Rear Window
PwC chairman sells family publishing business
Myriam
Robin Rear Window editor
Sep 25, 2024
New PwC chairman John
Green has been a banker and a lawyer, as well as the proprietor
and chairman of his own family-run publishing business.
All three careers are now drawing to a close. The last with the sale of the
Green family’s Pantera Press to Hardie Grant, due to be completed at the end of
this month.
Prominent Pantera authors include political journalist Simon Benson, media
entrepreneur Tim Duggan,
and iconoclastic political activist Nyunggai
Warren Mundine. And then, there was John Green himself, who as
well as chairing the family business, has through it released a series of
financial thrillers.
New PwC chairman John Green writes thrillers and is a fan of mentalism.
Some suggest an imagination not ill-placed in considering how, for example,
wonky consultants could knowingly or inadvertently bring an organisation to its
knees.
Consider the blurb for
The Trusted, released in 2013 and focused on financial terrorists
keen on destroying Wall Street “from the inside”.
“What if the people we trust most are those we should trust least,” the
author asks. What indeed.
Green’s author biography notes he stopped working as a banker two years
before the global financial crisis, “enough of a lag so no one could accuse him
of starting the whole mess”. It also notes his status as an “aficionado” of
“magic and mentalism”.
We can’t think why board recruiters don’t regularly require such skills.
Just think how familiarity with sleight of hand could have helped the previous
members of PwC’s governance board.
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Myriam
Robin is Rear Window editor based in
the Melbourne newsroom. A Rear Window columnist since 2017, she previously
reported on financial markets and media. Connect with Myriam on Twitter. Email Myriam at myriam.robin@afr.com
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