Russel Howcroft is an Australian business man and media personality best known as a panellist on the ABC television program The Gruen Transfer.
He is currently the national CEO of advertising agency George Patterson Y&R.
Russel Howcraft has been a regular panellist on The Gruen Transfer since the program's inception in 2008. In September 2011 it was announced he would host the weekend morning program on Melbourne talk radio station 3AW, filling in for Tom Elliott who is in turn currently filling for Derryn Hinch.[1]