Glen Boreham was a high-flying plug-and-play international IBM executive when ALP Arts Minister Peter Garrett asked him to chair the newly minted Screen Australia. He had worked in Britain and Japan, and the company expected Sydney to be just another station on its multinational railway line.
Now, after announcing his resignation, he explained that he had arrived at the first board meeting of a new organisation with this as just one of his responsibilities. And then, he too fell under the media spell, and realises “I’ve given six years of my life to setting up Screen Australia and getting it going.“ He has thought this moment through very carefully.
