Background
Wylie was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1961.
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John Wylie
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Education
He attended Brisbane Boys College. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce with first class honors from University of Queensland. In 1983, he was a Rhodes Scholar and completed a Master of Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford University.
Career
He was previously Managing Director and Head of Corporate Advisory of Lazard and Chair of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust. He is Chairman of the Australian s Commission, and President of the State Library of Victoria Board. After completing his Rhodes Scholarship, he took up a position with First Boston in New New York
He moved to Melbourne in 1991 with First Boston that later became Cr Suisse First Boston / Cr Suisse.
He was Managing Director of Cr Suisse First Boston between 1994 and 1999. Major financial projects that he worked on included the privatization of QANTAS and Victorian Government’s sell down of its power industry between 1993 and 1999.
lieutenant has been stated that power industry sale project made his career as it resulted in $14 billion more than initial revenue projections. In 2000, Wylie with Mark Carnegie, he formed Carnegie Wylie.
In 2007, the business was acquired by Lazard.
In 2013, he was the Managing Director of Lazard in Australia. Wylie’s advice has been sought by significant companes including BHP Billiton, Telstra, Coles Myer, Transurban and Toll Holdings. He stepped down as head of Lazard Advisory in Australia at the end of 2014.
Wylie was Chairman of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust from 1998 to March 2013.
In 1999, he negotiated a deal where MCG received $5 million a year from the Australian Football League for 30 years. In announcing his appointment, Senator Kate Lundy said “"John has extensive experience in Australia"s corporate and sport sectors and I know he will ably steer the board and oversee the continued growth of sport in Australia." In November 2012, he announced a new elite sport strategy for Australian sport called Winning Edge 2012-2022.
He is a Collingwood Football Club supporter. Besides his sport appointments, he was Honorary Treasurer of the Florey Neurosciences Institutes between 2007 and 2009.
In May 2012, he replaced John Cain as President of the Library Board of Victoria.
He is a Trustee of the Global Rhodes Trust. In 2006, Wylie walked the Kokoda Trail with a group called “Once Were Warriors". In 2007, he was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (Department of Administration and Management) for services to the investment banking and financial services industry, and to the community through sporting and medical organisations.
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Membership
Members of the group included prominent Australians Simon Crean, Ron Barassi, Paul Little and John Bertrand.
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