Vik Bansal grew up in Karnal, a small town about 3½ hours north of New Delhi, India. The Catholic school his parents sent him to, St Theresa’s Convent School, run by nuns, was strict.

“It was no nonsense,” recalls the chief executive of Australia’s largest waste management solutions company, Cleanaway Waste Management. “There was a high expectation of performance around academia and sport, and you were expected to behave properly.”