Joining our series on this episode is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ACFS Port Logistics, Arthur Tzaneros. Alongside his father Terry, Arthur launched ACFS in 2005, growing the business over the course of the past two decades to become Australia’s largest private owned container logistics operator. With National operations across transport, warehousing and freight logistics, ACFS has some 1,500 personnel working across company-owned facilities in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane & Auckland, providing a diverse range of services to its blue-chip customers including Bunnings, Coles, Nestle, Kmart & Super Retail Group. Arthur was born in Sydney & attended The Scots College, graduating in 1995 before working across the logistics sector in New South Wales including as General Manager, NSW for Smith Brothers Trade & Transport and NSW Landside Logistics Manager for P&O Transport Australia. In this exclusive interview, Arthur shares the extraordinary journey of ACFS, the opportunities & challenges he’s encountered throughout his business career & the key learnings that have driven his success.

Joining our series for an exclusive feature profile is Jack Hutchinson - Director & Board Member of Australia's oldest & most successful privately-owned construction firm, Hutchinson Builders. Established in 1912, Hutchinson Builders is one of Australia's preeminent construction firms, having completed a remarkable 7,500 projects with an end value in excess of $35bn. Jack is a qualified quantity surveyor and a licenced builder. He holds an MBA from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Property (QS & CM) from Bond University. Before being appointed as a Director in 2022, Jack worked across various project and operational roles within Hutchies, as well as within other property, construction, and financial firms in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Proudly produced by Ready Media Group. https://readymedia.com.au/ https://www.hutchinsonbuilders.com.au/

Our special guest on this episode is prolific hospitality entrepreneur & commercial property investor, Graham Hardie - Chairman & Founder of Hardie Finance Corporation & principal of Entertainment Enterprises. A stalwart of Perth’s business scene for over four decades, Graham established and led more than thirty venues across the City including renowned names such as Paramount, Arcadia, Underground, Bill’s, Empire Bar, Havana & Tiger Lil’s. Graduating from Wesley College, Graham studied accounting, later attaining his Chartered Accountancy qualification and rising to become a Partner at a leading firm before launching his first hospitality venture, Knightsbridge’s Eagle One Nightclub in 1979. 
 Whilst continuing to pursue his hospitality interests via Entertainment Enterprises, Graham also diversified into commercial property investment, acquiring & developing a number of significant assets across Northbridge, South Perth, Perth City and Lathlain. 

In addition to his commercial property & hospitality interests, Graham has also sat on the board of a number of public and private companies and currently serves as a Non Executive Director of Peel Mining. In the first & only interview of his extensive career, Graham takes us through his background, his professional accounting career, his pivot into hospitality & property and the key lessons he’s learnt in both life & business along the journey.

In a rare & exclusive profile, Founder of Costa Asset Management & high-profile member of the revered Costa Family dynasty, Robert Costa joins our series on this episode to discuss his diverse professional career which extends across wholesaling, retail, commercial property investment & philanthropy. The son of Sicilian migrants who commenced their grocery business with the purchase & evolution of Geelong’s Covent Garden in the mid 1930’s (originally established in 1888), Robert was born in Geelong and attended St Mary’s Primary School & later, Lovely Bank’s Chanel College. Upon graduation, he joined the family’s rapidly expanding Costa Group fresh produce business in the 1970’s alongside his brothers Frank & Anthony, with the company rising to become Australia’s largest horticultural and fresh produce supplier over the course of the next four decades. Following more than thirty years in a variety of management positions within Costa Group that focussed predominantly on managing the firm’s asset base & liquidity position, Robert launched a new venture, Costa Asset Management, in 2011 alongside his brother Anthony. Today, Costa Asset Management (CAM) functions primarily as an investment office with a diverse portfolio of assets across fixed income, private equity, venture capital, commercial property investment, property development & international real estate. In addition to Costa AM, Robert & the late Anthony Costa jointly founded their philanthropic enterprise, The Anthony Costa Foundation in 2011 which seeks to make a positive impact in the communities in which the family operates in through providing grants, strategic advisory & resources to a range of causes including homelessness, food insecurity, opportunity in education and mental health. Outside of his corporate interests, Robert has also variously held a number of professional roles including Mayor of Geelong West, Chair of Monash & RMIT University’s Global Reconciliation bodies, Chair of the Geelong Region Innovation and Investment Fund, Director of the Geelong Performing Arts Centre Trust & Life Governor of the Barwon Health Foundation. In this exclusive, in-depth interview, Robert shares the insights & achievements behind his distinguished four-decade plus career as well as the fundamentals involved to achieve sustained success in both business & life. Produced and distributed exclusively by Ready Media Group. Host - Rob Langton https://readymedia.com.au/

