Six weeks on, and the August 7 appointment of Vivek Bhatia as Link Group’s new chief executive seems more than a little precipitous.

As a refresher, Link Group’s board is chaired by Michael Carapiet who, until next Friday, is also chairman of icare, the NSW government’s workers’ compensation scheme recently made famous by our colleague Adele Ferguson. Another company director, Peeyush Gupta sits on the board of both Link Group and icare.