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Geoff Harris

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Gate 8, at 88 Jolimont Street in Melbourne’s city-fringe suburb of Jolimont, is the newly built six-floor home of Harris Capital, the family office of Flight Centre co-founder Geoff Harris. 

Geoff Harris’ new $60m office gives 11 charities a home

The Flight Centre co-founder has developed an office building in East Melbourne that offers a floor of free space to charities his family supports.

May

Greencape Capital co-founder Matt Ryland has paid more than $15 million for a Victorian mansion in St Vincent Place South.

Stockpicker sets suburb record as controversial chef exits

Two mansions overlooking Albert Park’s coveted St Vincent Place have sold, with one resetting the suburb record.

March 2022

Flight Centre founders Geoff Harris, Graham “Skroo” Turner and Bill James in 2018.

Flight Centre founders (bar Skroo) sell down

Geoff Harris and Bill James have for some months been steadily selling small parcels of shares in a series of on-market trades.

September 2021

Tobi Skovron at CreativeCubes’ latest co-working hub in Carlton

‘Large companies are embracing flexible working’

Tobi Skovron, founder of CreativeCubes, says he plans to open many more hubs over the next three years as more companies embrace flexible working.

April 2020

Rich Lister Geoff Harris trimmed his Flight Centre exposure in March 2019.

Geoff Harris sold $9.2m worth of Flight Centre

His disposals earned him almost as much as he sent back Flight Centre's way in a capital-raise a year later.

Flight Centre boss Graham Turner.

Flight Centre founders pitch in a fraction of their dividend

Graham 'Skroo' Turner, Geoff Harris and Bill James were each paid more in FY19 dividends than they're now chipping into the company.

March 2020

What Rich Listers are doing amid market chaos

More than $5.3 billion has been wiped off the paper wealth of Financial Review Rich Listers since the market’s peak a fortnight ago.

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