Joining our series for an exclusive & in-depth profile on this episode is highly regarded businessman & entrepreneur, John Rothwell AO - Non-Executive Chair, Founding Director & the driving force behind Austal, the World’s largest aluminium shipbuilding company. Having established Austal in Perth, Western Australia in 1988 with no more than five employees & $200,000 in cash, John has grown the company over the past three decades into a global maritime behemoth with over 4,300 personnel delivering over 350 world-class vessels as well as technological solutions for military, commercial and civilian applications - including for the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Marine Corps, Royal Australian Navy, Australian Customs, Government of Saudi Arabia & Euroferrys to name a few. With a customer base that spreads across more than one-hundred operators in fifty-nine Countries, Austal has become one of the most successful businesses in Australian corporate history, with an order book in excess of $2bn per annum, operations spread across seven shipyards in five countries and a share register that includes blue-chip institutional & private companies including BlackRock, Tattarang Ventures, UniSuper, Vanguard & Pendal. As Founding Director of Austal, John has led the business in various capacities throughout its thirty-six-year history including as Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman and since 2008, Non-Executive Chairman. Prior to launching Austal, John founded a small structural engineering company which later became a leisure craft business known as Star Boats in 1972, a company that upended traditional boat-building practices by utilising aluminium rather than fibreglass for its lightweight hulls and which he grew for over a decade before selling to Christopher Skase backed Precision Marine (now Quintex Corporation) in 1984. On a personal level, John migrated aged ten with his family from Holland in 1954 and completed three years of primary / secondary school before entering the workforce at fifteen - over the course of the following eight or so years, he held a number of roles working in steel fabrication, welding, transport & land clearing. In a highly decorated career, John been the recipient of a number of awards including Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2004, Australian Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2002, Western Australia Citizen of the Year in 1999. In this exclusive interview, John walks us through his remarkable career, the evolution of Austal over the course of more than three decades, the opportunities & challenges in running a global manufacturing business from Australia and the fundamentals required to achieve sustained success in both business and life. Produced, licensed & distributed exclusively via Ready Media Group. Host - Rob Langton Further information: https://readymedia.com.au/ https://www.austal.com/ #ausbiz #businessnews #austal #australia #perth

Joining our program on this episode is prolific Western Australian entrepreneur & company director, Michael Malone - Founder of iiNet, the homegrown Australian success story he built to become the Nation’s second largest listed ISP with over 2,000 personnel, over 1m customers & $1bn in annual revenue prior to its sale in 2015 in a circa $1.5bn deal. In this rare & exclusive interview, Michael details his extraordinary personal & professional successes, the journey of iiNet, his unique philosophy and approach to business, the evolution in Western Australia’s start-up scene and what he considers his most seminal achievements. Presented exclusively by Ready Media Group. Host - Rob Langton

A rare and exclusive interview with legendary Perth businessman, John Hughes - Founder & Chief Executive Officer of John Hughes Group. • Founded 1969 • $500m revenue per annum • 540 staff • 2,500 cars sold per month Exclusively presented by Ready Media Group. Host - Rob Langton

