MPFC Business Lunch 2023

Our Guest Speakers

Sarah Jones

Host of Fox Footy’s AFL Coverage and Fox Cricket’s BBL Coverage. Sarah is a highly respected and popular TV host with over two decades of experience in the industry. Sarah is known for her trailblazing role as the first female to host an AFL match on television and the first female to host a final, paving the way for women in sport. 

Luke Hodge

Luke has been involved in playing professional AFL football at elite level for 17 years. During his career in AFL, he developed significant and extensive management and leadership experience and skills. During his playing career, Luke achieved great success being a four- time AFL premiership player, three-time premiership captain and a two-time Norm Smith Medallist. Luke has a vast experience in leadership skills, motivating teams towards a common goal and has experience in the multi-faceted aspects of business management. 

Simon Zahra 

Simon's passion, commitment, high standards, enthusiasm, energy and attention to detail in all aspects of horse racing, is second to none. Simon’s journey started in the 90’s as a senior stable foreman for the highly rated Hawkes Team in Melbourne. During this period, Simon gained valuable experience and knowledge working with some of the most successful thoroughbreds in Australia. With over 25 years of high level experience and with the drive, passion and commitment to maintain success and indeed standard. Simon strives to evolve with proven and new ideas coupled with a range of technologies to further enhance the racing experience for the owner. 

Jeremy Hunt 

Jeremy is one of Australia’s leading start-up CEOs. He brings a wealth of knowledge and success in establishing brands and attracting significant market share in the consumer goods channel – especially health, wellness, beauty and food/beverages. He is currently CEO/co-founder of Travla beer and Executive Director of Straand hair care. Jeremy also advises ASX/NZX financial sector and leading data analytics businesses in the Cross Border E-Commerce industry. Jeremy was co-founder and COO of Health More (AUS $400m pa), Australia’s preeminent CBEC distribution company taking health and wellness brands to China. Health More plays a pivotal (often exclusive) role in the engagement and activation of leading brands across VMS, Beauty & Cosmetics and Baby & Maternity sectors in local and China based activity. In previous roles Jeremy was Marketing and Business Manager at Swisse Wellness where he managed retailer, ambassador and sponsorship activations; and Advertising & Loyalty Manager at Myer (2005-2010) managing $60m marketing spend per annum.