Tasmania’s business movers and shakers: 15-11

We continue our list of the top 25 business movers and shakers in Tasmania. Today includes a tourism leader, fish farmer, developer and key shareholder in a dairy company.

Tasmanian business movers and shakers.

We continue our list of the top 25 business movers and shakers in Tasmania. Today includes a tourism leader, fish farmer, developer and key shareholder in a dairy company.

Rob Pennicott of Pennicott Wilderness Journeys.

15 Robert Pennicott

Tasmania’s most-awarded tourism champion has set the bar for which all operators must follow. Through the likes of his Bruny and Tasman island cruises, he offers some of the best tourism experiences in the world. Has recently expanded his ecotours to Victoria with three amphibious boats to soon offer cruises around Wilsons Promontory, southeast of Melbourne.

Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron.

Rich-lister Bruce Neill.

14 Jan Cameron

Kathmandu founder, businesswoman Jan Cameron has continued to play a big role out of the spotlight after selling the company to private equity in 2006. A big shareholder in Tassie’s powered milk maker Bellamy’s, she is also a major donor to worthy causes, most notably animal welfare.

13 Bruce Neill

BRW Rich Lister Neill is one of Tasmania’s wealthiest individuals after Australian Wealth Management — which bought his Select Managed Funds — merged with IOOF. Retaining a 12 per cent stake in IOOF, Mr Neill keeps himself busy through horse-breeding, being the chairman of the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, owning the old Mercury building in the Hobart CBD, and along with wife Penny Clive, supporting Tasmania’s art scene.

Huon Acquaculture’s Peter Bender.

Hobart property developer Robert Rockefeller.

12 Peter Bender

Co-founder of Huon Aquaculture in 1987. Still a majority shareholder of the $406 million company which employs more than 550 people. The company is an innovator with Australia’s first onshore salmon nursery to be established in 2019. The nursery aims to reduce the time salmon spend at sea to less than 12 months which will reduce their environmental impact. It also has advanced plans to grow fish onshore.

11 Robert Rockefeller

US-born Tasmanian Robert Rockefeller remains one of the state’s top business people and property tycoons, heading a family consortium which includes hundreds of millions of dollars of shopping centres and high-end commercial and residential property right across the state. He also is a past president of the Property Council of Australia’s Tasmanian branch.

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