Susan Williams is the founder of The Finishing Touch, a business that specialises in helping people with one of the most stressful times in their life – moving.
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Susan Williams is the founder of The Finishing Touch, a business that specialises in helping people with one of the most stressful times in their life – moving.
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Peter Ritchie is perhaps best known for his role as the long-standing chief executive of McDonald's Australia. But since "retiring" from this role in the mid-90s he's become a prominent company director (he is the deputy chair of Seven Network) and an investor in several companies. One of these if Culligan Water, which specialises in water filters for commercial use. The company has revenue of $10 million, but Ritchie has plans to grow this tenfold. Today he talks about Australia's water culture, the art of customer service and why he'll never retire.
Simon Baker is seen as one of Australia's most successful web entrepreneurs. Since leaving realestate.com.au in August 2008, he has established Classified AdVentures, which has an investment arm and a division that is incubating five classifieds-focused businesses.
Colin Thomson is the chief executive of Gold Coast food manufacturer San Diego Tortilla Factory, which stands out in Australia's manufacturing sector as a company that is growing quickly. The business turned over $4.5 million last year and went to 24-hour production to keep up with demand.
Jo Burston was working in a corporate role before she had an idea for a business which could provide services for payroll packaging and outsourcing, among other contractor services.
David Salter left a job at a law firm and jumped head-first into entrepreneurship when he started his document translation business, Linguistico, which services the finance, healthcare, insurance and legal industries. 
Today we travel across the Tasman to meet New Zealand entrepreneur Rod Drury, the founder and chief executive of SME accounting software provider Xero.
Adrian Morrissy started takeaway food franchise wokinabox in 2002 after a trip to Thailand and has grown the business to a point where it has 37 stores. He explains why franchisees must be willing to work in the business, why franchisors struggle in Melbourne and why the US and UK are great expansion opportunities. 
