Cricket legend Michael Kasprowicz joins crew of elite athletes at Talisman
They are a sports-mad lot over at Talisman, with a cricketing great becoming the latest former elite athlete to be hired by the mining consultancy group.
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They are a sporting lot over at Talisman, with cricketing great Michael Kasprowicz becoming the latest former elite athlete to be hired by the mining consultancy group.
Kasprowicz has been appointed chief executive of Talisman People, which applies strategies from high performance sport to leadership within mining organisations.
He joins former Wallaby captain Nathan Sharpe and Olympic rowing medallist Bo Hanson as senior executives at Talisman, which is on the expansion trail after earlier this year sealing a big deal in the rapidly evolving mining software business. A talisman in football is a player that brings a team luck.
Sharpe says Kasprowicz, who bagged almost 200 wickets at the international level, brings an incredible track record in sport, business and administration to Talisman.
After his sporting career, he served on the board of Cricket Australia and later on the Australia India Council. He also had stints at PwC and KPMG in management consultancy and advisory services roles.
Sharpe, who joined Talisman last year, is another elite athlete who has forged a successful business career after sport. Sharpe credits his 15 years of experience as a professional sportsman with equipping him with the right skills to build successful businesses.
With over 100 matches for the Australian Wallabies, including 20 as captain, Sharpe won the Bledisloe Cup as well as playing in three World Cups. Transitioning out of sport, he joined the mining industry in 2010 where he established SES Labour Solutions.
BUILDING SUCCESS
They are popping the champagne glasses over at Queensland architecture outfit bureau^proberts with two of the firm’s projects being shortlisted in the prestigious World Architecture Festival Award.
The firm’s Australian Pavilion built for Expo 2020 in Dubai, and The Eaves in West End have both been recognised in the international awards.
The Australian Pavilion also has received a commendation in the International Architecture Awards, only one of four projects worldwide to be recognised.
Bureau^proberts creative director Liam Proberts says the practice has been working overseas and with international clients for the past 15 years and has seen a worldwide shift towards the Australian design-led approach.
“In the last five years, we’ve noticed that the international clientele’s appetite for ideas rather than just capacity has increased,” says Proberts.
PLAYING CHICKEN
There’s a new rooster in charge of poultry retailer Lenards. Harry Rumpler, the former chief operating officer of the Brisbane-based company, has been appointed chief executive officer replacing Lenard’s founder and director Lenard Poulter.
Rumpler, who joined Lenards in January, was previously chief executive of IGA Fresh (Metcash) as well as a business advisor to the CSIRO.
Poulter will remain in the business, looking at various expansion opportunities “This is certainly the next step for Lenard’s, and we are extremely excited about Harry’s appointment and commitment to his new role,” Poulter says. “Harry has demonstrated exceptional leadership and delivered strong results in the short time he has been on board that have had an immediate positive impact on the business.”
Poulter founded the business in 1987 from a single store in Sunnybank. Its products can now be found at 25 locally-owned stores and 2,000 independent supermarkets around Australia.
It’s been a long haul for the former butcher-turned entrepreneur after personal circumstances forced him to sell Lenard’s to the now collapsed Blue Sky Alternative Investments a decade ago. Describing the experience with Blue Sky as a “bad period,” the chance to buy back the company four years ago was something he could not refuse.
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