Mark Bouris interview with Richard Morecroft at the Sydney Corporate Luncheon Video

Mark Bouris is one of Australia's most successful businessmen. From humble beginnings, the immigrant's son founded Wizard Home Loans, one of Australia's largest non-bank
lenders, and turned it into a financial powerhouse, taking on the big banks by offering consumers something different - smarter access to better value loans.

Mark Bouris started his business with just four people in 1996 and in 2004, after eight years at the helm, it grew to have a staff of 400 and over 250 branches in Australia and New Zealand. The growth of Wizard was initially supported by an alliance between Mark Bouris and Kerry Packer. Bouris went on to introduce Deutsche Bank and ABN Amro as partners in the business. All of these partners sold their stake in Wizard to the world's largest company, GE, in 2004, for in excess of $400M. He remained a non-executive chairman of Wizard until February 2009.

Mark Bouris has been an innovator in the securitisation of Australian mortgages through the acquisition of the company Australian Mortgage Securities. AMS became the largest single wholesale funder of Australian Home Loans.

Mark successfully launched Wizard Home Loans in India which has quickly grown to be a major lender in this market.

In 2006, along with various partners Mark Bouris founded an investment firm, BBB Capital, which provides advice and capital to medium sized and larger corporations.

Mark Bouris believes that all Australians should have access to quality financial advice, and to that end he founded financial services company Yellow Brick Road, of which he is Executive Chairman. Yellow Brick Road offers a full suite of financial services and advice to clients wanting to build financial security for the future.

Mark Bouris has a well earned reputation for championing legislative reform for the benefit of consumers. He is a member of the expert panel appointed by the Federal Government to review Australia's sporting system, a past trustee of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and former chair of the Federal Government's expert group on consumer protection in electronic commerce. In 2004 Mark was appointed Adjunct Professor (Banking & Finance and Business Law and Tax) by the University of NSW. He also hosts the Channel 9 program The Apprentice.

Mark Bouris the author of Wealth Wizard and The Yellow Brick Road to Your Financial Security. He is also a regular financial columnist in News Limited publications including the Sunday Telegraph.

Mark Bouris is a passionate and articulate speaker with a wealth of business and personal wisdom. He speaks on a particularly varied range of topics including business success, entrepreneurship, life balance, and financial and economic issues.