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Prize behind Mark McGowan’s fifth job

Frontier Energy’s new chairman met the company’s largest shareholder at a meet-cute born from winning a prize at a charity night.

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Frontier Energy is one of those ASX-listed renewable energy companies longer on dreams than revenue.

And yet, it still managed to recruit one of the country’s most powerful recent premiers, Mark McGowan, as its new non-executive chairman.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com
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