Joining our series on this episode is special guest Charlie Bass, Founder of Bass Group & renowned businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. For more than five decades, Charlie has been an instrumental figure in corporate Australia, playing a leading role in the establishment and success of companies in a diverse range of sectors, including mining, resources development, technology & entrepreneurial research. Born in Reading Pennsylvania, Charlie was raised in Florida to entrepreneurial parents, with his father a small business owner who frequently moved the family in pursuit of new opportunities including to Toronto, wherein Charlie later completed his secondary school education. With a passion for the outdoors from a young age, Charlie enrolled in university studies in geology, mining and later mineral processing, completing undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, culminating in a Scholarship to complete a master’s degree at Queens University in Ontario. Following two years working in the US with mining firm Amax Inc, Charlie re-located to Australia in 1978 and began working on Amax’s Mount Newman Iron Ore project, later establishing a software mining company known as MeTech in 1980. Alongside fellow Western Australian business identity, Tony Poli, Charlie Co-Founded Eagle Mining Corporation in 1992, a business that grew throughout the course of the 90’s and fast became one of the most successful local exploration firms, before being acquired five years later in 1997 in a c. $250m deal. Three years later in 2000, the pair combined again to establish Aquila Resources Limited, an ASX-listed business initially focused on gold exploration but that later transitioned into other resources including coal, manganese & iron ore. In 2014, Aquila Resources was acquired in a c. $1.4bn deal between Baosteel-Aurizon, enabling Charlie to pursue a number of external interests and pursuits in the technology, internet & venture capital sectors. Charlie is also the Founder and Managing Director of Eagle Mountain Mining (EM2), a copper focussed exploration and development company which he established in 2017 with the core objective of becoming a low emission producer to supply the rapidly growing green energy market. In 2006, he launched the Bass Family Foundation, a charity vehicle purposely designed to provide education for disadvantaged children (particularly in remote area’s) as well as to provide resources & support to indigenous programs throughout Western Australia. Charlie is also the Founder of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation (CERI), an organisation established in 2015 and which is primarily funded by the Bass Family Foundation to provide targeted programs, grants, events and resources to power the entrepreneurial pursuits and business ideas of future generations of Western Australians. To-date, CERI has raised over $7.5m in funds to support more than 600 aspiring entrepreneurs. Charlie was also named 2024 Senior Western Australian of the Year and invests privately through his family office, Bass Group. Our exclusive interview with Charlie Bass explores his background, his transition from the US to Australia, the key pillars of his success, fundamentals he’s learnt from a lifetime in business and what he regards as his key achievements in a remarkable five-decade long career. Host - Rob Langton | Ready Media Group The Interview - Australia's most watched business series.

