The Interview Australia

Joining our series on this episode is Kris Daff - Managing Director of Assemble Communities & Make Ventures. Kris has been one of Melbourne's most prolific developers & investors for close on two decades, having worked closely with Ron Walker & Ashley Williams at Evolve Development before founding his current businesses, Make Ventures in 2014 and Assemble in 2017. https://assemblecommunities.com/...

In this exclusive interview, Ready Media Group sat down with Rahul Bharara, Managing Director & Head of Real Estate, Australia at Credit Suisse to discuss macro economic events & their potential implications on commercial real estate markets across Australia in 2022. https://www.credit-suisse.com/au/en.html https://readymedia.com.au/ https://www.commercialready.com.au/

Joining our series on this episode is Leigh Jasper - serial entrepreneur & CEO of Saniel Ventures. Leigh co-founded construction software & colloboration platform Aconex over the course of eighteen years before selling the business to Oracle in a $1.6b transaction in 2017 - since that time, he's been an active investor & holds a number of board roles including with Seek, LaunchVic, Salta Propertie...

Joining our series on this episode is Gerry Ryan OAM - revered businessman & Australian manufacturing icon. Gerry's business interests extend beyond the Jayco Australia empire he established in 1975 to now incorporate wineries, resorts & sporting teams to name a few - generating annual revenues of in excess of $500m. https://www.jayco.com.au/ https://mitchelton.com.au/ https://www.greenedgecycling...

Our guest is Charles Goode AC - Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Flagstaff Partners. Flagstaff Partners is Australia's pre-eminent independent financial and strategic corporate advisory firm, having advised on over $120bn worth of transactions across M&A, divestments, debt advisory, government privatisations, equity capital markets advice and complex & special situations. Prior to launching Flagstaf...

Our guest is renowned litigation & corporate advisory specialist, Leon Zwier. Throughout the course of a career spanning in excess of over thirty years, Leon has been intricately involved in some of this Nation's most high-profile and complex legal cases in his role as Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution, Litigation & Restructuring at Australia's most respected private law firm, Arnold Bloch Le...

Salta Properties are one of Australia's leading private property development, real estate and technology companies, with a history dating back over 50 years and which now boasts a portfolio of assets that are frequented by thousands of Australians each and every day. We are privileged to have joining us Founder and family scion Salvatore (Sam) Tarascio & Managing Director of Salta Properties Sam T...

Joining our series is Andrew Myer AM - Principal of A V Myer Group & a Director of Myer Family Investments. As a member of one of the Nation's most storied family dynasty's, Andrew has amassed a diverse array of career experiences over the course of the past thirty-five years spanning the fields of property development, domestic and international equity investment, film production & philanthropy....

Our guests are Matt & Andy Mullins - Co-founders of privately owned, Melbourne based hospitality business Sand Hill Road Group. Following the launch of the business in the year 2000, Sand Hill Road has gone on to own, develop & operate over twelve distinct venues, adding their own design flavour throughout the process and reinvigorating traditional notions of how hotel & leisure assets are managed...

Joining our series on this episode is revered private equity investor & corporate advisor Tim Sims AM - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Pacific Equity Partners. Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) is the Nation's largest & most experienced private market fund manager, with over $7.1b of assets under management & a globally recognised reputation as a leader in the field of private equity. Launched in 1...

Joining us on this episode of our series is business & racing royalty, Matt Allen AM - Former Managing Director of UBS Japan & revered yachtsman, having competed in an extraordinary thirty Sydney to Hobart yacht races for a return of three victories on overall handicap. In a diverse corporate career that extends over four decades, Matt initially worked in Australia throughout the 1980's and early...

Joining our series on this episode is Phil Pearce - Chief Executive Officer of ESR Australia & Non-Executive Director of ESR Funds Management Limited. Throughout the course of the past two decades, Phil been deeply entrenched within the commercial property sector both domestically and internationally, commencing his career as an asset manager with AMP Capital before joining Goodman Group in 2002 a...

