Mr Kearns has been a Director of AVJennings Limited since 21 March 2019. He was subsequently appointed Chief Executive Officer on 10 January 2022 and as Managing Director on 15 February 2022. Mr Kearns has over fifteen years’ corporate leadership experience and has been instrumental in driving cultural change, building new revenue streams and improving stakeholder engagement in banking, insurance and financial planning, all with involvement in the property sector. Mr Kearns was previously a Director of Venues NSW, a Government Board that owns and operates multiple sports and entertainment venues across New South Wales. Additionally he was a member of the NSW “Game Changers” Ministerial Advisory Board for Women in Sport. He was CEO of Centric Wealth where he gained experience in the Private Equity world which added to his experience at Investec Bank in property funds, private clients and his corporate finance relationships. Mr Kearns is a Director of Coolabah Capital Investments, a private fixed interest funds management business. He was director of the committee to successfully get the Rugby World Cup (RWC) to Australia in 2027 and 2029 and has just been appointed to the Board of the Organising Committee for those RWC’s.
Mr Kearns was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for significant service to the community through support for charitable organisations, to business, and to rugby union at the elite level. He played 67 tests for the Australia national rugby union team, Wallabies (1989-1999) and captained the team ten times and after his rugby career worked as a rugby commentator with FOXSports for 21 years.
