CPA AUSTRALIA - Key Persons
Graham Talbot FCPA joined Atlas Corporation and Seaspan as joint CFO in January 2021. Talbot now hopes to grow a recent acquisition, APR Energy, into a global player in the renewable energy sector.
Previously, Talbot was CFO at a state-owned Abu Dhabi corporation, and prior to this he was based in Copenhagen with Maersk.
Talbot was educated at the University of Canberra and has an MBA from the Melbourne Business School. He is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and a fellow of the Energy Institute.
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- How to Stay Focused in Emergency Situations
While her husband had accompanied Austin on some of her posts, more recently he has chosen to stay in Tasmania with his own work, and the couple meet up for holidays in various locations around the world. Often Austin works on cycle, working for six to eight weeks before returning home for around two weeks, similar to a fly-in fly-out worker.
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- Investor and Senior Equities Analyst at Australian Ethical Investment
- President of a Rostrum
In 2022, Wigglesworth was a mentor in the F3 program, founded by funds management professional Camilla Love.
Wigglesworth is also president of a Rostrum public speaking club and helps run the Rostrum national public speaking competition for high school students.
At home in Kuala Lumpur, Firas executes equity trades for local and foreign clients at RHB, but says that his accounting background has been invaluable.
"The financial planning aspect of my accounting education is very relevant to what I do with the share trading," Firas says.