Grant has established many businesses including NowInfinity, the Strategist Group, SMSF Strategies, I Love SMSF and now LightYear Docs and the LightYear Training Group. If you ask Grant this is his most exciting business yet and provides business tools, learning, resources and strategies that make a real difference in the lives of clients of accountants and financial planners. LightYear Group also benefits from Grant’s involvement with Abbott & Mourly Lawyers and his Chairing of the Succession, Asset Protection and Estate Planning Advisers Association. On a personal note Grant loves his wine, writing professional books and novels, thinking and innovating, riding the world on his Nordic Track cycle and feeding his spirit with meditation.

The brains behind the new LYD platform, Ashleigh is dedicated to building scalable, profitable, technically savvy and digitally based businesses An OG Director and Founder of the organisation, Ashleigh has lead the group from novice start up through to the most successful new player in the document automation space. Ashleigh has completed tertiary education in law, finance and business administration and is actively transitioning into a PhD in law. In 2021, Ashleigh was named top 10 Women in Finance and start up of the year at the Australian Digital Technology Awards. When not knee deep in text books and legislation, Ashleigh enjoys spending time with her two children and feeding her online shopping addiction (not even kidding - she was top 3 shoppers on the Iconic in 2020!).

Michael is a chartered accountant with a broad range of experience in roles such as Chief Financial Officer, Operations and Projects Executive, Executive Director, and as an Investment and Compliance Committee member across a number of both ASX listed and privately held Groups predominantly within the financial services industry. Michael had a primary involvement in the listing of the HFA Holdings Limited. Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce & Jurisprudence from Bond University, a Diploma of Financial Services, and is a Graduate Member of the Institute of Company Directors. A hockey pro, bad golfer and gym fanatic, Michael loves his lifestyle on the Gold Coast and is keen to get back to local and international travel adventures as soon as possible.

Ellora joined the LightYear team in late 2020 after a 7-year period as a law clerk in Warrnambool, regional Victoria. Her role here as the Business Manager is to ensure we run efficiently in everything we do, that we are providing legendary support to enhance client experience and that clients are having fun along the way. Ellora is a stronger believer in making friends with our clients. As we spend majority of our lives working- why not have fun with it? Now living on the Sunny Coast, in her spare time (if she is not patting a stranger’s dog), you can find Ellora remotely volunteering for Forever Friends Animal Rescue, trying out new restaurants or killing the bad guys on her PS4. And of course, entertaining her dog Harvie.

Travis has been our legend sales director since September 2020. Travis has previously worked with a multitude of national companies with stints in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. As a qualified mortgage broker and personal trainer, Travis boasts 15 years of strategizing mortgage experience as well as 10 years of experience in the fitness industry. Living on the Gold Coast, most mornings Trav will be at the beach, walking Chewy (his fur child), or going in for a swim or surf. Travis' weekends involve mountain biking and spirited driving at the racetrack. Trav's holidays are for snowboarding.

Geraldine is the name to look for if you need any support or to voice any concerns. As one of the pioneer team members of LYD, Geraldine started back in April of 2019. Geraldine has been in the customer support field for about a decade now. With such curated customer support expertise, please reach out to Geraldine as she will have your back with added TLC (tender love and care)! When she isn't working, Geraldine climbs mountains, dives the deep sea, camps out in fields - or just lays in bed and watch movies. That's Geraldine - traveling customer support at your service! Feel free to ask if there are any questions.

Cris is responsible for all things sales, support and customer service admin. Cris joined the LightYear team at the end of 2020 originally a sales associate however has since found her feet in basically all things LYD! Cris has a Higher National Diploma in Finance with Honors. Cris has been in the customer and sales support industry for almost a decade, and was the lead call monitoring specialist and lead quality analyst for 3 years in her previous role. Cris is an amazing go-to person for support and technical queriries. Trust us - she's an absolute genius at finding solutions! When she's not working, Cris loves experimenting in the kitchen, reading, watching movies, completing puzzles, building or assembling Gundams and miniature houses, and travelling.

