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Talking Business with Alan Kohler
by Qantas
Talking Business is an inflight entertainment radio program on Qantas, hosted by Alan Kohler. Each month business leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators are interviewed about their expertise, businesses, and careers. This is where you can podcast all of the guests from Talking Business.
Episodes
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Fred Schebesta Co-Founder of Finder.com.au
Fred is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, most famous for co-founding Australia's leading personal finance comparison website Finder. With business partner, Frank Restuccia, the pair bootstrapped Finder in 2006 and grew the business to be worth about $250 million, operating in 83 countries,...
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Margot Andersen CEO and Founder of Insync Network Group and Owner & Managing Director of Talentinsight
Insync Network Group is an Australian-based community of returned expats. A recent study found that the majority of Australia's returning expats struggle to re-settle in Australia, which is one of the reasons why this community was started three years ago. Since, it has grown to cover three…
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Daniel Milford Managing Director Chironix
Daniel is the Managing Director of Chironix which operates throughout A/NZ and the USA. He has a deep interest in artificial intelligence, space technologies, mobile robotics, human memory, cyber operations, cognitive studies & social processes. Daniel also served for two years in the Navy…
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Jens Goennemann Managing Director Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre
The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) is a not-for-profit, industry-led organisation that was formed as part of the Federal Government’s Growth Centres initiatives and tasked with supporting (and advancing) Australian manufacturing in all of its forms. Part of that task was to set out…
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Murray Ellen Founder PT Blink Ltd.
PT Blink is a technology platform that enables multi-storey developments to be built very quickly, via its unique Design, Manufacture & Integrate (DMI) process. It is a quantum leap for the Property Development Market. The open nature of the PT Blink DMI Platform encourages a local community of...
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Gregory Story Partner at Sustainable Energie Partners
Greg has been involved in the development, financing and operation of large infrastructure projects, particularly energy generation, for over 25 years. Initially he was involved in conventional energy generation and transmission followed by renewable energy projects including; Biomass projects in...
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Neville Vincent Vice President South Asia Pacific Nutanix
Neville Vincent is Vice President, South Asia Pacific at enterprise cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure leader Nutanix. An industry veteran, Vincent is a senior entrepreneurial sales leader with more than 20 years’ experience across the Asia Pacific. He joined Nutanix in August 2018 and is...
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Marty Andrews Chargefox CEO & co-founder
Chargefox, a technology driven business that’s simplifying electric vehicle charging and management across fleet, private and public networks. Chargefox is constructing Australia’s largest, open ultra-rapid EV charging network and by the end of 2019, its public network will allow EV owners to…
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Dr. Bronwyn King AO Founder & CEO at Tobacco Free Portfolios & Radiation Oncologist
Dr. King is a specialist Radiation Oncologist, founder of Tobacco Free Portfolios, a former elite swimmer and Team Doctor for the Australian Swimming Team. Social entrepreneur, movement maker and a globally renowned humanitarian on a mission to inspire and transform organisations into purpose...
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Justin Scanlon Managing Director Hearth Support Services
Founded in 2017, Hearth provides high-quality support services for people with a disability, with a focus on people with more complex disabilities. Today, the Melbourne-based business employs more than 250 staff. The types of support services Hearth provides its customers (or ‘participants’) with...
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Carla Offord CEO of The Conference Shop
Carla's business is known as a venue finder. Big businesses go to her to find out where they should host their events, conference, meetings. The website covers venues and meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE). The regional conferencing solution allows conference organisers to...
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Adrian O'Connell CEO Standards Australia
Adrian is the CEO for Standards Australia, the nation’s peak standards development body. Established over 100 years ago, Standards Australia ensures everything from sunscreen to energy grids and cyber security has a certified standard. Throughout his time with Standards, Adrian has witnessed a...
