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July 28, 2021
Maritime safety veteran Angus Mitchell has been appointed as the next CEO of the ATSB (ATSB)
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has announced the appointment of 30-year maritime transport safety veteran Angus Mitchell as its new chief commissioner and chief executive.
The news comes after the recently announced retirement of current CEO Greg Hood, who stepped down from the role on 30 June at the end of his five-year term.
Mitchell joins the ATSB from Maritime Safety Queensland, where he spent the last 2.5 years as general manager, and was responsible for overseeing the safe and efficient movement of vessels into and out of Queensland’s 21 ports.
‘Extremely disappointing’: CEO sailed to Queensland from Sydney hotspot
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A former chief executive and co-founder of a multimillion-dollar technology company could have “put everyone at risk”, after he sailed from a Sydney hotspot and lied on his border pass.
Melbourne businessman Jeromy Young is the co-founder of Atomos, a video technology company, was one of four people who were fined more than $4000 each after three vessels sailed from Sydney last week.
Atomos chief executive Jeromy Young started the company in 2010.
Mr Young – who was chief executive of Atomos until February 2021 when he stepped down from the role – sailed on 34.5-metre super yacht Dreamtime, which charters for $70,000 a week.
Published July 13, 2021
A tech CEO and three of his mates have been fined $4,003 each for jigging Sydney’s lockdown and unlawfully entering Queensland on a superyacht last Wednesday,
The Courier-Mail reports. All four men have since tested negative.
The four passengers cruised up the coast on a 34-metre superyacht called
After arriving in Queensland, they falsely filled border declarations saying they hadn’t been to any COVID hotspots recently.
Their goal? To watch the footy in Brisbane – the Wallabies’ Test against France at Suncorp Stadium, specifically.
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This could have potentially exposed thousands of people to the virus, so it’s just lucky none of the four tested positive for COVID-19 in the end.
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