Wednesday luncheon with John Bastian

Guest Speaker: John Bastian

Did Sir Thomas Playford get it right with industrial development in the `50s?

 

John Bastian was educated at Unley High School and what is now the University of South Australia.  After seven years with PA Management Consultants mainly working in capital intensive industries, he spent fifteen years with Sola Optical, firstly as International Marketing Manager and GM of the Sunglass Lens Division, then eleven years as CEO of Sola Optical Australia.  He has spent the last twenty years as a company director, mainly in agribusiness, and has done some work for the State Government including being Deputy Chair of the inaugural  Economic Development Board and chairing a task force on Regional Development.  He is currently a director of SA Water, chairs a farm machinery import/distribution company and chairs a syndicate of chief executives for the CEO Institute.  John’s passions are international business and economic development.

 

 

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