Joining our series for a rare and exclusive interview on this episode are Mick Power AM & Scott Power - the father-son pair behind one of Australia’s largest and most successful privately owned urban development & construction firms, the BMD Group. Established in 1979, the BMD Group has grown exponentially throughout the course of more than four decades - from humble beginnings in Brisbane to a leading National business that now boasts an international footprint, encompassing 2000 team members, revenues exceeding $2bn per annum and over fourteen offices positioned strategically across Australia. Though it’s early foundations concentrated largely around providing engineering services on a smaller-scale in the residential subdivision space, the BMD Group has evolved and expanded rapidly, with the firm now incorporating five distinct business divisions, including BMD Constructions, BMD Urban, Empower Engineers & Project Managers, JMac Constructions and Urbex - the sum total of which combine to provide their public, institutional and private clients a full-service offering across the property development, engineering design, transport infrastructure, civil construction and project management sectors. A family business at its core, BMD was established five decades ago as a partnership between Mick Power, his wife Denise, his brother in law Bevin and sister Beverly, and whilst Mick & Denise acquired the remaining shares in the business from Bevin and Beverly twelve-months after launching, the firm’s unwavering commitment to its people remains evident through its emphasis on ‘family’ as a fundamental value within its operating model. Mick Power AM has served as the company’s Founder & Group Board Chairman for more than forty years - he commenced his career aged 19 with Leighton Contractors in 1969 as their first cadet, working on major infrastructure and mining projects as Manager of Central Queensland before steadily rising through the firm to eventually become the Area Manager of the Gold Coast region. Following a decade with Leighton and combined with the firm’s move away from smaller scale (sub-$200k) contracts, Mick saw an opportunity to launch his own business, BMD, and utilising a $12,000 superannuation payment from Leighton, began undertaking lower-priced residential subdivision work with Hooker Rex (now known as Fraser Property Group), completing infrastructure and civil works across a number of residential subdivision projects. In his current role as Group Board Chairman, Mick provides high-level oversight & guidance to the Board of Directors and across the BMD business whilst also having pursued a number of other interests, including 27 years as a Board Member of the South Bank Corporation, Board Member of the Brisbane Lions Football Club, Honorary Ambassador to the City of Brisbane, accreditations by Engineers Australia, Surf Life Saving Foundation Vice Patron, BMD Northcliffe Surf Life Saving Club Patron, Wynnum Golf Club Patron, Honorary Lifetime PGA Membership and Wynnum Manly Leagues Club Patron. Following in his father’s footsteps, Scott Power currently serves as the BMD’s Group Chief Executive Officer, a role he has held since November 2020 following a career of nearly three decades with the company. Scott is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology, having completed a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng., Hons.) as well as a graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, having completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. In addition to leading BMD through its next phase of growth, Scott is a Board Member of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia as well as a Board Member of Australian Owned Contractors. Proudly produced by Ready Media Group.

Joining our series on this episode is prominent company director & corporate advisor, Tony Howarth AO. Tony’s extensive five-decade plus career has taken in the heights of Australia’s financial and banking sectors, including high-profile roles leading renowned organisations Challenge Bank & Hartleys as Chief Executive Officer as well as Chairman positions with Altina Energy and Home Building Society. He has also held a number of board positions including as a Non Executive Director of WesFarmers (2007 - 2019), Deputy Chair of the Bank of Queensland (2007 - 2010), Non Executive Director of private investment vehicle AWB and Non Executive Director and Chair of St John of God Health Care. Across a broad portfolio of current roles, Tony serves as a Board Member of Coventry Group, BWP Trust, Viburnum Funds and Altina Energy. Born in Bathurst, Tony left school in year 10 and joined the local bank branch, studying an accounting degree at Tafe whilst working his way up through the ranks including to General Manager of Community Banking at the State Bank of New South Wales (managing 300 branches) as well as gaining experience in retail & commercial banking in Sydney, London and New York. In 1991, Tony moved to Perth and was appointed Chief General Manager and later, Chief Executive Officer of Challenge Bank, a period which saw him leading the bank through a strong re-build before it was acquired by Westpac four years later in 1995. Since that time, Tony has been a trusted sounding board for both public and private organisations and has built an enviable profile across Perth’s business community. Tony served on the University of Western Australia Senate for 12 years, and was an inaugural Chairman of the University Club and was a key driver in the creation of the UWA Business School where he led the Fund Raising and served as Deputy Chair for over a decade. Tony ‘s community involvement included Chairman of Western Australian Rugby Union; inaugural Chairman of the Committee for Perth; President of both the Western Australian and Australian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the International Chamber of Commerce of Australia. https://readymedia.com.au/ https://www.viburnumfunds.com.au/tony-howarth/

