Craig Farrow

Having commenced his career in 1987, Craig attained his Bachelor of Economic Degree in 1992 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994. His particular areas of expertise are providing business advisory services to small to medium enterprises including involvement on a number of advisory boards across the agribusiness and manufacturing sectors, together with succession planning and private wealth management services.

Craig is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australian Institute of Company Directors and Australian Institute of Management, is a certified practising manager and holds a Diploma of Financial Services.

Involved with the foundation in 1999 of M2 Telecommunications Group Ltd, Craig is now Chairman of that company which listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2004.

Craig is also Chairman of Tonkin Consulting, a large privately owned South Australian Consulting Engineering practice, and a director of a number of private enterprises across the agribusiness, software and property sectors.

In 1999 he was awarded the Institute’s National President’s Award for Service to the Institute and the profession. Craig has also been a taxation spokesperson for the Institute and prepared many media releases and commentaries on small business, taxation & GST matters.

In early 2003, Craig was appointed the SA representative on the Institute’s National Public Practice Advisory Committee which advises the National Board on matters affecting public practice. In January 2004, Craig was appointed the National Chairman of that Committee, and served in that role until late 2007. In January 2008 he was appointed as a director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and remains in that role, also chairing their Governance Committee.

Craig was a member of the SA Branch of the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Education Committee from 1994 until 2000, serving the last three years as chairperson. He represented SA on the National Education Committee from 1998 to 2000.

Craig is also currently a Director of the Respiratory Research Foundation and the SA Division of General Practice Ltd and has previously been Treasurer of organisations involved in the disability field, such as Valleys Housing Association and Heta Incorporated.