Inspired, intrepid and (almost) invincible. Meet the INTHEBLACK Young Business Leaders 2014.

1. LEADERS?

2. THEY’RE DISRUPTERS,
COLLABORATORS AND
AGILE NETWORKERS.
Many display a strong desire to make a personal
impact by using their business know-how in
social enterprises. All of this year’s INTHEBLACK
Young Business Leaders are aged under 40 and
most have a finance qualification, but their
careers are extraordinarily diverse.

3. MEET THE
JUDGING
PANEL
Penny Egan FCPA
President and chairman,
CPA Australia
Alex Malley FCPA
Chief executive,
CPA Australia
David Spong FCPA
CFO, Ericsson Australia, NZ
and Fiji
Jen Dalitz CPA
Gender balance consultant
and founder, Sphinxx
Preston Kevin Lewis
Managing director, Warner
Bros Consumer Products,
Australia, NZ and India
Aaron Musca CPA
CFO, IKEA Australia

4. “You need to ask silly
questions when you are
in the early part of your
career, before you are
seen as ‘the expert’.”
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied, 22
Ground well engineer, Shell

5. “The motivation was
really trying to create
something from the
ground up.”
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Paul Luczak CPA, 31
Director, White Sky

6. LEADERSHIP DOES NOT
JUST EQUATE TO
EARNING BIG DOLLARS.
There is a genuine passion and vision to do
something that makes a difference and the
commitment there is so refreshing.

7. “When you have that accounting
background, you realise it’s still
a numbers game if it’s
engineering or another kind of
firm.”
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Matthew Tee Kai Woon CPA, 38
Group executive director
Bina Puri

8. “Sound financial management makes
a difference where it really matters.”
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Chelsea Collins CPA, 29
Finance Manager, Oxfam GB

10. “We turn out great
technology but because
we are a small market we
have a much harder job.”
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Israel Cooper CPA, 32
Co-founder, CFO and senior VP
Trigger Happy

11. “We were trying to
solve the challenge of
the chicken or the egg:
whether you get the
people or the clients
first.”
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Vickie Ping Wai Fan CPA, 37
Managing partner, Fan, Chan & Co

12. THEY APPLY EARLY
SUCCESS TO A
BIGGER CANVAS.
Young business leaders should always be looking
to develop their skills for a larger map of
leadership; to test themselves all the time with
their capacity to influence better behaviour.

13. “I’ve never let age get
in the way of anything
I wanted to do.”
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Matt Baxby, 37
Group executive
Retail and online banking
Bank of Queensland

14. “The first 10,000
users are the hardest
to get and we are just
at that stage.”
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Tim Fung, 30
CEO and co-founder
Airtasker

16. “How you
manage people
determines how
successful you
will be.”
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Neel Augusthy CPA, 36
CFO supply chain
Johnson & Johnson Medical

17. “You always have to
overcome something
in the process of
innovation.”
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Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, 37
Group executive,
institutional banking and markets, CBA

18. LONG TERM
EMPLOYEES ARE
BECOMING RARE.
Young leaders’ careers are fluid in nature, with a
disregard for geographic boundaries or traditional
hierarchy being both a benefit and a challenge for
organisations.

19. “I believe in a quiet,
strong and grounded
leadership.”
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Rachael Chong, 32
Founder, Catchafire

20. “If you over-plan you
can blindside yourself
to opportunities.”
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Greg Angenent CPA, 38
Acting director, financial
accounting and operations
Department of Parliamentary Services

22. “You have to have a lot
of passion but if you
can’t pay the bills it
doesn’t work. But I’m
an accountant and it’s
natural to me.”
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Steve Hui CPA, 38
CEO and founder, iFLYflat

23. “Having a replicable
model, we can to
expand at a much
quicker rate for the
next 18 months..”
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Katerina Kimmorley, 26
Co-founder, Pollinate Energy

24. THEY ARE ALL DOING
THINGS DIFFERENTLY.
Today’s young leaders play their own game – they
are not predictable. They make a name for
themselves by being disruptive. Yet there is also
an eagerness to collaborate.

25. “Most Asian countries are
trying to reform their
accounting and auditing
framework to comply
with international
standards.”
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Le The Viet CPA, 36
Deputy director general,
Nexia International

26. “I force myself out of
my comfort zone and
take on challenges,
because if you don’t,
you don’t know what
you’re capable of.”
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Nicolette Maury, 35
Country manager and managing
director, Intuit Australia

27. “I do feel motivation
to do something that
contributes to a better
world, not only to
make money.”
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Dorjee Sun, 36
Social entrepreneur, founder & CEO Carbon
Conservation, director Carbon Agro

29. “You have to think as
though you are one of
the owners of the
business.”
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Fergus Lam FCPA, 39
Director, internal audit and management
services, Sa Sa International Holdings

30. “The growth has
definitely been
surprising. And through
word of mouth.”
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Ned Dwyer, 30
CEO, Elto

31. “The best advice I’ve
had came from my
dad: you are never
really the owner of the
business, you are the
gatekeeper for the
next generation.”
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Katherine Brown, 32
Brand manager
Brown Brothers

32. INNOVATORS.
ENTREPRENEURS.
HIGH ACHIEVERS.
The individual approaches of the 2014
INTHEBLACK Young Business Leaders inspire a
bright future for enterprises in all sectors.