James Douglas Packer is an Australian billionaire businessman and investor. Packer is the son of Kerry Packer,a media mogul,and his wife,Roslyn Packer. He is the grandson of Frank Packer. He inherited control of the family company,Consolidated Press Holdings Limited,as well as investments in Crown Resorts and other companies. He is the former executive chairman of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) and Consolidated Media Holdings,which predominantly owned media interests across a range of platforms,and a former executive chairman of Crown Resorts.
Jack Cowin is a Canadian-Australian businessman and entrepreneur with a long-term involvement in franchised fast food chains in Australia and Canada. Cowin brought KFC to Australia,founded and owns Hungry Jack's,which is the Burger King franchise in Australia,and has at various stages controlled the Domino's Pizza franchise in Australia prior to its 2005 listing on the ASX.
Harry Oskar Triguboff is a Chinese-born Australian billionaire real estate developer,and one of Australia's richest people. He is the founder and managing director of Meriton and is known as "high-rise Harry".
Bruce Gordon is an Australian businessman. He is the owner of the Australian television network,WIN Television through his ownership of WIN Corporation,the largest shareholder of Network 10 &the largest shareholder of the Nine Network,and holds a significant stake in Nine Entertainment Co.
Shaun Bonétt is an Australian entrepreneur and property developer who founded and is CEO of Precision Group.
Vocus Group Limited,formerly known as Vocus Communications,is an international telecommunications company headquartered in North Sydney,Australia. Founded by James Spenceley as a wholesale,business,government and consumer telecommunications provider,Vocus owns and manages Australia's second largest intercapital fibre network. Vocus provides retail,wholesale and corporate telecommunications services across Australia and New Zealand. Vocus offers data network services such as Internet,dark fibre,IP WAN,unified communications and telephony and cloud services to mid,large and corporate businesses direct and also acts as a wholesaler. The company owns and operates 18 data centres across Australia and New Zealand and has an onshore network operations centre run by the engineers who built the network.
Colonel Anthony Joseph Pratt is an Australian businessman. He is the chairman of Pratt Industries and Visy,the world's largest privately owned packaging and paper company. Pratt is the heir to former chair of Visy Richard Pratt,who was the son of Leon Pratt,who co-founded the company in 1945. Pratt was awarded the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel by Gov Andy Beshear in 2023 in acknowledgment of Pratt’s $700m investment in a new 100% recycled paper mill in Henderson,Ky.
Xu Rongmao,or Hui Wing Mau in Cantonese,is a Chinese-Australian entrepreneur and billionaire,and the founder and the chairman of Shimao Property. Xu is estimated to be one of the largest property developers in Shanghai. According to Forbes in 2021,his net worth is estimated at $10.3bn.
M2 Group Ltd was an Australian retailer and wholesaler of telecommunications services as well as power,gas and insurance products.
The Financial Review Rich List,formerly known as the BRW Rich 200,is a list of Australia's two hundred wealthiest individuals and families,ranked by personal net worth published annually in The Australian Financial Review Magazine,a supplement of The Australian Financial Review,published by Nine Publishing. The list provides a short summary on some of the known business activities of the individuals and families,together with commentary on how their ranking has changed from the previous year,if listed.
Vaughan Garfield Bowen is an Australian businessman. He is the founder and former executive director of M2 Telecommunications,an Australian telecommunications company.
Patrick Y-Kin Grove is a Singaporean and Australian tech entrepreneur of mixed heritage.
Michael Cannon-Brookes is an Australian businessman who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of software company Atlassian.
David Hains was an Australian businessman,engineer,and horse breeder. He was the founder and once CEO of Portland House Group,Australia’s largest private investments management firm and hedge fund. According to Forbes,Hains had at the time of his death a personal net-worth of around $2 billion,making him one of Australia’s richest person.
Lloyd Stanley Perron was an Australian businessman and philanthropist.
Airtasker is a Sydney-based Australian company which provides an online and mobile marketplace,enabling users to outsource everyday tasks. Users describe the task and indicate a budget;community members then bid to complete the task.
Scott Farquhar is an Australian businessman who is the co-founder and the former co-chief executive officer of software company Atlassian. Farquhar often carries the epithet of accidental billionaire after he and his business partner Mike Cannon-Brookes founded Atlassian with the aim to replicate the A$48,500 graduate starting salary typical at corporations without having to work for someone else. Farquhar and Cannon-Brookes were Australia’s first technology billionaires.
Geoff Harris is an Australian businessman and philanthropist.
Pepper Money Limited,known as Pepper Money,is a consumer finance company that specialises in consumer lending and residential mortgages. It is part of Pepper Financial Services Group,which has offices in Ireland,Spain,South Korea and the United Kingdom.
Valarie "Larry" Kestelman is an Australian billionaire property developer and businessman. He co-founded internet service provider Dodo in 2001,which was bought out in 2013,and has interests in various other industries via his holding company LK Group. He is also known for his involvement in Australian basketball,including as the majority owner of the National Basketball League (NBL) since 2015.
