Creative accounting: an unexpected career path

Deloitte is one of the Big 4 accounting firms, home to the world's top number crunchers. But with a background in music, poetry and photography the career path of its Chief Marketing Officer owes more to arts than accounting.
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I’ve always written poetry – apart from my voracious appetite for novels as a child I read a lot of ee cummings, Alan Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, John Keats, Kenneth Slessor and James Joyce and loved to play around with blank verse, stream of consciousness narrative and forms ranging from sonnets to haikus. At one stage I inveigled my way onto a bill of poetry readings at the Art Gallery of NSW, which to me at the age of 20 seemed the height of mainstream acceptance, and showed me that even nihilism had a bourgeois audience.

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David Redhill
About the Author
David Redhill is Chief Marketing Officer and Partner at Deloitte Australia, and a self-described poet, painter and corporate bohemian. He was Australian Marketer of the Year in 2011.