Highly respected forecaster Phil Ruthven is the founder and Executive Chairman of IBIS, Australia's best known business information, forecasting and strategic services corporation. He is also a director of other companies, advisory boards and charitable organisations. Phil contributes regularly to radio, TV, newspapers, magazines as well as documentaries on business, economics and social issues.

He continues to be one of this nation's most frequent and prolific commentators and is possibly Australia's most respected futurist. As a result, Phil is in big demand to speak at conferences all around the world. Phil has enormous optimism for Australia's future into the 21st Century and says it will be our best owners, managers and enterprises that will take us into the next golden age of prosperity.