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PAUL CLITHEROE

“Winning the 2015 Sydney to Hobart yacht race on my TP52 Balance is my most cherished prize. After decades of training, preparation and ocean racing, being the proud recipient of the trophy, for what is one of the toughest yacht races in the world will live with me and my crew forever. Racing a powerful yacht day and night across a dangerous piece of water is quite an experience.”

JULIA NEWBOULD

“Last year my book The Joy of Money won the Australian Business Book Awards. It was a much appreciated accolade at the end of a tough year when all our in-person launches were cancelled. But the first award I won outside school was at my first job. A colleague and I won the $1000 first prize in a talent quest dancing to Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. It paid for a great holiday.”

VISHAL TECKCHANDANI

“I was proud to receive a National Australia Bank employee recognition award for instituting a turnaround of nabtrade’s content strategy. Over nearly six years, my hard work saw the broker’s contentrelated customer satisfaction ratings in Investment Trends’ surveys steadily rise from the bottom quintile to number one.”

MICHELLE BALTAZAR

“It’s a tie between a scholarship prize I won topping a national exam at a post-grad finance course and a fun trophy I scooped in 2015 at a charity golf cup. The first one bagged me $2000, which paid for some of my personal debts at the time, while the second one still gives me so much joy six years on because anyone who knows me knows I can’t play golf to save my life.”