Telstra CEO, Mr Sol Trujillo, and Group Managing Director of Telstra Product Management and Telstra Business Women’s Awards Ambassador, Ms Holly Kramer, will present one exceptional business woman with the 2008 Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year Award at the upcoming national gala dinner in Melbourne, on Tuesday 9 December 2008.
Now in its fourteenth year, the Telstra Business Women’s Awards recognise the valuable contribution women make to the business sector and the wider community. The Awards give successful women the opportunity to reflect and evaluate their achievements, reassess their career and goals, and celebrate their successes.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Treasurer, The Hon. Julie Bishop MP, will be keynote speaker at the event.
The finalists for the 2008 Telstra Australia Business Woman of the Year are:
- Lynne Pezzullo – Director of Access Economics P/L (ACT)
- Rachel Argaman – Chief Executive Officer of Toga Hospitality Group (NSW)
- Annette Gillanders – Managing Director of BiZnorth Pty Ltd (NT)
- Professor Paula Barrett – Director of Pathways Health and Research Centre (QLD)
- Paulette Kolarz – General Manager, Corporate Affairs and Human Resources at Harris Scarfe (SA)
- Chantal Williams – Chief Executive Officer of Stepping Stones Children’s Services (TAS)
- Denice Pitt – Chief Executive Officer of UCMS Group Limited (VIC)
- Leanne Wesche – Managing Director of Pacco Group (WA)
After celebrating their success as state award winners during November, 34 inspirational business women from around Australia will also contest for the national award in their category.
This year’s finalists in the national Telstra Business Women’s Awards are:
Yellow™ Business Owner Award (for business owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business with responsibility for key management decision making);
- Professor Paula Barrett – Director of Pathways Health and Research Centre, West End, QLD;
- Louise Curtis – Owner and Director of Hamperesque, Fyshwick, ACT;
- Angela Giacoumis – Managing Director of Careerlink Training & Recruitment Services, Torrensville, SA;
- Annette Gillanders – Managing Director of BiZnorth Pty Ltd, Casuarina, NT;
- Kirsten MacKelden – Director and co-Founder of Indigo Media Group, Sandringham, VIC;
- Naomi Simson – Founder and Chief Experience Officer of RedBalloon Days, Pyrmont, NSW;
- Leanne Wesche – Owner of Pacco Group, North Fremantle, WA; and,
- Chantal Williams – Chief Executive Officer of Stepping Stones Children’s Services, Ulverstone, TAS.
Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award (for employees in the private and corporate sector or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business);
- Rachel Argaman – Chief Executive Officer of Toga Hospitality Group, Ultimo, NSW;
- Paulette Kolarz – General Manager of Corporate Affairs and Human Resources, Harris Scarfe Australia, North Adelaide, SA;
- Ann Murray – State Manager of Toll Tasmania/Edwards Transport, Newnham, TAS;
- Lynne Pezzullo – Director of Access Economics P/L, Wanniassa, ACT;
- Denice Pitt – Chief Executive Officer of UCMS Group Limited, Melbourne, VIC;
- Tory Richards – Chief Executive Officer and Director of Reed Funds Management Limited (RFML), and Director of Reed Property Group Consolidated (RPGC), Maroochydore, QLD;
- Yvonne Van der Horst – Managing Director of McNeil Surgical NT P/L, Winnellie, NT; and,
- Angela Whittington – Chief Executive Officer of Imaging the South, Bunbury, WA.
IBM Community and Government Award (for employees in government departments, statutory bodies and not-for-profit organisations);
- Professor Margaret Abernethy – Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and Director of the Melbourne Graduate School of Management, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC;
- Suzanne Barry – Director of Gap Community Child Care Centre, Alice Springs, NT;
- Detective Superintendent Helen Begg – Local Area Commander St George, New South Wales Police Force, St George, NSW;
- Kate Gould – General Manager and Associate Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival Corporation, Adelaide, SA;
- Rebecca Moore – Executive Manager Community Services at City of Nedlands, Nedlands, WA;
- Tu Pham – Auditor General, ACT Auditor General’s Office, Civic Square, ACT;
- Bronwyn Sheehan – Chief Executive Officer, The Pyjama Foundation, Lutwyche, QLD; and,
- Becky Shrimpton – Director of Communications & Economic Development, Launceston City Council, Launceston, TAS.
Nokia Business Innovation Award (for women who are using innovation to commercialise new products and/or services);
- Ivanka Belic – Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director of Workers Cottage t/a Little Workers, Paddington, QLD;
- Louise Curtis – Owner and Director of Hamperesque, Fyshwick, ACT;
- Amabel Fulton – Director of Rural Development Services, Hobart, TAS;
- Gayle Heron – Founder and Managing Director of LI’TYA, Braeside, VIC;
- Jane Mussared – General Manager Health and Community Services of ACH Group, Adelaide, SA;
- Naomi Simson – Founder and Chief Experience Officer of RedBalloon Days, Pyrmont, NSW; and,
- Leanne Wesche – Owner of Pacco Group, North Fremantle, WA.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Young Business Women’s Award (for women aged 34 years and under as at Friday 06 June 2008);
- Jacinta Caithness – CEO-International for Boost Juice Bars and Chief Operating Officer of Boost Investment Group, Glen Iris, VIC;
- Nyree Corby – Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Topia Project, Chippendale, NSW;
- Chivonne Hayes – Owner of Platinum Accounting Burnie, Burnie, TAS;
- Paulette Kolarz – General Manager of Corporate Affairs and Human Resources at Harris Scarfe Australia, North Adelaide, SA;
- Olivia Maragna – General Manager of Aspire Retire, Stones Corner, QLD;
- Rachel Peck – Principal of peckvonhartel, Canberra, ACT; and,
- Vanessa van der Swaagh – Managing Director of Professional Placements, Victoria Park, WA.
For more information about the 2008 Telstra Business Women’s Awards or to purchase tickets to the Presentation Gala Dinner in Melbourne at Crown Towers on Tuesday 9 December, please visit www.businesswomensawards.telstra.com or call 1800 817 536.
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Deborah Robinson says
Just to clarify: Nyree Corby from Topia didn’t win the national Young Business Woman of the Year Award, that honour actually went to Jacinta Caithness from Boost Juice Bars.
Deborah Robinson says
Just to clarify: Nyree Corby from Topia didn’t win the national Young Business Woman of the Year Award, that honour actually went to Jacinta Caithness from Boost Juice Bars.