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Warwick Fairfax (born December 1960) is an Australian businessman and consultant based in the United States. He was well known in the 1990s as the media heir and business tycoon who privatised the publicly listed media company, John Fairfax Holdings Limited in 1987; only for the privatised company to fail three years later in spectacular fashion.


Biography

Fairfax is the son of Sir
Warwick Oswald Fairfax Sir Warwick Oswald Fairfax (19 December 1901 – 14 January 1987) was an Australian businessman prominent in the arts as a philanthropist, journalist and playwright. He was a member of the wealthy Fairfax family of media proprietors. Biography ...
and his third wife,
Mary Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...
. Fairfax was educated at both
Balliol College Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...
at
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and Harvard Business School, in the United States. In 1987, following the death of his father, the 26-year-old "young Warwick" successfully took over the then publicly listed John Fairfax Holdings Limited but on 10 December 1990 the company collapsed and a receiver was appointed. The controversial method of financing and purchasing holdings of the established company from family members and the consequential problems arising in the media group in later years are still cited today in Australian media history. In 1991, he migrated to the United States and settled in Annapolis, Maryland, where he founded a business consultancy and executive coach business. In 2016, he founded Crucible Leadership, citing the lessons he learned from the failed takeover of the family media dynasty to offer "compelling insights for anyone who would like to wake up feeling inspired about their work, but doesn't." A book in part describing the failed takeover and in part offering advice to help readers overcome their own setbacks is scheduled to be published Oct. 19, 2021. He is married with three children and serves as an Elder at Bay Area Community Church.


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Harvard Business School alumni Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Australian people of English descent