excellence awardee: Mortgage Choice Best Non-Bank BDM

Mikai Ning

Senior BDM

FEATURED EXCELLENCE AWARDEE

Mikai is deeply passionate about her role and is shown through her commitment to provide the best outcomes for her brokers. She is highly respected amongst the broker community and has an incredible track record of being responsive, supporting and reliable. Mikai’s resilience and strong work ethic is displayed day in and day out, and her service to the industry and toward her partners are undeniable qualities that everyone around her admires, values, and is inspired from.

Mikai Ning is the Senior BDM of Brighten, based in Sydney. Prior to joining Brighten in 2018, Mikai started her career as a sales professional and had achieved a highly accomplished career spanning more than 10 years with major banks and financial institutions, including ANZ and CBA. Mikai possesses an impressive track record of demonstrable success in relationship management, sales, new business development, multi-channel sales and management of complex sales opportunities. Mikai is deeply passionate about her role and is shown through her commitment to provide the best outcomes for her brokers. She is highly respected amongst the broker community and has an incredible track record of being responsive, supporting and reliable. Mikai’s resilience and strong work ethic is displayed day in and day out, and her service to the industry and toward her partners are undeniable qualities that everyone around her admires, values, and is inspired from.

www.brighten.com.au

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mikai.ning@brighten.com.au

+61450235656

Suite 3201, Level 32, Australia Square, 264 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000

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EXCELLENCE AWARDEE: Mortgage Choice Best Non-Bank BDM

Senior BDM

Mikai Ning

BLG Anne Merminod is an experienced litigator with distinguished expertise in class actions. As a partner at BLG's Montreal office, Anne focuses on defending class actions from certification (or authorization, in Quebec) through to the appellate level. Her deep understanding of class actions makes her highly sought after as a writer and speaker. She is listed among the Best Lawyers in Canada (Class Action Litigation), in Chambers (Class Action Defence) and in Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under Hot List,” which highlights top litigators in the U.S. and Canada. In 2022, she was recognized by Benchmark Canada as an emerging talent.

Caroline Briand is a partner in the litigation group at Langlois Lawyers' office in Montréal. She specializes in Indigenous law, constitutional law, administrative law as well as professional and disciplinary law. Her practice focuses on negotiation, consensus building with other stakeholders and land users, and capacity building. Since her beginnings, Caroline has worked in Indigenous and constitutional law and is passionate about the history and legal and social concerns of Indigenous peoples in Canada. She advises Indigenous governments, organizations, businesses and individuals, particularly in matters of Aboriginal and treaty rights, Aboriginal title, hunting, fishing and trapping rights, funding of public services and access to these by Indigenous communities and individuals, review and implementation of governance processes, as well as mining and other natural resource development. As part of her administrative law practice, she advises and represents professional orders and other regulatory bodies, particularly with respect to governance matters and judicial reviews. She also advises and supports organizations and institutions in matters of sexual violence and discrimination, particularly in the context of administrative investigations and is certified by the Barreau du Québec as a lawyer who conducts workplace psychological harassment investigations.

www.brighten.com.au

www.instagram.com/ brightenhomeloans

@LangloisAvocats

www.facebook.com/ BrightenHomeLoans

www.linkedin.com/company/ brighten-home-loans

mikai.ning@brighten.com.au

+61450235656

Suite 3201, Level 32, Australia Square, 264 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000

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Senior BDM

EXCELLENCE AWARDEE: Mortgage Choice Best Non-Bank BDM

Douglas Strong

I co-founded Shielded Insurance Brokers with my 2 business partners in 2016. Since Shielded’s inception we have grown from a team of 3 to over 50 staff and expanded to 2 locations. I work with my co-founders to implement strategy and leverage technology to supercharge the efficiency of an insurance brokerage. Streamlining internal procedures and identifying niche market spaces has yielded our company 100% growth rates in our earlier years as a smaller company, and 40% growth in our more recent years as a larger business. Seeing Shielded Insurance Brokers as a finalist in the Top Brokerage award in the last 3 years, alongside myself being nominated for Young Gun the last 2 years is a testament to the hard work we have put in. Alongside many of my peers whom have also been nominated for an array of accomplishments. It has been a challenging yet rewarding journey to grow a powerful brand in a competitive insurance space, navigating the everchanging landscape of insurers & underwriters and adapting to industry reform has been some of the challenges – however, seeing the progress of our 50 strong team makes it all worth it.