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Dec 4, 2024 | 
createdigital.org.au | Paul Merrill
The biggest weir built in Australia since World War II is a masterclass in engineering innovation and sustainability, and services a catchment area larger than England. The Fitzroy River in central Queensland supports six species of freshwater turtle, two of them threatened species.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
digitalmag.theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
Business confidence has risen sharply during the past 12 months, a global survey of chief executives has revealed, with fears of an impending economic downturn easing across every continent as private equity investments and company revenues at last begin to inch tentatively upward. But the twin fears of climate and conflict mean that the corporate pessimism of the past few years is still lingering, with a quarter of those polled admitting they’re still expecting an imminent worldwide recession.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
digitalmag.theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
When Deb Farnworth-Wood and her husband Shaun moved from the United Kingdom to Australia in 2007, their plan was to semi-retire and spend most days relaxing on the beach sipping cocktails and winding down, while keeping a part-time eye on Australian Skin Clinics (ASC), the business she’d just bought.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
digitalmag.theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
Dr Bertrand Ducrey started his career as a research scientist at Debiopharm nearly 30 years ago, but now as CEO, has lost none of the excitement he feels every day about working for a company with a growing track record in delivering breakthrough cancer treatments that have saved so many lives. “The impact our drugs are having for patients worldwide has always been the best possible driver for me,” he tells The CEO Magazine from his office in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
Before dawn on two chilly mornings in October, dozens of brave business leaders in Sydney and Melbourne will gather in the eerie darkness to face their biggest fears. Some will be plunged into freezing baths filled with ice, a few will have two-meter pythons slithering over their bodies while others will walk over embers burning at 500 degrees Celsius and a carpet of jagged shards of broken glass.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill |Glen James |Ruth Kilah |David Gevorkian
PhilanthropyCEO Dare to Cure has already raised A$8 million for research into childhood cancer. Are you brave enough to join other business leaders facing snakes, spiders, ice baths and broken glass at this year’s events in Sydney and Melbourne? Paul MerrillFinanceThis type of investing involves identifying and financing companies that are poised to benefit from specific trends, themes or disruptive innovations.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
digitalmag.theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
Finding one of the few remaining parking spaces at the shopping mall on a busy Saturday morning can be a thankless task. The sign at the entrance to the car park may have claimed there are 40 free bays, but it hasn’t revealed where exactly they are, so the next 15 minutes will likely be spent crawling around the multiple stories in search of that elusive spot.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
digitalmag.theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
In 1972, the small, semi-rural town of Jiangyin, located on the southern banks of the Yangtze River, was home to a modest factory producing local underwear. However, a decree from the Chinese State Council transformed this factory into the Jiangyin Transistor Factory, marking the beginning of a remarkable journey that would eventually lead to the formation of Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology Group (JCET).
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
digitalmag.theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
When the going gets tough in the hotel business, the tough seize opportunities that few others realize were there to be seized. That’s certainly true of Sonesta International Hotels CEO John Murray, who stepped in to acquire the hotel chain in the global financial crisis 15 years ago and more recently, to take over its leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
theceomagazine.com | Paul Merrill
Allyson Felix admits that being merely a spectator at the Paris 2024 Olympics will conjure a mix of emotions. Having retired from athletics in 2022 as the most successful track and field athlete in United States history, the seven-time Olympic gold medalist now spends her time winning different sorts of accolades for Saysh, the successful running shoe business she founded three years ago.
