The Interview Australia

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 Socie...

Joining our program on this episode to share what is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most remarkable self-made business success stories is Billionaire Trevor Lee, Founder & Principal of Australian Country Choice Group- the largest & most successful, privately-owned, vertically integrated beef processing company in Australia. In this rare & exclusive profile of one of Australia’s most successful yet...

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 le...

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 com...

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 s...

Joining our program on this episode is prolific developer, agricultural investor & businessman Gerard O’Brien - Founder & Director of Silverleaf Investments, a privately held commercial real estate investment company. For over three decades, Gerard has been an instrumental figure across Western Australia’s real estate & business communities, playing an integral role particularly throughout Fremant...

Joining our program on this episode in what is a unique & exclusive profile is Dan White - a 4th generation, executive member of the venerable White family real estate dynasty who currently serves as Managing Director of Ray White Group & Chairman of White & Partners. Established in 1902, the Ray White Group is Australia’s largest & most successful real estate agency business, encompassing some tw...

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 & entrepre...

Joining our program on this episode is prolific entrepreneur Jamie Pherous - Founder & Managing Director of Corporate Travel Management. Launched in 1994 as a start-up with just two personnel, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has since grown to become one of Australia’s largest home-grown business success stories. As of May 2024, the firm boasts a market capitalisation in excess of $2.2bn, revenu...

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, Undergroun...

Joining our program on this episode is Denis Wagner, Co-Founder & Non Executive Chairman of Wagners and Director of Wagner Corporation. With a family association to Queensland’s Darling Downs region that predates an astonishing one-hundred-and-fifty years, Wagners & Wagner Corporation are unquestionably two of Australia’s largest and most successful businesses, with operations across manufacturing...

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 edu...

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 enr...

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 1...

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 Commerc...

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...

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...

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 sector...

Our special guest on this episode is billionaire Arnold Vitocco - Founder & Managing Director of diversified family office Vitocco Enterprises. Vitocco Enterprises is one of Australia’s most successful family-run private corporations, with a pedigree dating back some seventy years and a portfolio of assets that encompasses holdings across the property development, real estate investment, retail, a...

Our special guest is rich-lister Andrew Abercrombie, Chair & Founding Director of Humm Group and revered businessman, investor & philanthropist. Born in Sydney in 1957, Andrew re-located to Melbourne at an early age and before long, his entrepreneurial qualities were on display, establishing five paper rounds as a teenager before turning his hand to trading motorbikes, cars and eventually resident...

Our special guest on this episode is Danny Gilbert AM - Co-Founder & Managing Partner of revered corporate law firm, Gilbert + Tobin. In a rare and exclusive interview, Danny walks us through his extraordinary career, from practising law in regional New South Wales in the early part of his life, to moving to Sydney and launching his own firm alongside Tony Tobin in 1988. From humble beginnings, Gi...

Joining our series for his first ever in-depth interview is special guest - Jeff Chapman AM, Founder & Chairman of Bangarra Family Office & Bennelong Funds Management. As one of Australia’s most successful business & philanthropic figures, Jeff’s remarkable career and influence extends across a diverse range of industries, including professional sports, media production, property development, fund...

Our special guest on this episode is Michael Streicker, President of New York Headquartered, Global Investment powerhouse Sentinel Real Estate Corporation. 

Founded in 1969, Sentinel is a highly-respected, independently-owned real estate investment management firm with a portfolio of assets valued in excess of $13.5bn (AUD) and managed on behalf of over a hundred domestic & international clients....

Our special guest on this episode is Billionaire Mr. Robert Millner, Chairman of publicly listed, diversified investment group, Washington H. Soul Pattinson. Unquestionably one of Australia’s oldest & most successful integrated businesses, Washington H. Soul Pattinson’s roots date back to Sydney in 1872 prior to becoming incorporated & listed on the stock exchange in 1903. Through considered, long...