The Alec Hogg Show: Back in airline industry he was born into, upLIFTing story of rejuvenated Gidon Novick

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Now 51, Gidon Novick has packed more into his life than most do in three. An untraditional chartered accountant (and MBA), nine years after stepping down as CEO of Comair, he's jumped back into the industry he was born into. In this in-depth biographical podcast, the now 51 year old Novick explains what he has learnt from a global education, decades in the airline business, and a spell doing a supposedly dream job at SA's innovative financial services group Discovery. And how he is using this experience to help LIFT, SA's newest airline run by a graduate of car-hailing software business Uber - and like a gig economy company rather than the hierarchical structures of corporates which dominate the space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
16 Feb 2021 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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