40under40 News

WESTERN Australian sea captain Suzannah Vaughan died suddenly last week aboard her ship in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of India.

MINNEAPOLIS-BASED communications technology company, Amcom Software, has bought Commtech Wireless, which has grown from its Perth base to become an international provider of wireless messaging infrast

THE state's information technology and communications export businesses are getting a foothold in international markets, according to the WA Business News Book of Lists.

DEVELOPERS and planners in the Mid West should learn from the Pilbara to better understand the pressures that come along with being a 'boom town', according to Carr Civil Contracting managing director Mark Blayney.

THREE Perth entrepreneurs have established a $40 million venture capital fund to invest in new technologies.

WESTERN Australia's long-term outlook remains bright, despite the upheaval on global financial markets, with labour shortages continuing to be one of the biggest challenges.

When Suzannah Vaughan was appointed to run the first floating production storage and offloading vessel to work offshore India, she believed it was another significant step in her family's connection with the subcontinent and oil.

For more than 150 years, the Royal WA Institute for the Blind has supported visually impaired people throughout Western Australia.

Jan Kolbusz is the kind of technology professional manager who admits he would most likely have seen out his days in senior management if he didn't live in Perth.

Boutique private equity firm InGlobo Asset Management Pty Ltd is looking for more acquisitions in the mining services sector after its debut purchase of Integrated Industrial Mining Supply Pty Ltd.

Despite record prices, the gold sector has failed to glitter like other commodities, with the failure of marginal producers having a knock-on effect in the service sector.

Fifteen years after establishing Perth's first internet service provider, iiNet boss Michael Malone retains a disarming honesty and humour that is rarely found in chief executives.

Specialist taxation and business advisory firm, Cooper Partners, has expanded its self-managed superannuation fund expertise with the appointment of a new principal.

LIONS Eye Institute founder Ian Constable and Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder were among the winners at the 36th Annual Western Australian Citizen of the Year Awards, announced last weeken

A largely hidden side of wealth creation is in the private sector, where successful entrepreneurs have built considerable businesses, in many cases with their families or over more than one generation.

East Perth-based internet and telecommunications provider iiNet has returned to its acquisition strategy after a more than two-year layover, acquiring fellow Western Australian player Westnet for an $81 million cash payment.

Having worked in the fresh produce industry for 15 years, entrepreneur and managing director of the Pacco Group, Leanne Wesche, has developed the first in a range of products designed to make fruit and vegetables cleaner and safer to eat.

As new Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA chief James Pearson jetted off to Russia this week with a state trade delegation, his colleagues may hope he's dotted the ‘i's and crossed the ‘t's on his paperwork.

Running a construction business alongside an organic compost venture and an emerging wine label may not sound like a perfect fit, but the results have proved otherwise for Daniel and Benjamin Avila, who released their first wine label, Castle Lion, this m

The WA Business News annual 40under40 Awards is among the biggest events on the Western Australian business community's calendar, and this year's awards certainly lived up to expectations.

40U40 winners selected for prize.

The winners of this years WA Business News 40under40 Awards, to be announced at a gala function on Wednesday night, are featured in this weeks edition.

Visiting WA Former coach of the Essendon Football Club, Kevin Sheedy, to speak at the HIA event, An Audience with Kevin Sheedy, where he will discuss “Positive and Lateral Thinking” and “Thinking and

The wealth of entrepreneurial talent in Western Australia has resulted in a very close race at the top end of this year's WA Business News 40under40 Awards.

An overview of the 40under40 judges for 2008.

Andrew HerrmannCompany: Access 1 Security Systems, Gametraders Galleria, Orbit Amusements

Visiting WA Former coach of the Essendon Football Club, Kevin Sheedy, to speak at the HIA event, An Audience with Kevin Sheedy, where he will discuss “Positive and Lateral Thinking” and “Thinking and

‘Diamonds are a girl's best friend' might be a cliché, but the history of Western Australia's Argyle mine in the Kimberley reflects something of a deeper truth in that saying.

It's hard to see any common ground between geology and communication, yet these two fields do share something – they both feature prominently in the career backgrounds of women now atop the corporate tree in Western Australian listed companies.

Female business executives came to the fore in 2007, winning recognition in some of Australia's most prominent business awards.

More than four decades after it was started by general practitioner Kevin Cullen, the landmark Busselton population health study is the subject of growth plans that could substantially broaden the use of its valuable data.

With some of Western Australia's biggest corporate names on its books, IT services provider L7 Solutions is making the most of the state's booming economy.

PERTH-BASED architectural firm Hassell has named Andy Sharp as managing principal of its Perth studio.

Like many Western Australian financial services firms, Subiaco-based Keysbrook Financial Services has felt the flow-on effects of the state's booming economy.

Marcus Canning - ARTRAGE Inc.

Biotechnology companies in Western Australia have posted checkered results of late, but Subiaco-based bio-pharmaceutical company Phylogica Ltd has defied the trend through its business model, according to co-founder Paul Watt.