Talking Business Guests
A diverse group of Australian business leaders and entrepreneurs share their success stories in our monthly brief.
Ian Aitchison is the CEO of COPC Asia-Pacific Inc., a customer-experience consultancy with telcos, banks, airlines, insurance companies and government departments among its clients.
David Hickey is the area director for Australia and New Zealand at Meltwater, a software-asa-service (SaaS) company founded in Norway.
Amantha Imber is an innovation psychologist, author and founder of Inventium, an Australian innovation consultancy that applies findings from psychology and neuroscience to help organisations gain a competitive edge.
Tom Bell is the Australian manager at Shred-it, which provides tailored document-destruction services to reduce the risk of identity theft.
Paul Culmsee and Kailash Awati are co-authors of The Heretic’s Guide to Management: The Art of
Harnessing Ambiguity, which is based on the latest research in neuroscience on the effects of uncertainty on decision-making.
Grace Chu founded FirstClick Consulting in 2005 and is currently the CEO of Performics Australia, a performance marketing network.
Endi Frydman is the founder of OneJob TwoMinds, Australia’s first job-share recruitment agency and a pioneer in flexible work solutions.
Toby Ryston-Pratt is the CEO and co-founder of Aspire Outdoor, whose mission is to inspire people to get out from behind their desks and enjoy outdoor adventure activities.
Tim Lawless is the Asia-Pacific research director at CoreLogic, Australia’s most comprehensive source of up-to-date property data, insights and analytics.
Paul Higgins is co-founder (with his brother, Michael Higgins) of HelloCars, which has taken the process of buying and selling used cars completely online and disrupted the traditional dealership model.
Andrew Ward, a former director of private wealth at Commonwealth Bank Australia, is the founder and CEO of SelfWealth, a network that provides insights into stock-market investments and returns, as well as a brokerage service.