BHP is preparing to begin looking for a new chief executive in the coming months, with key lieutenants already jostling for position to succeed boss Mike Henry at the top of the world’s biggest miner.
Paul-Alain Hunt, Thomas Biesheuvel and Archie Hunter
Its departing chief executive is confident in the WA fast-food franchise’s ability to have another crack at spreading its wings on the east coast after a failed attempt in 2022.
Cheyanne Enciso
Vision, deregulation and productivity growth top the wishlist of WA businesses ahead of next month’s Federal election amid concerns Australia has become a less attractive investment destination.
Sean Smith
Tech unicorn Canva has made its biggest launch of new products since being founded in Perth 12 years ago, adding spreadsheets and AI amid speculation surrounding its hotly-anticipated move to go public.
Simone Grogan
US President Trump’s chaos-inducing tariff measures have validated mounting fears about protectionism and global uncertainty among Australian company directors.
IGO’s chief financial officer will finish up at the end of 2025, calling time after five and a half years with the battery metals miner.
The boss of Westgold Resources is set for a tidy $275,000 pay increase and upwards of $4 million in company shares, launching him up the ranks of WA’s best paid gold mining executives.
Salvaging Qantas is just the start as CEO who practises ‘servant leadership’ rebuilds reputation & sets up growth for the embattled national carrier.
Angus Whitley & Danny Lee
NRW has chosen former Perth Airport and Perenti chief financial officer Peter Bryant to run the listed contractor’s financial affairs as it waits to claw back $113 million from the collapsed Whyalla steelworks.
The new boss of equity crowdfunding platform Birchal has promised startups a ‘short, sharp crowdfunded campaign (that) can get them back to running their business sooner’.
KMD Brands has named veteran Nike executive Ashley Reade as the new chief executive of its surfwear brand Rip Curl.
An independent review into the actions of WiseTech’s scandal-prone founder Richard White has revealed he made incomplete and, at times, misleading disclosures about personal relationships.
Jackson Hewett
MinRes shares are surging as brokers get behind the battered miner and its boss, with one prominent Sydney stock picker saying Chris Ellison is not ‘a drongo’.
Adrian Rauso
Former Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci has announced his next career move in a game of executive musical chairs.
Alexandra Feiam
Wealthy WA philanthropist Nicola Forrest has begun making moves at her new family office by poaching a banker as the firm’s first chief executive.
Jewellery retailer Michael Hill has appointed an acting chief executive following the sudden death of Daniel Bracken last week.
Bain Capital has picked its former global aviation boss Dave Emerson to run Virgin Australia as a market float opportunity knocks.
Neale Prior
Rob Black, who stepped down from Euroz Hartleys in mid-2023, is leading Wilsons’ expansion into WA, opening a new office and looking for staff.
Former Fortescue chief executive Liz Gaines to advise an Abu Dhabi-based group selling itself as a player in the global energy transition.
Bankwest managing director Jason Chan has declared the bank is ‘here to stay’ nearly a year after it announced a sweeping network closure that remade WA’s oldest lender as digital-only.
It is a timely homecoming for the Murdoch University graduate that sees him take a key role in promoting the interests of business as State and federal elections approach and the energy transition takes shape.
The nation’s second-biggest private hospital operator, Healthscope, has tapped former Qantas international boss Tino La Spina to take on the top job amid its $1.6 billion debt pain.
Mineral Resources is still months away from announcing a new board chair to replace James McClements after a tax scandal and a series or corporate governance disasters forced his decision to exit.
Daniel Newell
Embattled Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison has reportedly started paying some of the financial penalties slapped on him by the board over a tax scandal.
