2024 Business Leaders Hall of Fame inductees

The 15th annual Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame welcomed five new inductees at a gala dinner in Brisbane last night, celebrating outstanding contributions to the state.

The 2024 inductees span self-made celebrity hairdresser and entrepreneur Stefan Ackerie AM, corporate, Indigenous and reconciliation leader Shelley Reys AO, Australia’s largest pineapple growers Piñata Farms, information and communications technology company Data#3, and tourism, property and boating entrepreneurs the Longhurst Family.

The Business Leaders Hall of Fame was established in 2009 and is a partnership between QUT and the State Library of Queensland.

It recognises outstanding Queensland business leaders for their public contribution to the state’s reputation, and economic and social development.

This year saw the 99th member inducted at a black-tie dinner event at the Brisbane Convention Centre and Exhibition Centre attended by more than 700 people.