CEO sleepout
Andrew Forrest has worked how to make the St Vincent de Paul Society’s CEO Sleepout work for him – avoid the sleeping overnight and simply donate to all the others. He’s offered to contribute $2,000 to anyone finishing with funds above $10,000; and $5,000 to those who have more than $20,000 raised.
The Note is hoping WA Business News representative, executive editor Mark Pownall, can add to his $15,520 total from earlier this week to attract Twiggy’s maximum offer. Perhaps you can help him to push the real CEOs pace?
At the moment he is a distant third to WA leaders Burswood CEO Barry Felstead, who has more than $36,000, and Equatorial Resources managing director John Welborn, who has cracked $33,000.
In the past fortnight, though, WA has slipped in the rankings as NSW has surged past us and previous leader Queensland. NSW’s leader, Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure chief Michael Boyle, has raised more than $54,000 and Commonwealth Bank’s CEO Ian Narev is on $38,000. In Queensland, Rowland chairman Geoff Rodgers is on nearly $48,000 when we last looked on Tuesday.
WA, though, does have some fast movers coming up the ranks. Emeco CEO Keith Gordon has raised more than $14,000 since starting on May 2, BC Iron CEO Mike Young (pictured above, looking rugged up for the occasion) is just under that amount having commenced fund raising on May 28 and Monadelphous Group MD Rob Velletri is over $11,000 and he just started on June 8. Very impressive. The only other WA CEO above the $10,000 mark is Galvin Engineering’s Chris Galvin, sitting just above $13,000 after starting his effort back in February to grab the early limelight.
Perth to Surf
When The Note heard about a charity walk from Perth to Margaret River in four days we were more than a little sceptical. It doesn’t take a Nobel Prize winning maths genius to know that is a lot of walking and not a lot of time.
We were relieved, therefore, to see that the effort commencing next week was being managed by a bunch of young bucks from engineering consulting firm Pritchard Francis.
Naturally, these project management types have a found a way around the ‘long distance/limited time’ conundrum that had so baffled The Note’s resident science committee.
It appears that the group plan to walk in shifts to ensure a non-stop 72-hour effort gets them to wine country within the prescribed time.
Known as the Pritchard Francis Perth to Surf, the walkers are aiming to raise $15,000 for the Lord Mayor’s Distress Relief Fund.