{"id":777033289,"date":"2025-10-17T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777033289"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:05:01","slug":"tabcorp-appoints-vivian-stewart-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tabcorp-appoints-vivian-stewart-to-board","title":{"rendered":"Tabcorp appoints Vivian Stewart to board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stewart has over 17 years of public company board experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Tabcorp Holdings has appointed telecommunications and technology specialist Vivian Stewart<\/strong> as a Non-Executive Director (NED)<\/strong>, pending regulatory approvals. Stewart, who has over 17 years of public company board experience, will join as an observer on November 1 before taking up his full appointment once approvals are finalised.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His background includes executive leadership roles at software company Bigtincan<\/strong>. He is the founder of Callafin<\/strong>, a corporate advisory firm specialising in mergers, acquisitions and capital raisings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tabcorp Chair Brett Chenoweth<\/strong> said: \u201cHe\u2019s an experienced director with a deep knowledge of the telecommunications and technology sectors, which is critical as it underpins a large part of our business. His deep knowledge will be invaluable as we continue to evolve and innovate our product offerings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appointment follows a period of board renewal at Tabcorp, with Stewart filling one of two vacancies left by the departures of former directors Bruce Akhurst<\/strong> and Justin Milne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> The Star Entertainment Group announces board changes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stewart has over 17 years of public company board experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":20369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Tabcorp Holdings has appointed Vivian Stewart as a Non-Executive Director, pending regulatory approvals, to bolster its board with telecommunications and technology expertise. Stewart, founder of corporate advisory firm Callafin, brings extensive experience in M&A, capital raisings, and software, which is deemed critical for Tabcorp's product evolution and innovation. This appointment is part of Tabcorp's ongoing board renewal process.","focusai_entities":"Tabcorp Holdings, Vivian Stewart, Bigtincan, Callafin, Brett Chenoweth, Bruce Akhurst, Justin Milne, The Star Entertainment Group","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Tabcorp's Tech Strategy","query":"How will Mr. Stewart's deep telecommunications and technology sector expertise specifically influence Tabcorp's product roadmap and digital transformation initiatives, particularly in light of evolving iGaming verticals?"},{"label":"Governance & M&A Outlook","query":"Given Mr. Stewart's background in corporate advisory, M&A, and capital raisings, what strategic implications might this appointment have for Tabcorp's inorganic growth strategy or capital allocation framework?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[289,13716],"class_list":["post-777033289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-australia","tag-tabcorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777033289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777033306,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033289\/revisions\/777033306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777033289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777033289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777033289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}