Janusz Hooker
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| Birth name | Leslie Janusz Hooker | ||||||||||||
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28 September 1969 Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | Chairman, LJ Hooker Limited | ||||||||||||
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L. Janusz Hooker (born 28 September 1969) is an Australian businessman and former competitive rower who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.[1] Hooker is the Chairman https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljanuszhooker, and was formerly Chief Executive Officer, of LJ Hooker Limited,[2] a company founded by his grandfather Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker.[3] He led a group of investors who acquired the LJ Hooker business from Suncorp in 2009.[4]
Hooker's career has included being the managing director of Asia for W.P. Carey & Co., a New York-based investment management company. Previously he was the founder and CEO of TiNSHED, an Asia-Pacific investment firm. In his early career he was investment officer at the Asian Infrastructure Fund in Hong Kong and a business analyst on the China desk at Price Waterhouse.[2]
He is passionate about youth education, co-founding the Foundation for Kids[5] in New York and the Kids to Coast Program for the Mutitjulu Community in Central Australia.[6]
Hooker has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business in the United States, with a concentration in finance.[2]
At Penn, he was a member of St. Anthony Hall and rowed for the University of Pennsylvania. He credits his rowing success to his time training with team mate - US rower Gerard Sweeney.
References
- ↑ "Janusz Hooker'". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
- 1 2 3 "Board of Directors". LJ Hooker.
- ↑ "Heritage: A message from L. Janusz Hooker". LJ Hooker.
- ↑ "Janusz Hooker buys back LJ Hooker from Suncorp for $67m". The Australian. 15 October 2009.
- ↑ "Team". Foundation for Kids.
- ↑ "Kids to Coast". Foundation for Kids.
External links
- Janusz Hooker at WorldRowing.com from FISA