Tom
Williams
Speaker Profile
When Tom called in to Merrick and Rosso's Drive show on Triple J in July 2000 to throw in his ten cents worth on the nation's airwaves he forgot to turn down the radio in his ute. The resulting feedback had Merrick and Rosso's producer Jen Oldershaw hanging up before Tom's pleading persuaded her to hang on the line. Twenty seconds later the listeners met Tom The Chippy From Manly.
The ensuing rave with the boys made Tom into a regular, letting the people of Australia know about life on the building site for the remainder of the year. When Merrick and Rosso went to launch Sydney’s new radio station NOVA 969 in April, 2001, Tom came with them, running The Chippy's Driver Reviver every Friday morning.
Tom's knockabout charm and easy humour has made him a cult figure alongside the NOVA breakfast team and the first choice as the resident builder on the Seven Network's DIY show, Room For Improvement.
Travels from New South Wales
Client Comments
Client Comments
- Tom Williams did a great job working on the Extreme Hawaii event, with our team and our group. The delegates enjoyed the group challenge which Tom co-hosted and was excellent in executing his role for that event. Tom also emceed our gala dinner. He worked the crowd and called the event with great professionalism as well as being personable and approachable.
Telstra Enterprise & Government - I would like to formally thank you for your involvement in our Extreme Hawaii event last week. When we selected you as our speaker we were looking for something new and different.
Over the past four years we have selected a number of professional MCs to host our gala dinner event. Each year we have been relatively happy with the outcome... this year, because of you, we were ecstatic!
Your opening speech with tips on Hawaii was told with humour, warmth and a genuine desire to help our delegates as much as possible. The number one reason we brought you in early was so you could mingle and get to know some of the guests. Your open and warm nature, combined with your love of life ensured our people really had an opportunity to mix with you but the fact that you knew the latecomers names to our gala dinner (some of which our own team did not know) totally blew us all away.
I want to personally thank you on behalf of our whole team and the senior management team for an outstanding job. You went above and beyond for our people and I have never experienced such a buzz from the winners as what was described by meeting and interacting with you.
The time you took for photos with our delegates, to the million meetings we asked you to attend, and your brilliant close at the gala dinner meant our people have rated this part of the event the best ever.
I will have no hesitation in recommending you to any corporation in the future and would be more than happy to be a referee if the opportunity arises. It has been an honour to work with you and thank you for being such an important part of our Extreme program in 2008. We look forward to hearing about your future success and would love to work with you again.
Telstra Enterprise and Government
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