Noel Whittaker’s voice and writing is known to millions of Australians through his regular appearances on ABC radio and Channel 9 and his weekly columns in major newspapers. No personal financial conundrum is too tricky for the former owner of one of Queensland’s biggest financial planning companies. Noel’s written 22 books that have sold more than two million copies in all, including Making Money Made Simple, which was recently named as one of the top 100 most influential books of the past century. He’s a Member of the Order of Australia, an independent director of ASX-listed VGI Global, a chartered tax adviser, a member of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s regional liaison committee and an executive in residence and adjunct professor with the faculty of business at the Queensland University of Technology.