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JC DeBeaulieu Head of Investments, Australia at Acadian Asset Management
Jean-Christophe (JC) de Beaulieu joined the business in February as Head of Investments, Australia and Zhe Chen joined late last year as Associate Portfolio Manager, Research. Acadian Australia is wholly-owned by Acadian Asset Management LLC (collectively, Acadian). Acadian Asset Management LLC…
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Aid Rawlins Managing Director, Mazuma Mobile Australia
Mazuma Mobile are the UK and Australia’s largest and most recognised independent Mobile Phone trade in company and has bought and sold over five million USED Mobile phones, tablets and smart devices. To date the bulk of those have been from UK consumers however, Australian businesses are now...
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Brad Parsons CEO & Founder MOVUS
MOVUS is a Brisbane company that develops and provides an intelligent device that monitors the condition of industrial equipment. The MOVUS FitMachine is attached to industrial machinery and uses a sensor to monitor the machine’s vibration, temperature and acoustics. It sends an alert, using...
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Rade Musulin Principal at Finity Consulting , Spokesman for the Actuaries Institute Climate Index & Member of the Climate Change Working Group
Rade was based in the USA, in Florida, and knows well the perils of natural disasters. His interests include changing population demographics and catastrophe exposure, climate change adaptation, disaster planning and modelling. He has a lot of experience with storm pathways and hurricanes, and…
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Ray Brown Principal & CEO Architectus
With 30 years of experience, Ray Brown is actively involved in strategy, design, and oversight of projects, working across multiple teams in mixed-use commercial, residential, education, and cultural sectors. Sensitive to how buildings relate to their surroundings, Ray understands urban context…
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Suzanne Milthorpe National Environment Laws Campaign Manager, The Wilderness Society
Suzanne is a highly skilled campaigner and member of the Places You Love Alliance leadership team, Suzanne is an expert in national environmental policy and regulation. She has leveraged her background as a trained ancient historian and senior policy officer in the federal public service to hone...
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Stuart Clout CEO and Founder thedocyard
Before founding thedocyard, Stuart practised as a corporate lawyer both in a large law firm partnership with Colin Biggers & Paisley in Sydney and in-house with the Tesco Group, a Fortune 100 company in London. With over 15 years’ experience as a corporate transactional lawyer and as an admitted...
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Sarah Liu Founder & Managing Director of The Dream Collective
Sarah Liu is the founder and MD of global diversity and inclusion consultancy agency, The Dream Collective. She began her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 24 when she founded The Dream Collective. What began as a mere passion project, quickly became Australia’s most influential network of...
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Travis Osborne Founder & CEO Mobile Tyre Shop
Travis Osborne, the CEO of Mobile Tyre Shop. As the name suggests, he has a fleet of 40 vehicles that will go to a person's work or home and change their car tyres. Travis got a fair bit of publicity in 2015 when he went on Shark Tank and two sharks agreed to buy into the business. Back then his...
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Daniel Ziffer Reporter, ABC News, author ‘A Wunch of Bankers: a year in the Hayne Royal Commission’
Dan Ziffer covered the Hayne royal commission for ABC radio, TV, and online. He was formerly the long-time senior producer of 'Mornings with Jon Faine', at ABC Radio Melbourne, and has worked on air and in production at Macquarie Radio, as a freelance foreign correspondent based in New York City…
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Ben Zeccola CEO Palace Cinemas
Ben is an experienced leader focused on creating value, by providing the kind of experiences that leave customers, the company and the community better off. An entrepreneurial problem solver who delights in promoting the talent of the people around him, further enabling them to make their own...
