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NSW CBD Advisor Connect Meeting - Sep 2025

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Join us for the next Advisor Connect Meeting by registering below.

This is an opportunity for advisors and other professionals across multiple disciplines to learn from each other, understand each other’s expertise and build a network that is required as trusted advisors to the unique Family Business sector.

Your local Advisor Facilitator will be your main point of contact.

Note: This event is for Advisors only.


This month's topic: 20 Years at the Helm: Leading Shorty’s Liquor Through Family Values in a Corporate World

About our Speaker: David Short, Managing Director, Shorty's Liquor

  • How Family style businesses can work with large corporates & their culture
  • Smart Strategies for managing Supplier & Customer Relationships in the process of growth
  • The characteristics of a great 'Trusted Advisor' to the business
  • The things he would do differently if he had his time over again
  • The do’s & don’ts of a great earn-out & working with Corporate Leadership Teams & Boards

For those of you that are new to the Advisor Group, this will be a great interactive session to ask David his thoughts on working with different Advisors and what skillsets were essential for each stage of his success.

We will be discussing his journey from founding a small family business to building a large business and successfully navigating an exit & earnout with one the largest conglomerates in Australia.

We will talk about his experience as the MD of Shorty’s Liquor & how he has evolved into that role over the last 20 years and trials & tribulations of running a family style business in a large corporate business and how he made it work. 

We’ll deep dive into the acquisition process with Endeavor and the land mines & lessons for other businesses to learn from that might help family businesses you are working with.

We will discuss online commerce & smart tech and how smaller businesses can leverage their size and agility to overcome the big corporates.

Managing the business with family around & scaling it up – what was the difference in business attitudes

For those of you unfamiliar with David, I have attached a link to his Bio here.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-short-7b630b12/


We look forward to seeing you there.


Thank you to our Event Host

To help with breakfast catering, please register in advance. SWAAB are generously hosting this event, and accurate numbers will ensure we can look after everyone on the day.


Please contact the FBA Office on 1800 249 357 if you need assistance registering for this event.

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