Tony Harrington

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ABOUT TONY HARRINGTON

Tony Harrington is a board member of Brisbane Airport Corporation, Schiphol Australia and Hobart Airport. He is also founder and Chairman of Optimum Equity Partners which provides pragmatic, results driven strategic and business transformation advice across a range of industries from infrastructure to construction and services. He also provides strategic advice to a number of technology focused start ups. He has a distinguished career in financial and professional services, with over 35 years of business and strategic leadership experience, in Australia and internationally. Most recently, Tony was Chief Executive of MinterEllison developing and leading the firm’s 2020 strategy which has positioned MinterEllison as the largest fastest growing national law firm in Australia. Before MinterEllison he was a Managing Director at the fast-growing and innovative global investment bank, Moelis. Prior to that, he was Global Managing Partner, Strategy & Transformation at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and was a member of the PwC Global Executive Leadership Team. From to 2008, Tony was Australian Senior Partner and Chief Executive of PwC, coming into the position not long after the merger of Price Waterhouse with Coopers & Lybrand, and oversaw the successful cultural integration and significant growth of the merged firm in Australia. At Coopers & Lybrand, Tony was Deputy Chairman of the Firm and National Managing Partner of Taxation Services. He was recognised for his not for profit charity sector service with an Order of Australia in 2011.