Gary Pemberton

{{Short description|Australian business executive}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Gary Milton Pemberton''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}} (born 1940) is an Australian business executive.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mellish|first=Morgan|date=19 February 2005|title=The petty powers that plague Gary Pemberton|url=https://www.afr.com/companies/the-petty-powers-that-plague-gary-pemberton-20050219-j78bu|url-access=limited|work=Australian Financial Review|location= |access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref>

Pemberton is best known for being the former chairman of Brambles, Qantas (1993–2000), TAB, Racing NSW and Billabong.<ref>{{cite news|last=Korporaal|first=Glenda|date=15 August 1994|title=Why Pemberton quit Brambles chair|url=https://www.afr.com/companies/why-pemberton-quit-brambles-chair-19940815-k60ke|url-access=limited|work= Australian Financial Review |location= |access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Pemberton was great but can Jacko steer Qantas|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2000/11/12/pemberton-was-great-but-can-jacko-steer-qantas/|work=Crikey|location= |date=12 November 2000|access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Lacy|first=Christine|date=15 April 1998|title=NSW TAB may show $200m debt|url=https://www.afr.com/companies/nsw-tab-may-show-200m-debt-19980415-k81zw|url-access=limited|work=Australian Financial Review|location= |access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Rennie|first=Philip|date=1 December 2000|title=Meet the chairman of the surf board|url=https://www.afr.com/companies/meet-the-chairman-of-the-surf-board-20001201-kb7ri|url-access=limited|work=Australian Financial Review|location= |access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref>

He was president of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and a commissioner for the Australian Rugby League Commission.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=NRL: Gary Pemberton to retire from ARLC commissioner role at end of October|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-23/pemberton-stands-down-as-arlc-commissioner/4838562|work=ABC News|location= |date=23 July 2013|access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas|first=Ian|date=22 October 1993|title=Olympics posting the cue for Qantas |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/olympics-posting-the-cue-for-qantas-19931022-k5mvm|url-access=limited|work=Australian Financial Review|location= |access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref> Pemberton was on the boards of companies such as Rio Tinto, the Commonwealth Bank and John Fairfax Holdings.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Pemberton bails out of Billabong|url=https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/articles/pemberton-bails-out-of-billabong.html|work=Business News|location= |date=30 November 2020|access-date=24 July 2021}}</ref>

Pemberton was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his service to business, finance, public service reform and the community.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/873298|title=Award: 873298|author= |date=14 June 1999|website=It's an Honour|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|access-date=24 July 2021|quote=}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-bus}} |- {{s-bef|before=Bill Dix}} {{s-ttl|title=Chairperson of Qantas |years=1993–2000}} {{s-aft|after=Margaret Jackson}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

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