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The Team
Sean Aylmer
Editor-in-chief
Sean Aylmer is a specialist in economics and financial services. He trained as an economist and worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia before shifting to journalism. Sean has worked at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review, where he has been an economics correspondent based in Canberra and a foreign correspondent based in New York. He has held senior management positions including news editor and banking and finance editor at the AFR. Sean has been a finalist twice in the Walkley awards for journalism and in 2000 won the Citibank Award for Excellence in Journalism (General Business).
Kevin Chinnery
Weekly editor
Kevin Chinnery spent 24 years editing the Asian and Australian affiliates of Lloyd's List, the global shipping and logistics daily newspaper, based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney. He travelled widely covering the explosion in Asia's trade and maritime industries in the 1980s and 1990s, with special emphasis on China's emergence. He also spent time at sea writing on the lives of the crews of large cargo ships. He reported extensively on reforms in Australia's transport and waterfront industries before joining BRW in 2006.
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 the financial markets of 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.
John Stensholt
Deputy editor/Rich lists editor
John Stensholt is the editor of BRW's Rich 200 list as well as the Young Rich and Executive Rich lists. He also writes profiles and corporate strategy and investment features. John writes extensively on sports business and has twice been nominated in the "Best coverage of an issue in Australian sport" category in the Australian Sports Commission media awards.
Kate Mills
Deputy 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.
Mark Maric
Art director
Mark Maric is the art director of BRW and has been working in the publishing and advertising industries for the past 16 years. He also has extensive experience in the software development environment and specialises in UI Design. If he were a font, he would be Rockwell Extra Bold.
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.
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.
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. Her online experience harks back before the internet to a news website on Videotext, and as a journalist she has covered the IT industry for more than a dozen titles, including The Australian Financial Review and MIS. She holds tertiary qualifications in linguistics and literature, economics and IT.
Damon Frith
Chief 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, and analysis of the new pathways being pursued by business.
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
Reporter
Leo D'Angelo Fisher specialises in management and leadership issues, emerging companies and corporate strategy. He is a former editor of Rydges magazine, deputy editor of Far East Business, deputy editor of Business Queensland and a senior business writer at The Bulletin . He wrote the book Rethink: The Story of Edward de Bono in Australia.
Lisa Allen
Reporter
Lisa Allen is an award-winning senior journalist covering travel, tourism and real estate. She has worked for publications including The Australian Financial Review and The Australian newspaper for the past 14 years. Lisa relocated to Sydney after three years as Queensland bureau chief for The Australian Financial Review. Her book The Travel Book was published by Random House in 2007. Lisa has a graduate diploma in communications from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Ainslie Chandler
Reporter
Ainslie Chandler is an award-winning journalist who covers the residential and commercial property sectors, including editing the magazine's flagship Hot Property editions. She has been a writer for close to a decade, working for several regional newspapers before joining The West Australian, where she was commercial property editor. She joined BRW in 2008 after a stint in London as finance editor at Mining Journal. Ainslie holds a BA in mass communication from Curtin University and was a 2009 fellow of the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre.
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.
Agnes King
Reporter
Agnes King covers the accounting, engineering and consulting professions. She has worked for The Australian Financial Review, the technology sections of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald as well as MIS magazine.
Jane Lindhe
Reporter
A business reporter for more than seven years, Jane Lindhe has specific experience in the financial services, franchising, fashion and retail sectors. Jane has a particular interest in emerging Australian companies and has edited BRW’s “Fast” issues, such as Fast Franchises and Fast Starters and BRW’s Top 50 Entertainers list. Prior to joining BRW, Jane worked for a financial services trade publication and has written for several national publications including The Age.
Gina McColl
Reporter
A journalist with BRW since 1997, Gina writes on cultural and social trends and their effects on business. Previously the online editor of BRW.com.au, she has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and an unfinished PhD on cross-dressing languishing in a drawer.
Anthony Sibillin
Reporter
Anthony has worked as a business journalist in London for PrivateEquityOnline.com and CFO Europe and was deputy editor of EuroBusiness. He has been an adviser to government on budget policy and to commercial and government clients on infrastructure projects.
Judith Tydd
Reporter
Judith Tydd began her reporting career covering mortgages for Australian Broker and Mortgage Professional Australia trade magazines, and was also associate editor of MPA Lender magazine. She has previously worked as a writer for Fairfax Books, and has most recently been employed as a tax reporter for Accountancy Age in London. Judith joined BRW in 2009 and covers the legal profession.
Kath Walters
Reporter
Kath analyses business ideas, news and trends across areas including climate change, science, health, business angels, venture capital and government policy. She covers small, medium and large businesses, public and private. In 2006, she won the Citibank Award for Excellence in Journalism (General Business). From 2001 to 2004, she edited BRW's accounting section.
Dan Hall
Reporter
Dan Hall specialises in mining and resources and covers a range of sectors and business issues for BRW. Prior to joining BRW, Dan edited manufacturing and mining trade publications FEN and Australian Mining. Dan has also written for CFO and The Australian Financial Review. He holds a Bachelor of Communication from Newcastle University.
Emily Chantiri
Reporter
Emily Chantiri has been a personal finance writer for the past twelve years. Emily is the co-author of The Money Club which became a best seller. She is the author of four books on personal finance. Emily joined BRW in 2007 and has worked on several issues of the BRW Rich 200. Emily has written for a number of Australian magazine and was a regular columnist for the ABC's Life etc magazine.
Jessica Gardner
Reporter
Jessica Gardner has dabbled in sports reporting, medical research and online advertising for music labels. Jessica joined BRW in September 2009 as editorial assistant and was made a reporter in May 2010. She has particular interest in media, marketing, science and technology and ponders the arrival of Generation Y in business.