The Interview Australia

Our guest is Ilya Melnikoff, Founder & Managing Director of Luxcon Group – one of Australia’s premier integrated, luxury property groups founded on the basis of delivering high-quality developments in only the best precincts across Australia. Founded in 2004, the business has developed some of Sydney’s most sought-after projects including ‘The Aristocrat’ in Rose Bay, ‘The London’ in North Sydney...

Our guest is Michael Lasky - Executive Chairman of Lascorp Investment Group. Throughout the course of an extraordinary fifty plus year career, Michael has forged a reputation as one of Australia's most respected and astute property investors, with a particular emphasis on developing shopping centre, retail & hotel assets. https://lascorp.com/ https://readymedia.com.au/ https://developmentready.com...

Our guest is property royalty, Robert Hamilton AM. Alongside architect Henry Pollack, Bob co-founded development giant Mirvac Group in 1972 and led the company through extraordinary growth as Managing Director for over thirty years. Under Bob and the management team's leadership, the business was floated in 1987 with an initial market capitalisation of $100m. In 2005, he passed over leadership of...

Our guest is Phil Green - Founding Partner of Alceon Group, a privately-owned financier and multi-strategy alternative investment manager. Phil brings over 30 years of experience across property, financial assets & infrastructure and was a Partner of Babcock & Brown for over 24 years culminating in his appointment as Chief Executive Officer upon it's listing on the ASX in 2004. Alceon Group was es...

Our guest is leading Australian investment banker, corporate advisor, sports commissioner and philanthropist, John Wylie AM. Over the course of an extraordinary thirty-five plus year career, John has been directly involved in a roll call of some of the Nation's largest institutions. Post University, his first role was working in the City of London for two years with Hill Samuel & Co. before moving...

Our next guest is Mr. Richard Sheppard. Richard is one of the Nation's most experienced executives - his career expands across the fields of banking, finance, property, entertainment & infrastructure wherein he has played an instrumental role in the success of both public & private enterprises. His current positions include as Chair (six years) & Non-Executive Director (ten years) of Dexus Propert...

Our guest is Mark Carnegie - Founder & Principal of MH Carnegie & Co and one of Australia's most recognised & respected venture capitalists, corporate advisors & thought-leaders.

Our guest is Josephine Sukkar AM - Co-Founder & Principal of Buildcorp, a privately owned construction business that has been intimately involved with region defining projects for over thirty years and with revenue in excess of over six hundred million dollars per annum. Josephine was also recently appointed Chairman of the Australian Sports Commission, the first female to hold the position, and i...

Our guest is Mark Harrison, Managing Director of Property at acclaimed private finance and investment house, Wingate. Mark brings over twenty years of experience in the Australian property & property finance sectors and has been a Director of Wingate for over twelve years. Since joining the business in 2008, Mark has overseen significant growth of its property division into becoming one of the Nat...

Our guest is John Knowles OAM - one of Australia's leading aged care developers & Founder of Knowles Group, a privately owned group of companies with particular interests in aged care, retirement living & property. The business encompasses J&G Knowles, their in-house construction company, Arcare, one of Australia's most innovative aged care providers with over 4,000 beds Nationwide, and Sencia, a...

Our guest this morning is Shaun Bonett - Founder and CEO of Precision Group, one of the Nation's most innovative and pioneering private investment and development organisations. Precision Group has an extensive property portfolio and development pipeline, with interests across the retail, commercial office and hospitality sectors. Precision Group has a major financial interest in Prezzee, the lead...

Our next guest is David Evans - Executive Chairman & Founder of Evans & Partners, a specialist equity investment firm that offers extensive investment solutions to private high-net worth individuals & institutional clients. Founded in 2007, Evans & Partners provides private wealth, capital markets, asset management, research & execution capabilities across Australian equities, fixed interest and g...

A candid discussion with preeminent property investor & Founder of Drapac Capital Partners, Michael Drapac. A Ready Media Group exclusive. https://drapaccapital.com/​ https://readymedia.com.au/​ https://www.developmentready.com.au/​

Our guest is Robert Magid OAM. Bob is the Founder of TMG Developments, one of the Country's most experienced property development groups with investments across the residential, commercial & hotel asset classes. Alongside his property interests, Bob is a media owner with high-profile assets including Australian Jewish News & Property Weekly Magazine. He is also a movie producer, with his criticall...

Our guest is Simon Mordant AO - one of Australia's leading investment bankers, philanthropists, businessman and art collectors. Simon is the Executive Co-Chairman of Luminis Partners, an independent corporate advisory firm founded in 2015 to provide strategic expertise on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, divestments & capital market activities. Prior to Luminis, Simon was the co-foun...

Our guest is Simon McGrath AM - Chief Executive Officer of Accor Pacific. Simon offers over three decades of experience and insights across the tourism and hospitality industry and joined the Accor business in 2006. https://www.developmentready.com.au/

Our guest is Phil Ruthven AM - Founder of revered business intelligence group, IBIS World. Over a fifty-plus year career, Phil has been Australia's leading, go-to forecaster & commentator on business trends, strategic services and thought leadership. Founded in 1971, his legendary firm, IBIS World provides trusted industry research on thousands of industries worldwide, leveraging economic, demogra...

Our next guest is Greg Paramor AO - one of only a few inductees of the Australian Property Hall of Fame and who brings more than forty-five years of experience across a roll-call of this Nation's largest real estate institutions. Greg is Non-Executive Director of Charter Hall Limited, Chairman of Leftfield Investments, Former CEO of Mirvac Group, Former Chairman of LJ Hooker, Former Director of Le...

Our guest is corporate insolvency and re-structuring expert, Mark Korda. Mark began his career at former global accounting powerhouse Arthur Andersen, making Partner at aged 31 before joining forces with Mark Mentha in 2002 to co-found legendary advisory and investment group Korda Mentha. Mark is interim co-president of the Collingwood Football Club, where he has served for nearly fourteen years a...

Our guest is acclaimed property developer, Terry Agnew - Founder of Tower Holdings. A Ready Media Group production. https://www.developmentready.com.au/

Our guest is Dr. Jerry Schwartz, co-founder of Schwartz Family Company. Schwartz Family Company is Australia's largest privately owned hotel group, with a portfolio comprising some fifteen hotels representing more than four thousand individual hotel rooms and with an employee count of some two thousand two hundred people. The business owns and controls blue-chip assets in both metropolitan and reg...

Our guest is David Smorgon OAM - member of one of Australia's most recognised business dynasty's and CEO of Pointmade, the Nation's pre-eminent family advisory firm. For over 25 years David was a senior executive at Smorgon Consolidated Industries, one of Australia's largest private companies before being elected President of the Western Bulldogs Football Club, a role he held for some 15 years. Da...

Our guest is Mark Leibler AC - one of Australia's pre-eminent businessman, whose legal nous, corporate acumen and political skills have been relied upon by generations of this Nation's most influential and successful businesses, entrepreneurs and Prime Ministers.

Brae Sokolski is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of MaxCap Group - one of Australia's leading commercial real estate debt & investment specialists. Development Ready’s interview series delves into the lives of Australia’s premier property & business identities and uncovers what makes them tick.

Our next guest is the Founder & Managing Director of Wel. Co - a multifaceted development business specializing in building Australian communities.