Our guest is investment banking veteran & legendary corporate advisor Trevor Rowe AO. For over four decades, Trevor has been at the forefront of capital markets, banking, deal-making & advisory both domestically and internationally via senior Board & executive level positions with a roll-call of some of the largest institutions including Rothschild & Co, Citigroup Global Markets, Salomon Brothers,...

Joining our series on this episode is Phil Clark AO. Phil’s executive career extends across a range of disciplines, from the law, investment banking, corporate advisory & the public-sector, wherein he has played a pivotal & often decisive role in shaping the strategic direction of both companies & industries alike. His current positions include (but are not limited to) as Chair of SCA Property Gro...

Our guest is Luke Sayers AM - Founder & Executive Chairman of Sayers Group. Sayers Group is an independent corporate advisory, wealth management and investment firm that offers clients an alternative approach to legacy thinking in favour of innovative, tailored solutions to the unique challenges of the 21st Century. Since launching in February of 2021 and against the backdrop of unprecedented glob...

Our guest on this episode of our podcast series is Dick Lester AM - Executive Chairman of Lester Group & legendary real estate investment pioneer. In a career spanning in excess of fifty years, Dick has been at the forefront of the commercial property industry in Australia, having built a diverse career of experiences and specialist knowledge across the disciplines of real estate sales, market res...

Joining our interview series on this episode is Michael Ullmer AO - one of the Country's preeminent business figures, having been deeply entrenched within corporate Australia via a number of significant appointments that stretch throughout a period of in excess of thirty-years. Michael's experience & leadership extends across a number of industries within which he's extensive strategic, financial...

Our guests on this episode are Charbel Hazzouri & Anthony El-Hazouri, Founders of RevelopAU. Revelop is an independent, private-owned property development firm which specialises in the development, acquisition and ownership of assets across the commercial, residential and retail real estate sectors. Launched in two-thousand-and-eight, the company has established a substantial portfolio of over fif...

Our guest on this episode is Bryan Dorman - Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director of Regis Healthcare and Chairman of private investment office, Dorman Capital. Founded in 1991, Regis has grown to become one of Australia's largest & most successful aged care & retirement living companies, operating in excess of sixty-five facilities across the Nation incorporating over six-thousand places. In 2014,...

Joining our series this morning is Simon McKeon AO - Former Australian of the Year, investment banking doyen, corporate deal-maker and noted philanthropist. Throughout the course of an extraordinarily diverse career, Simon has been intricately involved in some of Australia's largest instituions, Government bodies and charities, having built a forty-plus year network of experience and domain expert...

Our guest is Paul Constantinou AM - Chairman of C&D Capital and Former Chairman of Quest Apartment Hotels, a business he founded some thirty three years ago and built to become the largest serviced apartment group in Australasia. By 2017, the Quest group encompassed some 190 properties comprising over 9,000 apartments under management, leading to the strategic acquisition of 80% of the company by...

Our guest is renowned businessman, deal-maker, resource industry veteran and sports owner, Tony Sage. Throughout a career spanning in excess of thirty years, Tony has been at the forefront of Australian business, particularly through his corporate interests in Okewood Pty Ltd, International Goldfields, Cauldron Energy & Cape Lambert Resources. In one of his most infamous deals, he sold a magnetite...

Our guests are Ben & Jono Isaac, Co-Directors of Isaac Property - one of Australia's leading developers of convenience retail with a family background within the sector dating back some forty years. As one of the most experienced retail development businesses in the Nation, Isaac Property has over forty sites either in planning or in development at any one time with recent projects throughout New...

An exclusive discussion with Charlotte Vidor AM - Founder of Toga Group. https://www.toga.com.au/ https://www.bellecommercial.com/ https://commercialready.com.au/

Our special guest is Mr. Bill Bowness AO - Chairman and Founder of Wilbow Corporation. Bill is one of Australia's most successful yet private business identities with interests in property development, private equity and corporate finance established during a career spanning in excess of forty-five years. In his first ever in-depth interview, today's discussion will explore his background in inves...