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Ewen Crouch's due diligence a laughing matter

“I only come to this with my reputation,” Corporate Travel Management’s replacement chairman Ewen Crouch declared on Monday, brandishing an intangible asset he implicitly believes should command tremendous value. The poor fellow seems to have mistaken himself for a Brian McNamee or Allan Moss, not a former fee-for-service solicitor of middling renown – and now an utter wood duck for a guileful shareholder-CEO.

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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

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