"The Lives of Brian: Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Animal Activist" by Brian Sherman and AM Jonson
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In 1976, with only $5,000 to his name, South African Brian Sherman moved to Australia with his young family to start a new life. Nothing can prepare Brian for his meteoric rise or for the life-changing tests he will face.
After starting a fund management business with his friend Laurence Freedman they float a novel investment fund on the American Stock Exchange and raise over a billion Australian dollars. Brian goes on to direct the finances of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, and with Laurence, acquires an interest in Network TEN, taking it from receivership to record profits.
He chairs the Australian Museum Trust and he and wife Gene become leading philanthropists while Brian mentors his son, Emile, now an Oscar-winning film producer. Prompted by daughter Ondine, he has an epiphany on animal suffering, and, with her, devotes himself tirelessly to ending factory farming.
This book reveals triumphant highs interwoven with profound lows — including a diagnosis of Parkinson's and related health battles which finally led to his passing in 2022.
About the author
Over more than fifty years in business, Brian Sherman AM was chairman and joint managing director of the EquitiLink Group, a director of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and chairman of its Finance Committee, chairman of ASX-listed Aberdeen Leaders Limited, chairman of a number of investment companies listed on the American Stock Exchange, and a director of Network Ten.
Brian served as president of the Australian Museum Trust, and director of Sherman Galleries and the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. He was co-founder and managing director of the animal charity Voiceless, a director of the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas, a director of the Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, and chairman of the Rambam Israel Fellowships program. For his services to the community and his philanthropy in the arts, medical science, animal rights and the Jewish community Brian was awarded the Order of Australia, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Technology, Sydney. With his wife Gene, he received the B'nai B'rith Gold Medal for outstanding humanitarianism. Brian's life has ben the subject of two episodes of ABC TV's Australian Story.
AM Jonson has written and edited widely on society, ethics, technology and the arts for many presses and publications, including MIT Press as well as mainstream and specialist media. She has a PhD from the University of Sydney. Her background includes working as a strategy, corporate and communications director in NGOs, a media company and for leading philanthropists.
