Damien Foley, Founder, CEO, Director
Damien Foley is a Gumbaynggirr man raised on Dunghatti country in Kempsey, NSW. Damien is the Director of Foley Business Management, a management consulting business based in Brisbane.
Damien has had a professional career as an accountant in both public practice and commercial after completing his Bachelor of Commerce at University of Newcastle. He later joined the family business and has been involved in the Indigenous business sector since his role as Treasurer of the South East Queensland Indigenous Chamber of Commerce in 2010. He has been invited to sit on numerous community boards and committees in around business. He is a graduate of the Melbourne Business School Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and prior to this the ‘Murra Indigenous Entrepreneurs Program’.
While undertaking the MBA, Damien worked at Kinaway Victorian Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce and for a tier 1 infrastructure company.
Damien has spoken at various conferences and seminars around Australia on the subject of Indigenous business and accounting including Yulkum Jerrang- Melbourne, Aboriginal Enterprise in Mining Energy and Exploration- Perth, Reconciliation Week Business Seminars- Brisbane, ASIC Indigenous Financial and Commercial Literacy Workshop- Darwin, Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand Business Forum- Brisbane, CPA Australia Congress- Sydney, Interdepartmental Accounting Group (Queensland Government)- Gold Coast and most recently the Indigenous Accounting and Business Conference- Melbourne.
Damien has also managed numerous projects through his career. Some of these include the Indigenous Business Student and Employer Networking Event- (Brisbane 2015, 2016 Newcastle 2015), Indigenous Accountants Informal Lunches- Australia wide (2015), South East Queensland Indigenous Chamber of Commerce NAIDOC Breakfast (2013, 2015), Indigenous Business ‘Meet The Buyers’ QLD Resource Sector (2012).