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Mark Whittaker

New South Wales
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How two cancer survivors turned a spice into a $10 million supplements business

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By Mark Whittaker
| Forbes Australia Verified
Published on July 13, 2026 Kurk Founders Trent Scanlen and Harrison Weisinger. Trent Scanlen and Dr Harry Weisinger have vowed to party on Ibiza for Trent’s 100th birthday in October 2076. It’s what you’d expect the founders of a supplements company to say. But should they get there, it would be all the more remarkable for both having survived non-Hodgkin lymphoma in their 30s.
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This former elite swimmer built a $300 million property empire in six years

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By Mark Whittaker
| Forbes Australia Verified
Published on June 28, 2026 Glenn Piper, founder and CEO of Epochal, at the group’s Merewether Hotel, Newcastle. Glenn Piper’s first investment kitty came courtesy of Swimming Australia. The 17-year-old backstroker had broken national age-group records and the $10,000 was meant to support his training.
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Carla, Allegra and me: Bianca Spender on fashion, family, and finding space

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By Mark Whittaker
| Forbes Australia Verified
Published on June 24, 2026 This story features in Issue 23 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy. Bianca Spender When Allegra and Bianca Spender shared a bedroom growing up, the extrovert, perfectionist Bianca felt the need to put masking tape down the middle of the room to protect her side, and especially her clothes, from the chaos of her quieter, more contemplative little sister. “I was messy, and she was tidy, and it was exhausting,” recalls Allegra.
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