David Anderson from Big Red Group | Checkout #329

With a background in management consulting, David went on to build a large-scale global retail network, before founding Big Red Group in 2017 with the vision to create a multi-brand experience marketplace. Starting with the acquisition of RedBalloon, Big Red Group has since acquired adventure brand Adrenaline, domestic holiday experience provider, Experience Oz to become the largest experience marketplace across Australia and New Zealand. David has held the role of Group CEO since the business’s inception, surrounded and supported by an exceptional senior leadership team, and high calibre talent at all levels of the business. Fast forward to today, David has his finger on the pulse of the tourism and experience economy, and still has a passion for memorable experiences over material things.

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Big Red Group CEO, David Anderson. If you don’t know it, David and the Big Red Group is the largest experience marketplace in Australia and partners with over 3,000 experience providers across Australia through their brands Red Balloon, Adrenaline and Experience Oz. They’ve facilitated over 5 billion experiences since 2017.

Can you recommend a book or a podcast that our listeners should immediately get into?

Through the transformation work we’ve been doing recently and given the level of invention that we’re having to take on, I thought of Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal.