6 days ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Dave Emerson emerges from consultancy-land for Virgin's ASX redux
Dave Emerson is the man at the centre of the most talked-about float of the year, the executive who is running the country's second-biggest airline and, at the end of the month, likely to be the toast of the market. And yet, it is difficult to find someone who knows him, let alone has met him.
Those who have met the newish Virgin Australia chief executive – he took over from long-time managing director Jayne Hrdlicka in March after almost four years as chief commercial officer – describe him as 'fair'. Others say he is 'consultant like'. It is hardly rousing stuff. But here he is, 58 years old, Arizona-born, and the man who navigated Virgin back to the ASX.
