Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 10 with Grant Swart
Episode 10 of our Adelaide Connected podcast, powered by the Committee for Adelaide is now LIVE and features Grant Swart, Vice President & General Manager Australia at Mayne Pharma. Originally from South Africa, Grant relocated to Adelaide in January 2023 to take up the role of Vice President and General Manager Australia of Mayne Pharma, […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 9 with Wade Ormsby
Episode 9 of our Adelaide Connected podcast, powered by the Committee for Adelaide is now LIVE and features Wade Ormsby, a Professional Golfer. Born and raised in Adelaide, Wade grew up in West Lakes and was never far from a golf course or a go-karting track. After graduating from high school, he attended the University […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 8 with Husam Al-Shawa
Episode 8 of our Adelaide Connected podcast, powered by the Committee for Adelaide is now LIVE and features Husam Al-Shawa, Enterprise Risk Manager at EY Australia. Husam moved from Jordan to Adelaide in September 2022, with his wife and one year old daughter, to take up the role of Enterprise Risk Manager with EY Australia. […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 7 with Dr Roshanak Amrein
Episode 7 of our Adelaide Connected podcast, powered by the Committee for Adelaide is now LIVE and features Dr Roshanak (Rosh) Amrein, Principal Cosmetic Dentist at Adelaide Cosmetic Dentistry. Originally from Iran, Dr Rosh moved to South Australia in the mid-1990s as part of the Bahá’í community, which faced severe persecution in her home country. […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 6 with JC van Niekerk
Episode 6 of our Adelaide Connected podcast, powered by the Committee for Adelaide, is now LIVE and features JC van Niekerk, Manager at PwC. Originally from South Africa, JC is a Chartered Accountant who has lived and worked in Bermuda and New York before relocating to South Australia in 2024. He is now a Manager […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 5 with Spencer McKinney
Episode 5 of our Adelaide Connected podcast, powered by the Committee for Adelaide is now LIVE and features Spencer McKinney, Principal Project Controller at Mott MacDonald. Originally from the US, Spencer has lived and worked in Fiji, England and Wales before moving to Adelaide in late 2025, with his wife and young family, to work […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 4 with Joshua Newnes
Episode 4 is now LIVE and features Joshua Newnes, Senior Creative at Fuller. Originally from Mumbai, Josh has forged a successful career in copywriting and advertising, working across several multi-national creative agencies in the Middle East and India before moving to Adelaide in 2018. As a Senior Creative at Fuller, Josh is responsible for creative […]
Workforce needs: International Talent & Skilled Migration
The Committee for Adelaide, through the Adelaide Connected program, and in partnership with Thomsons, recently hosted a discussion on the importance of international talent and skilled migration in South Australia. With large scale projects like AUKUS and T2D gaining momentum, and the growing need for workers in health, education, construction, ICT, energy and resources, now is the time to […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 3 with Amerdeep and Poornima Yadav
Episode 3 is now LIVE and features married couple Amerdeep and Poornima Yadav. In this episode, we chat with Amerdeep and Poornima (also known as ‘Nima’), who arrived in Adelaide from India in mid-2024. Adelaide quickly felt like home for the married couple, who made the move with their two young boys, Arjun (10) and […]
Adelaide Connected Podcast: Season 5 Episode 2 with William Van Ausdal
Episode 2 is now LIVE and features William Van Ausdal, Head of Sustainability at Flinders University. Originally from the United States, William has worked in Oregon, California, Auckland and Wellington before moving to Adelaide in 2019 (after tasting some of Adelaide’s famous sparkling shiraz!). We chat to William about his early life growing up in […]