Upcoming forum
Jayne Hrdlicka
Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Australia
- Date
- Monday 17 May 2021
- Time
- 12pm-2pm
- Venue
- Grand Ballroom, Hilton Brisbane
- Price
- $175 per person
$1,650 per table of 10 - Tickets are sold out
- Please register below for the waitlist and we will contact you if tickets become available.
About Jayne Hrdlicka
Jayne Hrdlicka is one of Australia’s most senior business leaders and one of only three female CEOs of the world’s top 100 airlines. As CEO and Managing Director of Virgin Australia, Jayne is strategically repositioning the airline during one of the toughest times in aviation history.
In 2010, Jayne joined Qantas and soon became Group CEO of Jetstar Airways in 2012, building one of the most successful low-cost airlines in the world. Jayne moved on to become Managing Director and CEO of the a2 Milk Company in 2018.
Jayne was appointed CEO of Virgin Australia in November 2020 when Bain Capital took ownership of the airline, after it became the first major airline in Australian history to exit voluntary administration.
Jayne is Chairman and Board President of Tennis Australia and has held senior positions in Bain & Co, initially in the USA and then in Australia. She has also served as a director of Woolworths.
Jayne will speak to her personal journey from growing up in Kansas, the wheat plains heartland of America, to emigrating to Australia to leading major listed and private companies. She will also speak to the leadership that matters to her, the key lessons from her leadership roles to date, and her goals with the major business transformation program at Virgin.
It will be a pleasure to welcome back one of Australia’s leading journalists and proud QUT alumnus, Ellen Fanning, as moderator for the QUT Business Leaders’ Forum.
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