John Gannon

Mr. John Gannon joined the Matthew Flinders Anglican College Board in 2019. He qualified as a lawyer in Melbourne in 1989 and soon after moved to London, and later Bristol, where he practiced Insurance Litigation until 1989. In late 2000, with a colleague, he established an insurance brokerage firm, which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2008 on its AIM market. John held a number of positions during that time, including Group MD and later Commercial Director in Brightside Group PLC until May 2013. Brightside Group had over 1200 employees in four United Kingdom offices, as well as a related Gibraltar office in Europe and one in Brisbane. At the same time, John set up a personal injury law firm in Cardiff, Wales in 2003 where he was a Senior Partner until 2013. When the law firm was sold in 2014, it had over 350 employees working across four offices, including Cardiff, Bristol, Basingstoke, and Glasgow.

John moved to the Sunshine Coast in 2014 and is currently involved in a number of charities as well as some non-executive roles both in Australia and the UK.