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In this week’s episode Charlie and Will are joined by Ross Israel (Head of Global Infrastructure at QIC). The discussion unpacks: - The motives behind his transition from tax to finance - His experience working overseas and how this held him in good stead for the privatisation of many of Australia’s government owned assets - The establishment and growth of QIC’s Infrastructure team from two desks...

Our next guest debuted for QLD in State of Origin at just 18 years of age and now heads up the organization that is Queensland Rugby League. Although Ben Ikin began his sporting pursuits as a keen AFL player, his transition to rugby league came as a result of his time spent battling away in interschool sport, where he quickly showed potential and was thrust into the rugby league pathway. Whilst in...

Campbell Newman, whether you like him or not has certainly done a lot in the world of business and politics. In this episode Campbell is generous enough to take us behind the scenes of what it is like to have a career in the heavily scrutinised sector. Campbell’s insights are from the perspective of someone who has performed roles in both the private and public sectors – a unique characteristic to...

Today’s guest is literal career rocket scientist Michael Smart – chief technology officer and co-founder of Hypersonix. A world leader in scramjet technology, Michael spent 10 years as a Research Scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center: Scramjet Branch. A pioneer in scramjet engine and hypersonic vehicle design, Michael was awarded Australia’s top scholar in his field of Aviation & Aeros...

This week, Charlie and Will were lucky enough to be joined by Llew Jury. Llew successfully founded and exited two businesses in his time including leading web design, app development and digital agency Alfresco in 2006 followed by his successful development and sale of digital marketing agency Reload Group to Hardie Grant Media in 2022. Now Llew puts his time into his role as Founder and Executive...

This week’s episode is the greatest insight into a career in investment banking available. Will and Charlie are joined by one of Australia’s most highly regarded investment bankers, Tim Foy. From the mouth of a long-lived investment banker, the discussion unpacks Tim’s journey into investment banking, what it is like working on a live deal, and finally we yield some invaluable advice for aspiratio...

On today's podcast, Charlie and Will were lucky enough to be joined by Playbook Co-Founder Chelsea Murphy. Playbook is an online marketplace that connects people who love playing sport to coaches and mentors so they build confidence and enjoy the sport they play. Chelsea and husband, Kieren's journey of building Playbook from the ground up, with numerous challenges along the way - includin...

On this week's podcast, Will and Charlie learnt about one of the most pressing issues facing contact sports in across the world. The man aiming to fix this problem by putting objective data around the detection and prevention of concussions is Mike Vegar - CEO and Founder of HitIQ. Through specialised high-tech and highly accurate sensors implanted in a mouthguard, HitIQ's technology can m...

On today’s podcast, Will and Charlie were lucky enough to be able to sit down with rugby league legend, turned highly successful businessman, Darren Lockyer and his equally as successful business partner Grant Wechsel. During the interview we delve into a side of Darren Lockyer’s life that is underexplored – his illustrious business career. We hear the story of how Grant approached Darren and conv...

In this week's episode, Will and Charlie get to talk to one of Australia's more successful property investors - Warren Ebert - the founder and CEO of Sentinel Property Group. On the podcast, we get to unpack how Warren has built Sentinel Property Group to become the largest private property fund in Australia. Warren's story of how he got started in property is fascinating and his obses...

This week on The Business Of we had the privilege of interviewing Australian sporting legend Kieren Perkins OAM. With Kieren, we got into the simultaneously lucky and unlucky story of how he started swimming, his transition from athlete to executive and go into his current role as head of the AIS and ASC. Since his time in the pool, Kieren has held executive positions within NAB Personal Bank, Pre...

Graham Turner, affectionately known as Skroo, grew up in Stanthorpe driving tractors from 7 years of age before studying veterinary science. Hardly the typical upbringing of one of Australia’s best business people. In 1973, Skroo and 2 mates made the decision to buy a run-down double-decker bus for 650 pounds while travelling in England. One bus turned into two and so on until they formed Top Deck...

A beer with Sir Richard Branson, 8 beer coasters and 1 dream to take Virgin Airlines to Australia. In this week's episode, we were able to sit down with Brett Godfrey to hear about his career to date. We delved into how his career began, how he came up with the idea to take Virgin Airlines to Australia, the execution of this plan, and then talked about some of his current business interests. In th...

