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The Team
Kate Mills
Editor
Kate Mills has been a financial and business journalist for 14 years in Australia and the United Kingdom. On BRW, she has a particular interest in the professions, superannuation, managed funds, corporate finance and corporate governance. Kate has worked on publications including CFO, ALB (Australian and Asian editions), Investor Weekly, Business am (a daily finance newspaper in Scotland) and Legal Business in the UK.
Peter Arnold
Production editor/Chief sub-editor
Peter Arnold brings more than 35 years of experience to BRW. He has lived and worked as a journalist in New York, London, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea. In Australia, Peter has been chief sub editor of the News Review and Money sections of The Sydney Morning Herald, Asia-Pacific markets editor for Bloomberg covering Australia and its Pacific Rim neighbours and Page One sub editor of The Australian Financial Review. He has been with Fairfax Business Media for more than 10 years.
Michael Bailey
Deputy editor
Michael Bailey has been a business journalist for 12 years, and specialises in the area of financial services. He has extensive experience editing magazines covering funds management, commercial property and the travel industry. Michael was a founding shareholder of Conexus Financial, publisher of the Investment Magazine, Professional Planner and Top1000Funds.com titles.
Andrew Heathcote
Rich lists editor
Andrew Heathcote began his career as a reporter at Fairfax in 2001. He has since gained considerable experience in business journalism and has tackled several key rounds including the energy and financial services sectors. Andrew has also worked for market-leaders in the commercial sector in the financial and professional services industries.
Jeanne-Vida Douglas
BRW.com.au editor
Jeanne-Vida Douglas is a multi-award winning business journalist with a decade's experience covering the information technology sector. She holds tertiary qualifications in linguistics and literature, economics and IT, was named MediaConnect’s IT Journalist of the year for 2009 and has recently published The Profit Principle a book aimed at turning smart ideas into great businesses.
Georgina Dent
Reporter
Georgina Dent worked as a commercial lawyer before joining BRW in February 2008. She returned to BRW as a reporter in July 2010 after two years living in the United Kingdom. Georgina has worked on several issues of BRW Rich 200 and BRW Young Rich and edits the professions pages for BRW. Georgina is also interested in reporting on management, retail, media and emerging businesses.
Jessica Gardner
Reporter
Named Australia’s best New IT Journalist for 2011 Jessica Gardner dabbled in sports reporting, medical research and online advertising before Jessica joining BRW in September 2009 as editorial assistant. She became a reporter in May 2010, and has broad interests including start-ups, entrepreneurialism, media, marketing, science and technology.
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
Reporter
Our most popular columnist Leo D’Angelo Fisher specialises in management and leadership issues, business trends and corporate strategy. A former senior business writer at The Bulletin , deputy editor of Far East Business in Hong Kong and of Business Queensland, he hosted of the The Business Hour on 3AW and wrote the book Rethink: The Story of Edward de Bono in Australia.
Damon Frith
Business writer
Damon Frith is a former senior business writer for The Australian Financial Review and The Australian. He joined BRW after five years freelancing from Western Australia. His impeccable contacts and more than 20 years dealing with the business community delivers insight into corporate takeovers and developments.
James Cottam
Photo editor
James Cottam produces and researches photographic content for BRW. His career in print media commenced at Fairfax. As a photographic editor, he has worked at publications including Time, The Good Weekend and The Bulletin. He has curated photographic exhibitions and provided imagery for academic texts, books and film productions.
Samantha Hutchinson
Reporter
Samantha Hutchinson worked in executive recruitment and public policy before moving into journalism as a researcher with BRW Rich 200. She has tertiary qualifications in industrial relations, international business and Arabic and Islamic studies. She has a particular interest in small to medium sized exporters, Islamic finance and the business of doing business across borders.
Nassim Khadem
Reporter
Nassim Khadem began working at a journalist with The Age newspaper in 2003 covering general news, courts, state politics and urban affairs, was the economics correspondent through three federal budgets and the 2007 federal election. She recently returned to journalism after working in communications roles with the Housing Industry Association, and the Victorian government.
David James
Reporter
David James writes on investment, general features, management and globalisation. He also pens the magazine's back-page humour column. He started with the Melbourne Herald, worked for stockbroker JB Were Son and has a PhD from Monash University. He was editor of Management Today for six years and is the author of Managing for the Twenty-First Century and The Business Devil's Dictionary.
Michael Bleby
Reporter
Michael Bleby began his career in journalism in Japan and has travelled the world writing with Reuters in Tokyo, Bloomberg in London and for South Africa’s leading business newspaper Business Day in Johannesburg. Now he blogs on emerging markets and writes on topics including architecture and engineering for BRW. Follow his tweets at www.twitter.com/MichaelBleby.
Jackie Range
Reporter
Jackie Range is a former senior companies reporter for The Australian Financial Review and staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in India. She began her career in public relations in the City of London before moving into journalism as a wire agency reporter for Dow Jones Newswires. An award winning features writer, she has strong international experience having reported from Zambia, Russia and South Africa.
Tom Brentnall
Flagship editor
Tom Brentnall is responsible for BRW's special monthly issues. Since joining the reporting staff of BRW in 1981, Tom has held a variety of editing and production roles and was an early editor guiding the development of the BRW Rich 200. He was a senior staff member of Time magazine's Australian edition and editor of the Qantas Club and Qantas inflight magazines.