Our special guest on this episode is globally respected business leader, Nicholas Moore AO.
In a remarkable corporate career that extends across more than three decades, Nicholas has established a formidable track record of success, predicated on an innate ability to recognise opportunity across investment markets well ahead of the curve.
Having been appointed in the depths of the Global Financial Crisis, Nicholas transformed the Macquarie Group business as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director over the course of the ensuing decade (2008 - 2018) - de-risking the business model through strategic acquisition, global expansion into funds management & infrastructure investment, and an emphasis on annuity-style income.
In unquestionably one of the firm’s most defining decades across it’s storied fifty-year history, Nicholas ushered in a new era for Macquarie Group - building upon the firm’s unique risk management framework and celebrated bottom- up approach to the identification of opportunity and employee empowerment, he steered the organisation’s presence on a global stage, perhaps most distinctly illustrated via the lifting of the firm’s international income by 67 percent, a portfolio of assets under management that exceeded $550bn, a revenue base through which 70% of income was derived offshore and a 300 percent increase in shareholder returns - an extraordinary legacy of success.
Following a thirty-three year career at Macquarie Group, including close to eleven years as CEO, Nicholas stepped down in 2018 and began focusing on a number of projects and ventures that presented him with new opportunity to contribute his considerable skillset & expertise across both public and professional life.
In November 2022, Nicholas was appointed by the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, to the role of Special Envoy for South-East Asia to deepen economic engagement with Australia’s neighbours across the Asia-Pacific region.
Nicholas currently holds several significant chairmanships and directorships, including Chairman of Willow Technology Corporation, Screen Australia, The Centre for Independent Studies, The Smith Family and the National Catholic Education Commission.
He is also a member of the NSW Business School Advisory Council and an Honorary Doctorate in Business from the University of New South Wales.
Previously, he served as the Chairman of PCYC NSW for a period of over a decade (2002 - 2015) as well as the Sydney Opera House Trust (2015 - 2020). Nicholas is a confidant and valued sounding board for Prime Ministers, Premiers, and business leaders across Australia, having been engaged to provide strategic advice across M&A, corporate finance, receivership and banking matters.
He is also the Chairman & Founder of the Moore Family Office, his private investment vehicle.
In a rare and exclusive profile, Nicholas discusses his incredible journey, from re-shaping a global financial powerhouse with over 15,000 employee’s across the World, to leading some of Australia’s most important philanthropic organisations - sharing the key lessons for success, and life, along the way.
