Before settling down, he used his inherited wealth to travel around the world. The 71-year-old has racked up 18 million miles travelling the world advising everyone from the World Economic Forum in Davos to the CIA in Virginia (his father Horace, who died in 1981, was a pioneering aviator turned PanAm executive and a close friend of fellow aviation adventurer Charles Lindbergh, would probably have approved of the frequent-flyer points).īrock has been to Australia on 63 occasions advising everyone from the Baillieu and Myer families to Rod Carnegie of McKinsey fame and Tim Sims, founder of Pacific Equity Partners.īrock was born into a well-to-do WASP family on the east coast of the US, where he grew up with his brother John (who died from COVID-19 last year) and sister Hope, who is a lawyer.
Let me tell you the bottom line, whenever you meet someone who thinks he deserves success, you know you met an asshole.’ And from then on, he became a client.” “And Kerry said to me, ‘That sounds like the kind of crap you would write about.
Chapter eight of my PhD thesis at Princeton was called a mathematical analysis of the role of luck in life.’ “I said, ‘Luck in life is very important. US economist Woody Brock has been to Australia 63 times. When the two met in 2003, the precocious Brock, who earned his five degrees by the age of 29, told Packer what he thought about luck. Polymath economist Dr Horace “Woody” Brock is probably the only high-society Harvard and Princeton intellect that the late media baron Kerry Packer ever had time for.
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