a chief financial officer, Rob Marcolina, who has little apparent accounting/finance qualifications or experience.
I initially thought, wow, but then it was a case of, so what, the mathematical genius most likely didn’t need one either. Just come up with the annual profit or loss figure and work backwards, get the dicey mob from KPMG to sign off on it and Alan’s your aunty.
One former Qantas executive who worked under Joyce for many years, told MWM that “they fell in love with consultants after the Jetstar thing, and it just got worse and worse and worse. Then they started importing them into the business. And what you would see is all they were good at was gathering information to tell a story to present to those higher up. But what actually happened beneath them didn’t matter. It was irrelevant.”
I wonder if this former Qantas executive, hung around until the end before he spoke out? I bet he was gutless like the rest of them.