Janusz Hooker

L. Janusz Hooker
Personal information
Birth name Leslie Janusz Hooker
Born (1969-09-28) 28 September 1969
Sydney, Australia
Occupation Chairman, LJ Hooker Limited
Website www.ljhooker.com

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

  1. "Janusz Hooker'". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Board of Directors". LJ Hooker.
  3. "Heritage: A message from L. Janusz Hooker". LJ Hooker.
  4. "Janusz Hooker buys back LJ Hooker from Suncorp for $67m". The Australian. 15 October 2009.
  5. "Team". Foundation for Kids. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015.
  6. "Kids to Coast". Foundation for Kids. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015.


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