Joining our series for an exclusive profile is Kevin Maloney, Founder & Chairman of family office investment firm, Tulla Group. Born in Sydney in the late 1940’s to parents Joseph, a retired army major who upon discharge, went into the hotel business and Florence Maloney, Kevin was one of eight siblings whose early exposure to business was formed through his parent’s acquisition and management of the Zetland Hotel as well as their interests in horse-racing, a passion which continues to be prevalent throughout his life today. From humble beginnings in Sydney’s western suburbs, Kevin left school at age fifteen and began working as a clerk at ANZ, progressing through the firm to become the youngest person in its history to be appointed to a management role. During this time, Kevin’s thirst for hard work and his ambitious nature began to take shape, working full time at ANZ whilst also juggling roles three other part-time roles including as a poke machine attendant at the South Sydney Junior Leagues Club, a bookies clerk, and a taxi driver. Following a two-decade career with ANZ, Kevin left the firm and became a Founding Executive Director and the inaugural Chief Executive of Elders Resources Finance in 1986, a business which provided capital to finance resource projects across the World to the tune of more than $4bn in the gold, oil, gas, forestry, and silver industries. In the early 1990’s, Kevin established Tulla Group, a private investment vehicle to direct a number of ventures including diverse forays into jewellery, retail apparel, copper mining and building materials. By 1996, Kevin foresaw a unique opportunity to provide high-quality accommodation services to mining sites across Australia, launching MAC Services Group, a business which specialised in prefabricated buildings and constructed villages for mining communities via its seed asset in Queensland’s Moranbah. Over the course of the decade, MAC Services Group grew to encompass over 3,300 rooms across five villages, with revenues exceeding $69m per annum, ultimately culminating in the decision to float the business on the stock exchange in April of 2007. Under Kevin and his son Mark’s leadership, MAC Services continued to expand throughout Australia post public listing, with new villages opened in Western Australia whilst rooms under management exceeded 5,000 for the first time. In December of 2010, MAC Services (The MAC) was acquired by Oil States International Inc in a $689m deal, with investors receiving four times their money back in just three years whilst sowing the seeds for Tulla Group’s next chapter as a family office. Tulla Group is today one of Australia’s most successful and diversified family offices, with investments across mining and resources, technology, racehorse breeding, property & venture capital. Our discussion with Kevin charts his background, his early business successes and challenges, the extraordinary rise of MAC Services, his key career achievements, and the investment focus of his family office. Produced, licensed & distributed exclusively via Ready Media Group Host - Rob Langton The Interview | Australia's flagship business series.

Our special guest on this episode is highly-respected corporate advisor and doyen of Western Australia’s business community, Mr. John Poynton AO. In a diverse career that encapsulates a range of industry sectors including investment banking, corporate advisory, stockbroking and private investment, John has been an instrumental figure for over four decades, establishing an enviable track-record as a strong deal-maker and confidant to leading organisations from throughout Australia. https://readymedia.com.au/

Joining our series for a rare and exclusive profile is special guest, billionaire Shesh Ghale - Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MIT Group, renowned property developer & global philanthropist. In an extraordinary tale of success defined by resilience, adaptation and hard-work, Shesh has risen from a childhood spent in the rugged mountains of Nepal in the early 1960’s through to an early education in the Former USSR of Ukraine, ultimately culminating in the decision to re-locate to Australia in 1990 and embarking on a career-defining pursuit into the educational and property investment industries. Following his high school education in Nepal, Shesh moved to Ukraine and studies a Bachelor / Master of Civil Engineering at Kharkiv National University on a Government Scholarship, graduating in 1986 before returning to Nepal to work as a project engineer in the Government’s transport department. Seeking greater access to career opportunities, Shesh then moved to Australia in 1990 and embarked on further study, enrolling in a Master of Business Administration degree at Victoria University graduating in 1994 - his wife, Jamuna Gurung followed and re-located to Australia in 1991. Having experienced first hand the quality of education offered through the university system in Western countries, Shesh identified an opportunity to provide world-class study pathways largely targeted toward international students in Melbourne, therein establishing the Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1996 alongside Jamuna. Over the course of the past twenty-five years, Shesh & Jamuna have grown MIT into one of Australia’s most successful private tertiary education institutions, with purpose-built campuses in both Melbourne & Sydney and a cohort of over four-thousand students per annum. Capitalising on their natural entrepreneurial institution, the pair began investing in commercial property in the early 2000’s, successfully acquiring and divesting of multiple assets across Melbourne’s CBD including Tomasetti House, The Argus Building, Sir Charles Hotham Building, 386 - 412 William Street, 388 Lonsdale Street and 154 - 158 Sussex Street in Sydney’s CBD amongst others. In addition to his extensive domestic property interests, Shesh also has a number of investments globally including Sheraton Kathmandu Nepal held through his family office, The Ghale Group - he has also donated his time and considerable resources to a number of philanthropic and community-based organisations. Our exclusive interview with Shesh Ghale explores his background, his passion for education, his deal-making in the commercial property sector and the key ingredients that have enabled him to become one of Australia’s most successful individuals. Host - Rob Langton Producer - Ready Media Group