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Karen Stephen Chief Operations Officer SurePayd
SurePayd is a cloud-based payments layer for B2B accounts receivable, an area of the business where customer experiences are often negative.Karen on SurePayd:“When it comes to enterprise accounts, this means chasing payments, sending notifications, managing disputes or running reports that…
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Marie Lam-Frendo Global Infrastructure Hub CEO
Marie has been in the role as the leader of the G20’s only dedicated infrastructure organisation for nearly a year now and has great insights to share about the organisation, its key pillars and new initiatives moving into 2020. Marie was previously the head of APAC for Atkins Acuity, the…
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Michelle Schuberg General Manager & Brett Heil Founder at Curiious
Curiious is a Sydney company which has created a world-first educational VR platform in which educators and trainers can directly provide feedback and change the virtual environment live. The compelling part of the story here is the company’s pivot and how they got into the VR space to begin…
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Kristina Karlsson Founder & Creative Director kikki.K
Kristina started the global Swedish design and stationery business, kikki.K in 2001 and now has 102 kikki.K stores, stocked in another 250, and sold online to stationery and design lovers in over 147 countries worldwide. She’s also a sought-after international speaker, a passionate learner,...
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Andrew Horvath Group Global Chairman Star Scientific
Star Scientific is an Australian owned hydrogen energy company working on how humanity can transition to a new energy economy. Star Scientific has created the Hydrogen Energy Release Optimiser (HERO®), which produces unlimited, affordable, safe and reliable energy – with zero emissions. In the…
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Nathan Begley Managing Director, Upstream Energy
Nathan founded Upstream Energy in 2013 after fifteen years’ experience in urban firefighting and emergency response with Fire and Rescue New South Wales. His leadership in focusing growth by helping customers has been the driving force behind the opportunity Upstream now presents. Nathan…
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Tessa Court CEO & Co-Founder of IntelligenceBank
Tessa is the Founder and CEO of award-winning SaaS company IntelligenceBank, a business process management business that helps companies reduce their risk and manage compliance. As a former marketer herself, Tessa sought to create an easy to use platform for marketing teams that would enable them...
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Glenn Campbell Executive Director & CEO DeakinCo.
Glenn has worked within the government and education industry as a senior executive, internal consultant and change agent, including operating his own management advisory business. He uses his skills and knowledge pragmatically to improve businesses, positioning them for better performance. His...
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Mark Calabro Co-Founder of HungryHungry & Ordermate
Sharing food has always been central to Mark Calabro’s life. Growing up in a large Italian family, Mark had a childhood of witnessing the bonding magic of food – where sharing was caring – and it gave the marketing, sales and client relationship head an appreciation for the role of good food in...
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Kylie Porter Executive Director UN Global Compact Network Australia
Kylie Porter is the Executive Director of the Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA). Kylie is a sustainability expert with over 15 years of experience in corporate affairs, sustainability and strategy roles across a broad range of industries. During her career, Kylie has provided advice on...
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Professor Susan Hurley Epidemiologist, Health Economist, Statistician, Pharmacist & Author
Susan decided to turn her hand to creative writing after a long career in medical research, public health advocacy and the pharmaceutical industry. She holds Master’s degrees in pharmacy and biostatistics, a PhD in epidemiology and health economics, and was a National Health and Medical Research...
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Jason Ireland Partner at McGrathNicol Advisory
Jason is a Partner at McGrathNicol Advisory & has more than two decades of experience working with clients to help improve operational and financial performance. He specialises in operational efficiency, independent business reviews, risk management, forecasting and modelling, cash and working...
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Anita Mustac Managing Director, LaSalle Investment Management (Australia & NZ)
Anita joined LaSalle in October 2017 as a Client Executive within the Client Capital Group. She is responsible for managing and developing relationships with clients and prospective clients in Australia and New Zealand and is based in the Sydney Office. Anita brings six years of investment…
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Bill Baker Co-Founder & CEO of Lend.com.au
The Lend platform is set to transform the SME finance market through automating the process of matching a lender with an SME, using a sophisticated combination of AI and analytics. In addition to this, Lend has also launched LendScore – an industry first tool exclusively available to brokers...
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Justin Quay Founder & Head of Product at Shroogle
Shroogle is a one-stop, fully connected personal finance hub in response to the findings of the Hayne Royal Commission into the financial services industry. The Melbourne-based fintech recently launched the first of a broad range of online financial services to provide increased access to...
