The excitement around Australia’s most prestigious business event is mounting as The CEO Magazine unveils its list of this year’s finalists who have a chance at taking home one of the coveted trophies at the 2024 Executive of the Year Awards.

Read on for the full list of the finalists, carefully selected by our esteemed panel of judges in recognition of their inspiring efforts over the last year:

Chris Andrews, La Trobe Financial

Chris Ellis, Finder

Kate Farrar, Brighter Super

Matthew Fenning, Esencia Wealth

Goro Gupta, Ethical Property Investments

Paul Huggins, Hamilton Chase (Momentum Wealth)

Troy MacMillan, The Wealth Designers

Allan McKeown, Prosperity Advisers Group

Hakan Ozyon, Hejaz Financial Services

Christian Stevens, Flint and Finance Farmers Australia

Sam El Rihani, Decode Group

Dominique Gill, Urban Core

Andrew Jakab, Dyson Group of Companies

James Chin Moody, Sendle

Jamitha Pathirana, B dynamic Logistics

Michael Potenza, AWH

Damon Smith, Geocon Group

Pat Tallon, Civmec

Mark Tobin, Followmont Transport

Ivan Vanis, Tasman Logistics Services

Heuson Bak, Solar Naturally

Christofer Catania, MEC Mining

Guy Chalkley, Endeavour Energy

Nikhil Jayaraj, Regen Power

Flavia Tata Nardini, Fleet Space Technologies

Nitesh Singh, Howden Australia

Gerhard Veldsman, Roy Hill Holdings

Matthew Wilkins, Venergy Solar Australia

Michelle Aquilina, MoleMap Australia & New Zealand

Aniss Chami, Vitex Pharmaceuticals

Mike Covey, Henry Schein

Richard de Haast, Scalabrini Villages

Raj Khillan, Western Specialist Centre

Yvonne Lungershausen, Avance Clinical

Esha Oberoi, Leora

Mark O’Brien, Impression Dental Group

Lisa Varley, The Entourage Effect

Yasser Zaki, Tender Loving Care

Dennis Barnhart, Dye & Durham Australia

Geoff Boreland, Evolution Systems

Robert Jurcec, OneKloudX

Rajan Kumar, The Lumery (part of Accenture Song)

John Paitaridis, CyberCX

Simon Penhaligon, youX

Gavriel Schneider, Risk 2 Solution

Ian Wilson, Sales Workshops International

Guillaume Cantelou, Wella Company

Germaine Chua, Real Pet Food Company

Pamela Jabbour, Total Image Group

Palash Nandy, Legrand Australia and New Zealand

Tony Overstead, Flame Security International

Elke Pascoe, The LittleOak Company

Travis Reddy, DefendTex

Martin-Ulrich Ripple, ANCA CNC Machines

Justin Rooney, Flame Security International

Chris Volpe, Fox Wardrobes

Louise Baxter, Starlight Children’s Foundation

Chris Burns, Hutt St Centre

Timothy Conolan, TLC for Kids

Nora Fraser, The Multicultural Professional Network

Arabella Gibson, Gidget Foundation Australia

Randa Habelrih, Autism MATES

Lance Kawaguchi, Cure Brain Cancer Foundation

Scott Maggs, Skin Check Champions

Shaun Pearce, Ironbark Aboriginal Corporation

Selina Tomasich, Hair Aid

Kerry Bolton, Caring Lotus

Chris Christofi, Reventon

Nick Humphrey, Hamilton Locke

Giuseppe Porcelli, Lakeba Group

Dominic Porter, All Care Australia

Judy Sahay, Crowd Media Group

Sonia Shwabsky, Kwik Kopy Australia

Claire Thomas, Empact Group

Jason Tonelli, Zenith Media

Megan Tuohey, Making Relationships Work

Suvidh Arora, PropHero

Catherine Baker, Belle Property Central Coast

Nathan Chivas, Central Element

Anouk Darling, Scape Australia Management

Lloyd Edge, Aus Property Professionals

David Gagovski, Cleaning Melbourne

Daniel Laruccia, Spyre Group

Karuna Mazzocchi, Coronis Group

Scott O’Neill, Rethink Group

Justin Vetsavong, Leaky Roof

Michael Cassel, Michael Cassel Group

Craig Hooley, Minor Hotels

Fung Lam, New Aim

Luke Todd, EVDirect

Michael Ramsey, STRONG Pilates Franchising

Duncan Thomson, The Continental Sorrento

Thaio Tomazetti, 2Stay Accommodation Group

James Thornton, Intrepid Travel

Susan Wheeldon, Airbnb

Paul Widdis, Everything Caravan & Camping

Winners for all categories will be announced during the Awards ceremony held at The Star in Sydney, Australia on Thursday, 14 November 2024.

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