Our Team

Maryann Tsai

Maryann graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering with honors, majoring in Information technology at the University of Western Australia. She was born in Taiwan and migrated with her family to Perth when she was ten. She’s a qualified engineer and entered the corporate world as an account manager before having her son, she remained his primary career until he began school. She has always been interested in baking and am a massive foodie who had big dreams of owning a baking business and helping women at the same time.

After losing her father, she witnessed her mother struggle without any financial security of her own. She was determined to avoid the same predicament and find a way to create opportunities for marginalized women. She had much time to consider how she wanted her future to look and realized baking has always been her dream and her happy place, so if she combined the two, that would be incredibly rewarding.

In 2020, she founded Missy M Sweets. This baking business produces homemade, small-batch, preservative-free goods such as decadent cookies and brownies, and customized dessert gift boxes with Asian-inspired flavors for locals in Perth.

Richa Joshi

Richa graduated with a Bachelor of Science Major in Marketing from Concord University in USA and a Bachelor of Commerce in Accountancy from University of Calcutta, India. She has over 10 years of corporate training experience, she was part of the boom of outsourcing that was creating many new roles in India.

Working under her own consultancy, based out of Bombay, India – she has worked with the Banking sector, as well as Tele Communications, the Human Resource sector, the not-for-profit sector and the Food & Beverage sector. She founded Dual Nation in 2018, and have been able to give people a voice, by being an ally championing equity, equality, inclusion and diversity via simple designs on myriad merchandise.

She is a life coach, a mentor, a social enterprise business owner and a podcast host. She has volunteered with Mentor with Boosting Female Founders, She Mentors, Reach Her, president of Gladstone Multicultural Association, Women Connecting Women, GCSS P&C, Saiki Sister Committee and Start Up Gladstone.

Sarah Thomson

Sarah is the owner of Online Social Butterfly. She has over 10 years’ experience in digital marketing with a further 15 years in corporate marketing and communications. Her qualifications includes a Masters in Communications Management, Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management, Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing). Her experience covers a range of business types and she has also served on an NFP Board, Bridging The Gap, previously for 3 years. Her areas of expertise include marketing, communications, business strategy and stakeholder engagement.

Nina Visic

Nina graduated with a bachelor of business (Tourism and hospitality), a certified Mindful Parenting Coach and Head and Heart Mindfulness Instructor. She has volunteered in the South Perth Toy library and P&C Secretary for Collier Primary School. She is a mum to three little boys and is also a founder of Mindful Parenting Lifestyle. She is passionate about helping parents to learn the skills of mindful parenting to their children.

Jason Jestin

Jason is a purpose-led entrepreneur, coach and consultant, with a passion for innovation, social enterprise startups, and transformational life coaching, who empowers individuals to explore and discover their own values, purpose, vision and giving them the clarity, conviction and courage to create a life of meaning and purpose, in their careers, entrepreneurial endeavors, or social enterprises. He is a Chartered Accountant with Big 4 experience who spent 14 years in London working eventually leaving his Finance Director role, for an international advertising agency, in order to pivot and create a more meaningful impact.

He lives in the socially inclusive City of Perth, Western Australia, with his 2 young children and wife, where he continues to passionately pursue his purpose-led projects, helping transformation hungry servant leaders, create and lead, legacy leaving lives of meaning and purpose.

Sarah Wells

Sarah graduated with a Masters of Management, financial management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and completed CDC, Board governance from Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is well known for working with individuals and business owners in really understanding what they want to achieve and designing the roadmaps needed to succeed. She is often called on, to share her views with industry groups and media. Her areas of special interest are the mortgage and finance broking sector, the impact of regulation, strategy, and retail finance. Her passion and drive for education and mentoring along with her work on boards comes from a belief that creating a legacy of educated, empowered and enlightened young women not only changes their lives but the lives of everyone that they encounter.

Bonnie Allen

Bonnie and her family migrated to Perth when she was 8. With an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Tourism Management.

Bonnie has spent most her working life in small business and is currently working for a not-for-profit in business development. Prior to this she ran a successful conference management consultancy for 19 years, balancing a young family and work. Nearly two years ago, a commitment to reduce her alcohol intake led her to set up a vibrant e-commerce store, Tabooze selling sophisticated alcohol free drinks. She is committed to giving back to the community and enriching the lives of women who want to reach their full potential.

Marika Gare

Marika is the multi-award-winning owner and founder of Perth Virtual Services, providing small and medium businesses with Business Operational Management solutions, support, event facilitation and coaching. With years of experience working with small businesses, Marika has a passion for helping other women and mums in business, empowering them to reach their full potential through innovative and strategic solutions and developing intuitive techniques to reignite their passion and motivation. Her goal is to help others succeed at what they do, enjoy the journey and feel supported.

Marika also provides life coaching through her Women’s Circles and is an internationally published author of multiple books where she shares her personal stories and challenges to encourage, inspire and empower others.

Praveen Vaswani

Praveen is the brand and marketing manager of Platinum 99. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts – BA, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia from Swinburne University of Technology. She moved to Perth in 2018 and began her journey at Platinum 99. As a brand strategist, she is passionate about helping business organizations to bring their brand to life.

Philippa Page

Philippa is a trained clinical nurse for more than 14 years. She graduated from postgraduate degree, registered nursing from Curtin University. She is also a parenting educator and owns an independent contractor dermatology business. She also volunteers her time on the WE Inspire�Board. She is passionate about helping women.