Spend some time with Maxine Horne, one of Australia’s most successful businesswomen. Starting with just $1,500, Maxine established a single telecommunications store on the Gold Coast. Today, her company Vita Group is an ASX-listed enterprise with a national footprint, more than 1,500 employees and annual revenues of more than $450 million. Maxine and her experienced ...

Few people can say that they have not only conceived a city but built one. Maha Sinnathamby is the visionary and founder of Greater Springfield, Australia’s fastest emerging new city which in 2010 was declared World’s Best Master Planned Community by the International Real Estate Federation. As Chairman of Springfield Land Corporation, Maha is committed to adding ...

As the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Hoodlum – an Emmy and BAFTA Award winning Production company – Nathan Mayfield is an expert in creating high quality television documentary and multi-platform series. In 1999, Mayfield utilised his tremendous amount of entrepreneurial and entertainment industry experience to team up with business partner Tracey ...

Marcus Blackmore took the reins as the Chairman of Blackmores Ltd in 1975 and has made the company a world leader in natural health. Blackmores is a widely recognised public company employing over 900 people in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Blackmores markets the premium brand of vitamin and herbal products under the 'Blackmores' and 'BioCeuticals' labels and is ...

Trent Davis had several businesses before he was 22 years old, ranging from IT support to commercial childcare centre management systems which he started in high school. Starting his fifth company Netbox Blue in 1999, he took an organic growth approach. Now, Trent has built Netbox Blue into a formidable company with over 30 staff across Australia, selling to the ...

Over the past 20 years Dimity Dornan has helped countless hearing impaired children to listen and speak like children with normal hearing. A speech pathologist turned social entrepreneur, Dimity founded Hear and Say in 1992, developing it into one of the world’s leading paediatric auditory-verbal and cochlear implant centres. Today, Hear and Say provides services for ...

From pizza delivery driver to pizza store entrepreneur, to Group CEO and Managing Director of Australia’s largest and first publicly-listed pizza chain – Don Meij has proven passion, dedication and a keen business sense mean everything when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder. In 1996 Don became a Domino’s franchisee and built a network of 17 stores. He now ...

Immigration lawyer turned entrepreneur Damian Griffiths has been shaping and challenging Brisbane’s social landscape for the past six years. Dubbed the ‘godfather of bar culture’, Damian is the name behind the boutique Limes Hotel, popular hybrid dining/cocktail experience Alfred and Constance and the unique new Chester Street Bakery and Bar. Starting from humble ...

Graham ’Skroo’ Turner is not your usual corporate leader.  He remains down to earth without the need to surround himself with the trappings of his success. The financial bottom line at Flight Centre is important, but it has been achieved because Skroo also believes in empowering employees, rewarding initiative and fostering the spirit of a large tribe throughout the ...

Shainiel Deo is CEO of Halfbrick Studios, a game development company based in Queensland with offices in Sydney, Spain and San Francisco. Halfbrick is the creator of hit game Fruit Ninja, one of the most successful apps of all time. To date, it has been downloaded more than 300 million times and is on more than one third of all US iPhones. Game Changers is a Queensland ...