Meet The Team
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Brett Blundy
“If it’s worth doing, do it well, do the best you can. If you can do it, you ought to do it”
Brett Blundy is one of Australia’s best known and most successful retailers and entrepreneurs. He is the founder of private investment firm, BBRC, which has grown from a single record store in Australia to a global investment portfolio valued at US$2.3bn. Brett is also the chairman and co-founder of Lovisa with a substantial shareholding in Lovisa.
Brett grew up in a rural outskirt of Victoria and wrote the first chapter for his retail success story with an investment at the age of 20; the purchase of ‘Disco Duck’, now known as Sanity Entertainment Group. From there, Brett continued to grow his retail empire by partnering with other talented operational executives. His tenacity in overcoming challenges, willingness to think unconventionally, and desire to continuously develop has seen BBRC grow well beyond its retail heritage to include investments in the broader consumer space, property, agriculture, and funds management. His retail success is the result of a customer-centric culture, trust, integrity, communication, and do things with a sense of urgency.
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Darren Holland
“Culture cannot be copied and can be your #1 competitive advantage“
Darren Holland is a high-performance coach, presenter, mentor, and property entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in creating winning cultures, growing, and developing leaders and scaling business. He is passionate about and coaches on mastery in goal setting, time management, accountability, culture, negotiation and wellbeing and shows how these skills are the foundation for successful leaders and sustainable businesses.
Until recently Darren was the Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Board member of Aventus an ASX listed retail property company. In 2004, he joined Brett Blundy and co-founded Aventus which he grew from one retail centre worth $30ml to 55 centres valued at $4.5bl after the merger with Home Co Daily Needs REIT in March 2022.
Citing Brett Blundy as an important mentor in his career, Darren firmly believes that accountability and teamwork in the 10 + 1 culture commitments are estimated factors in creating highly effective leaders and managers and a winning culture.