Our guest on this episode is highly respected businessman, corporate advisor and private investor, Mark Barnaba AM. A trusted advisor in both public and private-sector capacities, Mark’s career extends across a range of institutions wherein his diverse experiences in management consulting & investment banking have been a valuable commodity for organisations for more than three decades. 

 Mark enrolled in a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Western Australia, graduating with High Distinction (winning the JA Wood University Medal) in 1985 before enrolling in an MBA at the revered Harvard Business School where he graduated with the highest distinction. After recognising Mark’s remarkable academic achievements, business heavyweight and legendary Australian figure Alan Bond employed him as an executive assistant, wherein he worked directly with Alan and his Bond Corporation for a period of two years. In the early 1990’s, Mark joined McKinsey & Company and worked across the firm’s operations for a period of five years including in its London, Johannesburg, and Sydney offices. 

 Following his return to Perth, he co-founded banking & advisory firm Poynton & Partners alongside John Poynton in 1996, with their pair (alongside others) simultaneously launching a subsidiary known as GEM Consulting. 

 Alongside the growth of Poynton & Partners throughout the late 1990’s, GEM Consulting became Perth’s leading corporate advisory and financial services business having been intricately involved in major transactions including across the mining, technology, resources, and commercial property sectors. Under the stewardship of Mark & John, GEM Consulting was acquired by AST Group South Africa in 2001 in a $44m deal. In 2004, Mark Co-Founded Azure Capital, an independently owned, specialist advisory firm he led as Co-Executive Chair for seven years prior to selling his stake in 2010. Mark served as the Inaugural Chairman of the University of Western Australia Business School Board for a period of eighteen years (2002 - 2020) and was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University in 2012.

 In 2012, Mark was appointed Chairman of Macquarie Group Western Australia, Chairman & Global Head, Resources Group & Chairman, Corporate & Asset Finance of Macquarie Group by then Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Moore AO - positions he held for a period of six years until 2017.
 Since 2010, Mark has served as a Non-Executive Director of Fortescue Metals Group Limited in addition to Lead Independent Director (2014) and Deputy Chair (2017). In August 2017, Mark was appointed to the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and currently Chairs the Reserve Bank Board Audit Committee. Mark has also variously been Chairman of Western Power, Edge Employment, Alinta Infrastructure Holdings, the Black Swan State Theatre Company of Western Australia. He is also a Senior Advisor of EY Oceania, Chairman of the Investment Committee for HBF and Chairman of Greatland Coal. He also holds an extensive number of other positions including as Chair of GLX, Chair of the Investments Committee at HBF. Senior Advisor of EY Oceania, Senior Advisor of Appian Capital Advisory and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. Our exclusive interview with Mark unpacks his diverse career journey, from successfully launching his own ventures, to working with some of Australia’s largest and most revered institutions, he openly shares the fundamentals required to achieve success as well as the crucial lessons he’s learnt from more than three decades in business. Proudly produced and distributed exclusively by Ready Media Group.