In this week’s episode, Charlie and Will are joined by Ani Satchcroft to discuss her role as Senior Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Investments, Real Assets ANZ at Macquarie. Some of the key talking points include Ani’s passion for investments that impact communities on a grand scale, what it was that drew her to a career in infrastructure financing at Macquarie, and her thoughts for amb...

In this week's episode, Will and Charlie were lucky enough to be able to join the founders of the incredibly successful Equity Mates Media - Bryce Leske and Alec Renehan - in their studio in Sydney. Throughout the episode, we learn about what brought Alec and Bryce to start an investing podcast, how they have helped break down the barriers to get started investing and what their future plans a...

Nathan Bell joins Will and Charlie to discuss how he went from a role as financial analyst at Deutsche Bank into work at Intelligent Investor where he has worked his way to Portfolio Manager. Recently, Nathan has been a key part in the launch of Intelligent Investor’s new fund The Intelligent Investor Select Value fund, an actively managed ETF that can invest in market leading companies locally an...

In this week's episode, Charlie and Will were able to sit down with Terry Svenson - the CEO of QLD Cricket. The boys talk about how he runs the complex operation that is QLD cricket, his thoughts on privatising the BBL - which is very topical at the moment - and how he approaches domestic players leaving QLD cricket to pursue overseas opportunities. Terry has had a fascinating career thus far...

A holiday! Something we could all do with.  This week’s podcast unwraps all things to do with tourism as current Experience Co. (ASX:EXP) CEO and former Tourism Australia Managing Director John O’Sullivan joins Will Chapman and Charlie Selth to unpack the state of the industry, pathways into working in tourism/entertainment, and John educates us on Experience Co. and its future as one of Australia...

In today's episode, Will and Charlie were lucky enough to sit down with the Principal of one of Australia's top schools, Jacinda Euler from Brisbane Girls Grammar. In this episode, Jacinda outlines her career pathway to teaching and we gain key insights into how BGGS consistently ranks in the top schools in Australia academically. As Jacinda stresses to us though, students' experience at BGGS is a...

On this episode of The Business Of, Will and Charlie were lucky enough to be joined by Australian business royalty, Glen Richards. On this podcast, the boys discuss the story behind how Greencross Vets started, Glen's current interests and what he looks for when investing in a company, how he became a shark on Shark Tank and he leaves us with some great career and business advice that we found inv...

In this episode, Will and Charlie hear some of the debate around Australia’s energy future and the factors influencing Australia’s mining industry. The discussion draws on the perspective of Bowen Coking Coal (ASX:BCB) Executive Chairman, Ballymore Resources (ASX:BMR) Chairman and co-founder of Stanmore Coal Nick Jorss. Nick is an incredibly passionate advocate of Australian mining and is not afra...

In this episode, Charlie and Will reflect on some of the key lessons they've learnt from their first 16 episodes. With clips from previous episodes and a focus on what is going to be needed for the future young professional, this episode is a great overview of some of the fascinating interviews the boys have been a part of thus far.

In this episode, Charlie and Will were lucky enough to sit down with the co-host of the We Got The Chocolates podcast to discuss the business of podcasting. The following that Leigh, brother Mitch and mate Andrew, have amassed through the podcast is nothing short of extraordinary. With nearly 500k followers on Instagram, 252k subscribers on Youtube - to go along with nearly 100 million total views...

James Fielding, CEO of Audeara (ASX: AUA), joins Charlie Selth and Will Chapman to discuss the fascinating company that he founded. James talks to the origins of the company and how it aims to address hearing loss before it's too late - a problem that greatly impacts the quality of lives for many Australians. Further to this, he discusses the psychological shift that needs to be made in regard to...

Charlie and Will are joined by Hyrdalyte North America (ASX:HPC) CEO, Oliver Baker, to discuss his pathway to becoming the CEO of an ASX-listed company and how his innate understanding of marketing and strategic partnerships has held him in good stead for this challenging role. Oliver has been facing some headwinds as they attempt to grow Hydralyte in America due to a slight variation in consumer...