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Richard Murray Group CEO JB Hi-Fi
Richard is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in retail and finance. He joined JB Hi-Fi as CFO in 2003 and took the business through the IPO process. Prior to this Richard was an Associate Director, in the Corporate Finance Group of Deloitte. Richard was appointed to the Board…
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Merril J. Fernando Founder & Dilhan C. Fernando CEO of Dilmah Tea
Merrill J. Fernando was amongst the first group of Ceylonese to learn the art of tea tasting. Similarly laudable is the philosophy around which he formed his brand – making business a matter of human service. That philosophy is fulfilled in the work of his MJF Charitable Foundation which uses a...
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Christian Westerlind Wigstrom Head of Monoova
Christian has worked as a speech writer and economic advisor in the House of Lords. Was ‘Chief of Staff and Markets’ at an agriculture and renewable-energy company in Zimbabwe. Has consulted for firms in Iraq, Sweden, the US and the UK. Holds numerous degrees including a PhD in International...
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Khali Sakkas Chief Insights Officer at Isentia
Isentia (ASX:ISD) is a leading integrated Media Intelligence and Insights business with operations in 11 markets. Isentia blends market-leading monitoring experience with analytics to help the world’s biggest brands uncover the whole picture – and act on it. Powered by cutting-edge technology and…
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James Mawhinney Founder and Managing Director of Mayfair 101
James Mawhinney is the founder and Managing Director of Mayfair 101, an international investment group with a portfolio spanning more than 11 countries. He has substantial commercial experience in local and overseas markets in investment management, mergers & acquisitions, initial public…
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Laura Keily Founder & Managing Director of Immediation
Laura Keily, the founder of Immediation (and also a commercial barrister), who is looking to disrupt the old school / outdated legal industry. The recently launched Immediation is a world-first Australian platform aiming to modernise the archaic court system by moving legal disputes online and...
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Peter Chidiac Managing Director A/NZ, Avaya
Avaya builds open, converged and innovative solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration – in the cloud, on-premise or a hybrid of both. They are a technology company that deliver Experiences that Matter. Peter discusses a report conducted by Vanson Bourne for Avaya, that...
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Mina Radhakrishnan Co-Founder of :Different
Mina Radhakrishnan is the co-founder of proptech start up :Different, the homegrown company on a mission to rebuild property management in Australia. The current property management model is built on charging unnecessarily high fees to property owners, while delivering sub-par experiences....
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Michael Whytlaw Founder & Director of Advanced Design Innovations
Michael Whytlaw is founder of Wodonga based Advanced Design Innovations and has over 20 years experience working as a Mechanical Engineer, 9 of which has been in Bespoke and Customised Engineering. He has worked on Projects in NSW, SA, Qld and Victoria, and more recently has picked up projects...
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Tracy Angwin CEO Australian Payroll Association
Australian Payroll Association is Australia’s leading network in payroll training, consulting and advisory for employers. It offers end-to-end payroll process reviews, compliance auditing, specialist recruitment services, payroll qualifications and training courses, and a membership program. She...
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Ramez Naam Co-Chair, Energy & Environment at Singularity University & Christina Gerakiteys Co-CEO SingularityU Australia
Ramez Naam is part of the US based Singularity University & believes that using exponential technologies can help solve environmental and natural resource challenges of climate change, energy, water, and food. This would be particularly beneficial for Australia’s farming sector. Christina...
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David Braga BNP Paribas CEO Securities Services Australia & NZ
BNP Paribas Securities Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group, is a leading global custodian and securities services provider. Backed by the BNP Paribas Group they provide multi-asset post-trade and asset servicing solutions for buy and sell-side market participants,...
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Talking Business is an inflight entertainment radio program on Qantas, hosted by Alan Kohler. Each month business leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators are interviewed about their expertise, businesses, and careers. This is where you can podcast all of the guests from Talking Business.
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