London | On the streets of London, there is mounting evidence that the gates of Australia’s gilded cage are prising open: a growing number of big-ticket Aussie CEOs are jetting into town.

These include Lendlease’s Tony Lombardo, Macquarie’s Shemara Wikramanayake, BHP’s Mike Henry and Fortescue’s Andrew Forrest. One of the first CEO escapees to London, though, was Afterpay’s Nick Molnar.