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Indispensable insights into success — and what really matters — from one of Australia's foremost business leaders
Product Description
'Leadership lessons from a six-billion-dollar man.' —The Australian Financial Review
What Matters: Secrets of great leaders, business builders and professional investors offers real-life, practical advice on business, managing people and building value.
Unlike many other business books, this is not an academic text. It is not filled with arcane statistical models, faddish surveys, deep data capture or endless case studies. Instead,What Matters offers anecdotes, philosophies and insights from one of Australia’s leading business minds — insights which have been tried and tested over a 30-plus year career in business and investment banking.
Far beyond leadership lessons from ‘a six-billion-dollar man’, this indispensable book will remind you what really matters both in business and in life.
About the Author
Andrew Pridham AO was Chief Executive Officer of MA Financial Group over its first decade.
In 2020, Andrew was appointed as Group Vice Chairman of MA Financial Group, succeeded in his role as CEO by his two co-founders. At this time, ASX-listed MA Financial Group had grown significantly since its creation in 2009. Today, MA Financial Group has more than 370 staff spread across its offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and London. It manages approximately $6 billion in assets and has annual revenue approaching $200 million.
Andrew is Chairman of the Sydney Swans Football Club, a leading club in the AFL, and Deputy Chairman of the Sydney Swans Foundation.
Andrew has more than 30 years’ experience in business and investment banking. He spent 13 years at UBS, including time based in Sydney, London and Singapore. Andrew played a major role in building UBS into a market leading position in the Australian market. Aged 29, he was appointed to the role of Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking Australasia, and was a member of the UBS Global Investment Banking Management Committee.
In 1999, Andrew was appointed as UBS’s Global Head of Real Estate and was based in London and ultimately Singapore. During this time he was responsible for UBS’s global real estate investment banking activities with revenues of more than $1 billion per annum.
After leaving UBS in 2002, Andrew founded boutique investment banking business, First Provident Corporation (“FPC”). In 2003, FPC was rated in the top 5 M&A houses in Australia and played a lead advisory role in several high-profile public market M&A transactions, with a combined value of more than $30 billion.
In 2004, FPC was acquired by JPMorgan and Andrew was appointed Head of Investment Banking, Australasia, ultimately becoming its Executive Chairman. During his 6 years at JPMorgan, he played a significant role in growing JPMorgan’s Investment Banking business in Australia.
Andrew was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2019 Australia Day honours for distinguished service to the investment banking and asset management sector, to sporting groups, and to philanthropy.
Andrew is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at the University of South Australia.
Industry Reviews
'Learning from experience has stood the test of time as one of the best ways to acquire new skills. Andrew’s clarity and rare insight combine to instruct, guide and encourage the reader to strive for greater success and outcomes. Highly recommended.' —Professor David Lloyd, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of South Australia
'What Matters is a must read. It shares the secrets of success based on real life experiences in business, sport and investing.' —Adam Goodes, 372-game AFL Champion and 2014 Australian of the Year
'Whether you are a business insider, or a curious outsider wondering how it all works, these are indispensable insights from one of the very best.' —Adam Spencer, Australian author and media personality
