Award Winners
2009 NSW Award Winners
2009 Telstra New South Wales Business Woman of the Year
Rhonda Brighton-Hall
Macquarie Park
As Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Communication, Asia Pacific and Africa Rhonda Brighton oversees Luxottica Asia Pacific’s 8500 employees regionally. Rhonda leads the development and implementation of strategy in people, culture and communication for a company that in her region alone has a turnover of more than a billion euros.
Hudson Private and Corporate Sector Award
Rhonda Brighton-Hall
Macquarie Park
As Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Communication, Asia Pacific and Africa Rhonda Brighton oversees Luxottica Asia Pacific’s 8500 employees regionally. Rhonda leads the development and implementation of strategy in people, culture and communication for a company that in her region alone has a turnover of more than a billion euros.
Commonwealth Bank Business Owner Award
Annalise Law
Northbridge
After Annalise launched The Kanga Group, it quickly became a leading promotional products company and was responsible for Australia’s largest ever order of promotional products, the Australian government’s ‘Be Alert But Not Alarmed’ fridge magnets. Annalise opened a UK office last year, and now offers around the clock, international services supplying anything with a company logo on it.
White Pages Community and Government Award
Romilly Madew
Sydney
As CEO of the Green Building Foundation of Australia, Romilly Madew’s biggest business achievement has been growing a small industry association into an influential, internationally recognised organisation tackling the issue of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Romilly’s next challenge is extending the green building message into Asia.
Nokia Business Innovation Award
Dr Cathy Foley
Lindfield
Dr Cathy Foley is a Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO, Australia's largest government research organisation. As one of Australia’s top applied physicists, she has achieved international recognition in her field, particularly for the commercialisation of systems for mineral exploration, contributing to the discovery of more than six billion dollars worth of mines worldwide.
marie claire Young Business Women’s Award
Andrea Culligan
Sydney
As Managing Director of Unimail, Australia’s only graduate communications, publishing and design agency, Andrea Culligan has developed a successful business that understands how to talk to the ‘hard to reach’ graduate market. From the development of graduate job directories that go to over 70,0000 students each year, an integrated jobsite receiving over 25,000 unique hits every day, to building targeted employment campaigns through text messages, email and advertising, Andrea has built a successful niche market for connecting students with employers in Australia.