Although it is three years since the Lowy family severed links with Scentre Group, it is not hard to find Westfield founder Frank Lowy’s people management skills in Scentre’s latest chief executive appointment.

The highly rated Peter Allen is being replaced as CEO by Elliott Rusanow, who joined Westfield in 1999 and worked his way up to be the chief financial officer before becoming Scentre’s CFO in 2019.