A self-described creative - Ornusa is our resident Marketing and Events Coordinator committed to brand development and growth. Ornusa spent the past 4 years structuring, implementing and executing strategic marketing plans for various establishments. Ornusa is most passionate about the work she is doing to help the LightYear team reach new heights! As a nightlife expert turned corporate junkie, it’s safe to say Ornusa has developed vast unique versatility. Influenced by music and all things animated, she aspires to breathe stupendous energy into this new chapter.

Elisha joined LightYear Docs in June of 2021 as Senior Strategist, working directly under Grant on the technical and strategy team (the dark side of the moon). Elisha completed her bachelors degree in Accounting and Business Law at Curtin University at the beginning of 2021, and will be continuing her studies in Emerging Technology Law at RMIT in the latter half of the year. Previous to LYD, Elisha worked as a junior accountant at a local accounting firm, building a portfolio of accounting practice and advisory experience. If she isn't studying or working, you’ll find her at the beach (contrary to what the others will tell you, the west coast has the BEST beaches in Australia), travelling, doing pilates or cooking (she makes some mean dairy free desserts!).

Megan joined the LightYear team in May of 2021 as Operations and Legal Assistant. Megan completed her bachelor of Commerce – Bcom, Accounting whilst working most of her profession doing everyday accounts for large companies. Megan then moved into social media, content creation and Project Management within the Fitness Industry (big change, we know!). Megan had a short break whilst having her two beautiful girls and created/founded her own brand Willow & Ko (baby and toddler shoes) as a hobby - supermum alert! Megan's role is to ensure all the documents on the new platform are looking good, consistent, up to date and compliant! When she isn't working, you can find her snuggling her girls, drinking endless coffee or lifting heavy things (strength training) in her home gym.

Emmanuel started working at LightYear Docs in June of 2019 as a Software Engineer. Emmanuel is core to our business, as he creates, codes, updates and fixes any and all issues in the back end of our platform. Emmanuel has been a software engineer for more than a decade now and is an absolute brains! We would be lost without his support, commitment and genuine care and dedication to his role. Emmanuel doesn’t like spending too much, so when he isn't working he enjoys playing Mobile Legends and PUBG. Emmanuel is also an avid anime fan, and loves watching anime, movies and any good TV series.

Jobalyne (Job) was brought into the LightYear Docs team in August 2021 as a Junior Coder and Quality Control Officer. Job works with our documents on a daily basis to ensure seamless readability, logical interview processes and fixes any and all errors. Not that we have many! Job has worked in document automation development for 7 years and is an absolute perfect fit for our team. In her spare time, she loves playing with her son, watching movies and korean-drama.

Ben Gill joined LYD as Chief Sales Officer in October 2021 after spending the last decade working with accountants and helping them move to cloud based products to help grow their firms. Ben is passionate about helping businesses improve their processes and bottom line and is a very well respected figure in the industry. Ben has also represented Australia in Basketball and has just had his first child Isabella.

Nadine joined the LightYear Docs team in October 2021 as our marketing assistant to work beside our Marketing & Events Manager Ornusa. Nadine is currently studying Business & Marketing which makes her a perfect fit into the LYD family while we expand. She ensures all of our media is looking sleek and enjoys creating content with Ornusa. She is always thinking of new ideas while completing our day-to-day marketing schedule. In my spare time, she is usually trying to teach my kids to be cool little people, making some rad art or epically failing at learning to roller skate.

Reynalyn (Reyna) was brought onto the LightYear team in October 2021 as a Client Success Officer to ensure all our users receive legendary customer service from the beginning of their journey. Reyna works beside our Client Success Manager, Geraldine who will both be your lifelines when you need a helping hand on our platforms. If you've got a problem, they'll find your solution. Reyna loves having tv series marathons on weekends and is currently hooked up on Grey’s Anatomy, so much so she's rewatching the series as she cannot part with it! She also likes to experiment in the kitchen, and strongly disagrees with any critics of her cooking. She bravely tries to improve her cooking skills with strict supervision from the master chef’s on Youtube of course. If she's not doing either of these things, she's dreaming up a storm as she's a sucker for a weekend nap.