Our special guest on this episode is Rod Jones - Co-Founder of global education provider Navitas & Executive Chairman of Hoperidge Capital. Unquestionably one of Perth's leading business figures for more than three decades, Rod's remarkable career has scaled the heights of the education industry, initially through the launch of IBT Education and the Perth Institute of Business Technology. In the 1990's, the business was renamed Navitas and launched globally into the UK, Europe, Canada and the US, before listing on the ASX for $1 per share in 2004 and with a market capitalisation of $350m. By day’s end, the share price had more than doubled to $2.40, valuing the business in excess of $800m. Fast forward over the next decade and Rod led the business as Chief Executive Officer for some twenty-four years until 2018, navigating multiple economic and political cycles including constant changes in policy & direction both domestically and internationally. In 2019, BGH Capital engineered one of the largest ever buyouts by an Australian private equity firm, acquiring Navitas and taking the company private in a $2.3bn enterprise deal, with shares ultimately valued at $5.825. Utilising his expertise and financial resources, Rod now overseas his family office, Hoperidge Capital, a private investment vehicle with diversified holdings across the property, education, technology, medical innovation and energy sectors. The Interview - Australia's flagship business series. Host - Rob Langton Produced & distributed exclusively by Ready Media Group. Further Information: https://www.navitas.com/ https://hoperidge.com.au/ https://readymedia.com.au/

Our guest on this episode is prolific Adelaide investor and developer, Anthony Lenzi, Managing Director of Thirteen Commercial. Thirteen Commercial is a dynamic construction and development company, founded by Adelaide entrepreneur Anthony Lenzi, who has more than eighteen years experience developing small and large scale properties across Adelaide. Headquartered in Flinders Park, Thirteen Commercial is spearheading several high profile industrial and commercial developments, throughout the Adelaide CBD and inner west.

Our special guest on this episode is globally respected business leader, Nicholas Moore AO. In a remarkable corporate career that extends across more than three decades, Nicholas has established a formidable track record of success, predicated on an innate ability to recognise opportunity across investment markets well ahead of the curve. Having been appointed in the depths of the Global Financial Crisis, Nicholas transformed the Macquarie Group business as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director over the course of the ensuing decade (2008 - 2018) - de-risking the business model through strategic acquisition, global expansion into funds management & infrastructure investment, and an emphasis on annuity-style income. In unquestionably one of the firm’s most defining decades across it’s storied fifty-year history, Nicholas ushered in a new era for Macquarie Group - building upon the firm’s unique risk management framework and celebrated bottom- up approach to the identification of opportunity and employee empowerment, he steered the organisation’s presence on a global stage, perhaps most distinctly illustrated via the lifting of the firm’s international income by 67 percent, a portfolio of assets under management that exceeded $550bn, a revenue base through which 70% of income was derived offshore and a 300 percent increase in shareholder returns - an extraordinary legacy of success. Following a thirty-three year career at Macquarie Group, including close to eleven years as CEO, Nicholas stepped down in 2018 and began focusing on a number of projects and ventures that presented him with new opportunity to contribute his considerable skillset & expertise across both public and professional life. In November 2022, Nicholas was appointed by the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, to the role of Special Envoy for South-East Asia to deepen economic engagement with Australia’s neighbours across the Asia-Pacific region. Nicholas currently holds several significant chairmanships and directorships, including Chairman of Willow Technology Corporation, Screen Australia, The Centre for Independent Studies, The Smith Family and the National Catholic Education Commission. He is also a member of the NSW Business School Advisory Council and an Honorary Doctorate in Business from the University of New South Wales. Previously, he served as the Chairman of PCYC NSW for a period of over a decade (2002 - 2015) as well as the Sydney Opera House Trust (2015 - 2020).

Nicholas is a confidant and valued sounding board for Prime Ministers, Premiers, and business leaders across Australia, having been engaged to provide strategic advice across M&A, corporate finance, receivership and banking matters. He is also the Chairman & Founder of the Moore Family Office, his private investment vehicle. In a rare and exclusive profile, Nicholas discusses his incredible journey, from re-shaping a global financial powerhouse with over 15,000 employee’s across the World, to leading some of Australia’s most important philanthropic organisations - sharing the key lessons for success, and life, along the way.

