Wayne Smith

Co-Founder, Give a Feed

Wayne Smith was the Dealer Principal of City Toyota, which has become one of the most successful Toyota Dealerships in Australia. City Toyota has received the highest accolades for sales, servicing and customer service and recently Wayne was awarded the President’s Award, which is the highest individual accolade awarded by Toyota Australia.

Wayne wanted to find a way to be a good corporate citizen, give back to the community and help people in need. He started www.helpfeed1000.com.au in 2012. His idea was to raise enough money to donate 1000 Foodbank Christmas hampers to 1000 families, and it worked.

Later this changed to www.giveafeed.com.au as they planned to increase the target from helping 1000 families to 2,500 families in need. Wayne and his wife Joanne have two children who help each year to pack the Give a Feed hamper's. As a family, they are always willing to donate their time and resources to help brighten the lives of others in their community, especially those who may be going through challenging times. Wayne believes in leading by example, a value that has contributed to the success of Give a Feed.

Aaron Pitt

Co-Founder, Give a Feed

Growing up in the country with 12 siblings, Aaron excelled at being the classroom clown — and it’s this love of performing that forms the foundation of his career today. To get noticed in such a large family, Aaron had to learn to be good at getting his Mum's attention, and the best way to do that was to make his Mum laugh. Comedy was also a good way to camouflage his struggle with reading and writing. It took a long time for his teachers to work out that he was dyslexic, especially when he was making them laugh. Laughing was also the best way for his family to tackle the hard times,

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"Throughout my life, I have seen and even been the benefactor of kindness.  Give A Feed for me started as a way of saying thank you, giving back, and hopefully helping others experience the motivation that comes from receiving and giving kindness. Helping someone at a time of need smile is extremely contagious"

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Aaron is the Creative Director of Imagination Media, a multimedia production and creative marketing company, and the very proud father of a beautiful little princess.

Peter Rowsthorn

Actor / Comedian

Peter Rowsthorn is a high energy, fast-paced stand-up comedian one minute and a measured character actor the next. A masterful MC of corporate and private functions, he has been performing his slick & blistering stand up for three decades.

Most recently, Peter has appeared regularly on "Thank God You're Here" series 1, 2, 3 and 4, popped up on "Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation" and can currently be seen hosting the delightful “Can We Help” on the ABC on Friday nights. But Peter is probably still best known as long-suffering husband and pants-man Brett Craig on “Kath & Kim”.

Peter Vlahos

Sports Broadcaster - SEN RADIO NETWORK

Peter Vlahos has had a love for media and was fortunate to land his first job straight out of high school. He commenced his career at 6KG in Kalgoorlie, working as a radio announcer, playing the music, calling the goldfields football and doing about everything else that is required of you in country radio. He landed a job as an announcer and sports contributor at community station 6NR, where overtime he concentrated on developing his sports broadcasting skills at the expense of music announcing. Eventually, he was given the role of Sports Director, pioneering the station into AFL football, cricket, and soccer programming. Out to sample the big smoke, Vlahos then headed to Sydney where he landed a job with SBS Television as a sports presenter and did some radio work with 2SM. During his time in Sydney, he covered World Cup soccer tournaments and other major sporting events. He returned to Perth to help launch Sky Channel butVlahos had a passion for radio which lead him to 6PR, where he has been since 1998. Peter joined Channel Nine Perth in 2006 where he has been a key figure in the Nine News team reporting on all things sport. In 2014 He continued his television career at Channel 7 as a sports reporter. Included among the big sporting events Peter has covered are the Sydney and Athens Olympics plus many AFL Grand finals including the 1992 and 1994 premierships also 2006 and 2018.

John Gelavis

Executive Director - Master Builders Association of WA (MBAWA)

As the Executive Director of the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, John advocates on behalf of the WA building and construction industry and Master Builders Association does all it can to support its members with high quality services.

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John has 30 years of experience within the building industry and held numerous sales, marketing, management, operational and strategic leadership roles. John has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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John also sits on several Boards including MBAWA, Reddifund, MyLeave, Mates in Construction and the Prostate Cancer State Advisory Board. John is also an ambassador for Reflections through Reality, which is a not-for-profit reducing the impact of asbestos on the community.

Damian Martin

Professional Basketball Player, Perth Wildcats / Australian Boomers

The five-time NBL Best Defensive Player is poised to be ranked amongst the best NBL defenders of all-time. 2014/15: Perth Wildcats captain Damian Martin again led from the front in 2014/15 as one of the team’s best performers. He continued to terrorise opponents with relentless defensive pressure, coming up with a league-leading 81 steals for the season – including nine against Sydney in October. He averaged 6.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game on his way to being named the NBL’s Best Defensive Player for the fifth straight season. He scored double-digit totals on five occasions and grabbed five or more rebounds on 10 occasions and five or more assists on nine occasions. Damian Martin captained Australia’s under-20 team to a world championship in 2003, defeating the USA in the gold medal game. He then attended Loyola Marymount University before making his NBL debut for the Sydney Spirit in the 2008/09 season. The Perth Wildcats recruited Martin in 2009 where he became a Championship player with the club in his first season. He also captained the team to the 2014 Championship. Throughout his career, he has averaged 7.3 points per game, 5.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.1 steals. To find out more about Damian visit wildcats.com.au.

Amy Zempilas

Social Media Influencer / Blogger

Amy Zempilas is a proud wife to Basil Zempilas and mum of three. She also has a successful lifestyle blog, Absolute Amy where she shares recipes, lunch box ideas, parenting, style and much more. This is Amy’s second year supporting Give a Feed and she’s very honoured to be packing hampers for families in need.

Basil Zempilas

TV Presenter / Radio Host / Commentator, Channel 7 / 6PR

Basil Zempilas is a busy boy. As well as presenting sport on Seven News Perth Monday to Thursday, he flies to Sydney every Friday to host Weekend Sunrise for the Seven Network. He also calls AFL football and Swimming for Seven and has been to seven Olympics as a host and commentator. On top of his TV commitments, Basil anchors the 6PR Breakfast program alongside Steve Mills and is one of Perth’s most sought after MC’s and after dinner speakers.

Reece Conca

Professional Football Player, Fremantle Dockers

Reece Conca is an Australian Rules Footballer who plays for the Fremantle Football Club.

Drafted by the Richmond Football Club with the sixth overall pick in the 2010 AFL National Draft, he played 104 games across eight seasons with the club before moving to Fremantle as a free agent ahead of the 2019 season.

He was a NAB Rising Star nominee in 2011 and developed and improved his game in his time at Richmond.

His debut season compared to that of Dustin Martin’s – who arrived at the Tigers the year prior. Despite starting the 2017 season in excellent form at half-back and playing the opening six games, Conca missed Richmond’s flag tilt due to a foot injury, instead of playing in all four of Richmond’s VFL finals, including their grand final loss to Port Melbourne. 

Conca returned to Richmond’s starting 22 in 2018 and played 18 games, including both of the Tigers’ finals appearances.