Category: Profile

1. On the job My role encompasses tables, slots and poker operations at The Venetian and The Palazzo properties, as well as domestic marketing, CRM and loyalty, casino credit and casino administration, so it’s fairly broad in its scope. A large part of what I do is to help shape the business and people strategies for […]

Patrick Houlihan, managing director of leading paint company DuluxGroup, is standing in the Dulux Innovation Centre at the company’s head office in Clayton, describing a latex polymer resin that allows the company’s colourful products to stick to walls. For some people, this subject is akin to watching paint dry. But Houlihan can’t get enough of […]

Chris Bond OAM is a senior member of the champion wheelchair rugby team that won a gold medal for Australia at the London 2012 Paralympics. The subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Murderball, wheelchair rugby is a fast and furious game that is played very often by severely disabled men and women. Each team is allowed up […]

Carolyn Taylor is an expert in leadership and workplace culture. Her book, Walking the Talk (Random House), is “a must read for any manager embarking on the journey of cultural change”, according to Professor Lynda Gratton of the London Business School. In Australia, her early clients included the chief executives of Telstra, Westpac and Rio Tinto. After […]

Jo Cavanagh is CEO of not-for-profit Family Life, the same organisation that helped her when she was a teenager experiencing difficulties of her own. Named one of the most influential women in Australia in 2014, Cavanagh is a passionate supporter of children’s rights. By Jacqueline Blondell, Photography by Damien Pleming Family Life CEO Jo Cavanagh […]