Naomi Simson

RedBalloon Days has been inspiring people across Australia and New Zealand with more than 2200 exciting activities ranging from having a personal chef cook for a dinner party of eight at home to learning how to fly a helicopter.
From its beginnings as a hobby business on the side in 2001, Naomi has built RedBalloon Days into a trans-Tasman success story, providing hundreds of corporate programs and thousands of great days out every month. More than 350,000 people have enjoyed a RedBalloon Days experience.
 
Corporate clients book RedBalloon Days experiences when they want to thrill, impress and inspire their people. More than 80 per cent of its customers are organisations who use RedBalloon Days for incentive, reward and recognition, long-term service and customer loyalty programs. This includes organisations such as American Express, HSBC, BMW, Citibank, DaimlerChrysler, SAP, Optus, Goodman Fielders, Qantas, Westpac, BankWest, Commonwealth Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Whirlpool and Intel to name a few.
 
To compliment the experience voucher gift site, RedBalloon launched a real time booking service for activities in Australia. GoDo.com.au. Never has this been done before - bringing together 1800 experience suppliers to publish their activity availability allowing people to book for activities in real time. This business distributes it content to major web site such as Ninemsn, Virgin Blue and Lastminute and many others.
 
Naomi is passionate about pleasure, recognising that if the average life has 27,610 days, how many are truly amazing? She worked in corporate marketing for most of her career holding positions with IBM in New York at World Trade Headquarters, and in Denmark for a leading PC distributor, Compudan (subsidiary of EAC). Naomi has also held senior marketing positions with Apple Computer Australia and Ansett Australia.
 
Naomi is a regular speaker on being an entrepreneur in a fast growing business. She also speaks about what inspires people drawing from the Pleasure Survey results (six to date, the last attracting 3500 respondents) and case studies.