the future and work with you to create a clear pathway towards it.
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