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JAMIE PHEROUS
With Rob Langton
CORPORATE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT
Joining our program on this episode is prolific entrepreneur Jamie Pherous - Founder & Managing Director of Corporate Travel Management. Launched in 1994 as a start-up with just two personnel, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has since grown to become one of Australia’s largest home-grown business success stories, with the firm boasting a market capitalisation in excess of $2.2bn, revenues exceeding $500m per year and some 3,000 staff stationed across the World including in Europe, North America & Asia (as at May, 2024). Born into humble beginnings in Brisbane’s Western Suburbs, Jamie was surrounded by business from an early age through his parents who were involved in a number of ventures spanning the retail & fashion industries - in 1985, he graduated Brisbane Grammar School and eager to ‘get ahead and make money’, enrolled in a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Queensland specialising in law and statistics. Following completion of his tertiary studies in 1988, he initially sought to pursue a career as a stockbroker but soon landed on a graduate role with accounting firm Arthur Anderson, a business in which over the course of the ensuing six or so years, led him to working across the company’s business services & financial consulting divisions across Australia, Asia & the Middle East. Armed with first-hand experiences in and knowledge of the monopoly being held by global players in the corporate travel industry, he established Brisbane-based Corporate Travel Management in 1994
8 – June / July 2024
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