Our special guest on this episode is Terry Snow AM - Executive Chairman of Capital Airport Group, Co-Founder & Chair of the Snow Foundation & Owner of Willinga Park.
 Terry’s journey in both business & in life is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most remarkable & enduring - born in Canberra in 1943 to a family with a rich heritage and attachment to the ACT that dates back over two generations to his grandfather E.R Snow, the proprietor of the region’s first general store known as ‘Snows’, Terry has established a formidable career over the past sixty years that has changed the landscape for generations to come. 
 Following graduation from Canberra Grammar School in 1961, Terry re-located to Melbourne and enrolled in an accountancy degree, later practising as a certified accountant in Canberra before finding the monotony of the profession limiting as compared with his love of dealing with people. 
 In the 1970’s, a career change led him to real estate, a profession far more suited to his engaging personality and a field in which he excelled at over the course of a number of years. Utilising the skills he’d learnt from this period of his life, he then turned his hand to property development, initially through the development of small industrial projects before later building larger office assets through Capital Property Trust (CPT) - a vehicle established alongside his brother George that followed in the footsteps of their father’s business, Capital Property Group. 
 Throughout the course of the 1980’s and early 1990’s & under the stewardship of Terry & George, Capital Property Trust grew to become the largest non-government owner of property in the ACT, incorporating over eleven assets, underpinned predominantly by long-term leases from Government tenants.
 The burgeoning success of CPT seeded the establishment of the Snow Foundation in 1991 with an initial $1m contribution, a philanthropic organisation that over the past three decades has assisted over four-hundred-and-fifty organisations through over $68m in disbursements - a division of the family’s diverse interests that remains one of its cornerstones. 
 By 1996, Terry & George had grown Capital Property Trust into a business with over $530m of funds under management, laying the foundations for Mirvac to acquire a majority stake in a circa $70m deal, a transaction that enabled the pair to move away from the challenges that surround listed company ownership. 
 Utilising the proceeds from the sale of CPT, Terry purchased Canberra Airport from the Federal Government in May of 1998 in a $65m transaction - a deal that has gone down in Australian corporate history as one of the most astute, with his private company Capital Airport Group transforming the site through more than $1bn of investment from sheep paddocks to an integrated accommodation, industrial, office, business park and aerotropolis precinct now valued in excess of $3.0bn. 
 Alongside the remarkable growth of Canberra Airport over the past two-decades, Capital Property Group has undertaken a number of other precinct-defining projects including Constitution Place, Civic and the mixed-use Denman Prospect development to name a few - additionally, the group has also supported several early-stage firms through the strategic deployment of capital. 
 In 2002 and spurned on by a long-held family association with the area, Terry began amassing landholdings in Bawley Point to create a 2300-acre equestrian parkland now known as Willinga Park - arguably the World’s finest equestrian precinct that also encompasses commercial farming, conferencing, training, and restaurant facilities. 
 Our exclusive interview with Terry Snow AM explores his background, the evolution of Capital Property Group, his passion for philanthropy, the key drivers for success in both life and business and how both the Snow Foundation and Capital Airport Group are embarking on their next stage of growth.

An exclusive interview with Mark Couter - financial services specialist & Chief Executive Officer of diversified family office, Vitocco Enterprises.

Joining our series for a rare & exclusive interview are special guests, Johnny and Markus Kahlbetzer - members of one of Australia’s most remarkable and enduring business dynasty’s. Our exclusive discussion delves into the family’s legacy, the major successes & challenges they’ve encountered along the journey, analysis of key deals and transactions across their respective businesses and the sectors & industries within which they see opportunities for investment in the years to come. The Interview - Australia's Flagship Business Series. Proudly produced, licensed & distributed exclusively via Ready Media Group. Further information: https://readymedia.com.au/ https://www.twynam.com/ https://bridgelane.com.au/