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Aequum Managing Director
The Big Picture …'“Aequum will develop with the client a political action plan to achieve major, long-term term objectives and will deploy its resources to assist the client in carrying through the plan.” … or the small“Alternatively, Aequum will help you to move that important letter or submission from off the bottom of the bureaucratic in-tray up to the top.” Aequum Political and Business Strategies
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About the Director GARY SCARRABELOTTI, MA,
BA (Hons), Dip. Ed Director Gary
Scarrabelotti is the founder of the Canberra-based business and political
consultancy firm Aequum Pty Ltd. In his
capacity as Managing Director of Aequum and Director of its
SCARRABELOTTI employee ownership consulting division, Gary combines roles
as a political adviser and advocate on business issues with consultancy
work on the design and implementation of Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs). Political
& Business consulting Gary has
long experience of lobbying and negotiating with the major political
parties, in particular over employee share ownership and other
remuneration and savings-related issues.
He played a key role in negotiating the terms of current employee
share plan legislation (Division 13A of the Income Tax Assessment Act)
and contributed significantly to making employee share plan legislation
more attractive and flexible for Australian employers.
He played a major part in helping to defeat the Keating
Government’s proposal to subject share plans to Fringe Benefits Tax. Gary also
served as Executive Consultant to the Australian Employee Ownership
Association (AEOA) during the period March 1995 to March 2002. In this
capacity Gary was heavily engaged in high-level consultations with both the
present Howard Government and the Federal Labor Opposition over the future
of share plan policy and legislation. Through the
agency of Aequum, Gary is currently representing number of business
clients in Canberra including a group of major Australian corporations,
legal and accounting firms, with major interests in the field of employee
ownership. Employee
Ownership consulting Over years Gary has helped
many companies along the road to full-blown employee share ownership.
These have included:
Gary has also been responsible for providing extensive share plan and remuneration-related advice to companies as diverse as Rio Tinto, Capital Finance, and Tassal. As a student
of the history and philosophy of employee ownership, Gary also provides
training and advice for employees, management and union officials in the
nature of employee ownership and its implications for, and applications
to, workplace management and enterprise government. Previous
experience Prior to establishing Aequum in 1995 Gary worked · As Personal Assistant to the Joint National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, with responsibility for the AWU’s employee ownership project (1994-1995); · As a public servant in the Federal Department of Industry Technology and Commerce - focusing on international science and technology collaboration - and as a research officer in the Department of the Senate (1998-1994); · As a parliamentary political adviser and research officer specialising in international relations and defence issues (1985-1998); and · As a journalist (1980-85). Education Gary studied history, philosophy, and languages at the University of New England and the Australian National University.
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