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Link's new CEO Vivek Bhatia in major CV embellishment

Bhatia claims to have been 'CEO of Wesfarmers Insurance in Australia', but he never was.

Joe AstonColumnist

Sep 22, 2020 – 11.27pm

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We marvelled last week at Link Group’s appointment of Vivek Bhatia as its new chief executive on August 8.

Bhatia joins Link from QBE Insurance. But until 2018, he was the CEO of icare, the NSW government’s workers’ compensation insurer currently engulfed in a corruption scandal. Bhatia was appointed to run icare’s forerunner in 2014 by a board of directors chaired by Michael Carapiet, who also happens to be chairman of Link Group!

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.