New head of Bond program aims to transform lives
BOND University has appointed Daniel Abrahams - a business executive with more than two decades of corporate and entrepreneurial experience - as the foundation director of its Transformer program.
The Transformer, which Bond launched in May this year, is a co-curricular program aimed at instilling ‘bigpicture’ thinking, creative problem-solving and evidencebased decision making in students across all faculties. Since its launch, more than 100 students have joined.
Before joining Bond, Mr Abrahams held the roles of CEO and executive director at dark-fibre infrastructure provider, Superloop Limited, and led the team through its IPO and ASX listing.
The organisation now has 300 employees, a share price that has more than doubled and a market capitalisation of more than $500 million.
Prior to entering the startup space, Mr Abrahams had a diverse career in corporate Australia in the automotive, consulting, banking and insurance, energy and rail sectors. Some notable roles include executive manager at Suncorp and group manager at Energex Limited.
Mr Abrahams was appointed vice president and chief risk officer at Aurizon Limited in 2012 and was credited with transforming the enterprise risk culture to a performance culture, before joining start-up Superloop in 2015.
Mr Abrahams said his new role would enable him to make a real difference to the next generation of leaders to emerge from Bond University.
“Transformer builds our students capabilities from the ground up, by helping them to develop an analytical mindset and entrepreneurial skillset,” he said.
“It is explicitly cross-disciplinary in intent and brings together young people with different skills to collaborate and be disruptive.
“My father was an entrepreneur with no education, but he was a firm believer that from education comes opportunity.”