Five years ago (almost to the day), Boral chief executive Mike Kane was named this newspaper’s businessperson of the year.
After four profit downgrades in 18 months and now an accounting scandal in his US windows business, he can be safe in the knowledge our accolade won’t be conferred on him twice.
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Joe Aston is the founder of Rampart and the best-selling author of The Chairman’s Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out. From 2012 to 2023, Joe helmed The Australian Financial Review’s Rear Window column. Email Joe at hello@rampart.news