Janusz Hooker

L. Janusz Hooker (born 28 September 1969) is an Australian businessman and former competitive rower who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Hooker is the Chairman https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljanuszhooker, and was formerly Chief Executive Officer, of LJ Hooker Limited, a company founded by his grandfather Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker. He led a group of investors who acquired the LJ Hooker business from Suncorp in 2009.
Hooker's career has included being the managing director of Asia for W.P. Carey & Co., a New York-based investment management company. Previously he was the founder and CEO of TiNSHED, an Asia-Pacific investment firm. In his early career he was investment officer at the Asian Infrastructure Fund in Hong Kong and a business analyst on the China desk at Price Waterhouse.
He is passionate about youth education, co-founding the Foundation for Kids in New York and the Kids to Coast Program for the Mutitjulu Community in Central Australia.
Hooker has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business in the United States, with a concentration in finance.
At Penn, he was a member of St. Anthony Hall and rowed for the University of Pennsylvania. He credits his rowing success to his time training with team mate - US rower Gerard Sweeney.