Overview

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The Hon Bruce Billson has a reputation of being a ‘champion of small business’ and ‘Australia’s best Minister for Small Business’. As a Cabinet Minister, Bruce spearheaded that Abbott Government’s SME agenda to ‘energize enterprise’ leading the formulation of the 2015 Federal Budget’s Jobs and Small Business package to boost entrepreneurship and reforms to competition policy and law, unfair contract terms, employee share schemes, crowd-sourced equity funding and industry codes for franchising and food & grocery supply.

After 20 years in public life and having owned his own small retail and gallery business with his wife Kate, Bruce is dedicated to working to support the success of other small businesses as founder/principal of strategic advisory firm, Agile Advisory; Executive Chairman of the Franchise Council of Australia; and chair of the Deakin University/IPA SME Research Centre advisory council.

Bruce has a Masters degree in Business Leadership, Graduate Diploma of Management and a Bachelor of Business. He is a graduate of the AICD’s Company Directors Course