Special Report: Roaring 40s

The 2007 WA Business News 40under40 Awards program was launched at a breakfast forum featuring four high-profile past winners.

It seems to come around so quickly every year, but our search for the 2007 40under40 officially started last Wednesday at the ‘Dynamic Entrepreneurs in the Boom’ breakfast as part of the WA Business News Success and Leadership series.

Finding a balance between work and life outside of business appears to be some way off for the entrepreneurial panellists at the WA Business News Success and Leadership event.

Identifying and nurturing future leaders within the business was a key issue discussed at last week’s breakfast forum, with all four panellists highlighting the problems while stressing the importance of seeking out key personnel able to take up the compa

Facing adversity is nothing new to Edward Rigg, having grown up on a farm, often in drought conditions, at Coorow, north of Perth.

His role as a technology leader in Western Australia was well-known when Michael Malone was crowned 40under40 1st Amongst Equals earlier this year; a far cry from when he graduated from university in the early 1990s, when few knew anything about the inter

Imagine you could be premier of Western Australia for a day; what policies would you put forward to ensure the state’s future prosperity?

Staff retention and costs issues associated with the state’s protracted economic growth were among the key issues raised by panellists at the breakfast forum.

Suzan Pervan says her luckiest break came following her departure from top four chartered accounting firm Ernst & Young, as it provided the catalyst for her, and Ernst and Young partner Dalton Gooding, to establish Gooding Pervan Chartered Accountants.

Brett Martin’s Trailcraft group of companies manufactures aluminium trailer boats, boat trailers and caravans and sells them through five of its own retail stores and 27 independently owner retail outlets across Australia.

Mining might have received all the headlines in the past year, but Tessitura managing director and founder Liddy McCall is proof that other sectors are firing as well.