Andrew Coorey
Corporate MC and specialist Q & A Facilitator
Andrew Coorey is a talented speaker and MC. An excellent judge of an audience and its attention span, he can control a room with precision. With an impressive ability to improvise away from a script, he has been referred to as the master of Q&A. Andrew is amusing and highly entertaining in any corporate environment.
About Andrew Coorey:
Andrew Coorey is an Economics Graduate who spent 10 years working in the city, mostly with Macquarie Bank, before studying broadcasting, working in radio, establishing some pub and corporate entertainment acts and becoming a professional speaker and MC.
In 18 months he went from having no radio experience to being a full time employee of the then number one talk station in Australia, Radio 2UE, where he gave on air reports, presented his own talk show and wrote on air content for John Laws over several years.
Andrew has spent over ten years as a professional speaker: he has spoken at corporate dinners in London, at corporate events in Hong Kong and at the Rugby World Cup in Europe in 2007. Andrew has also interviewed countless celebrities, mostly but not exclusively in sport, including Dennis Lillee, Sir Ian Botham, four Rugby World Cup winning captains (Kirk, Farr Jones, Pienaar, Eales) four Australian cricket captains ( Border, Chappell, Chappell, Taylor), Tyrrell family winemakers, Luke Mangan, the CEOs of Cricket, Rugby, League, Soccer and AFL (broadcast live), several Wallaby coaches and countless others. On live television he interviewed a panel of Australia’s top sports administrators on the business of sport.
Andrew is the inventor of Live Band Karaoke, a hands on corporate rock show. He has made one documentary film, “The Birthplace: Stories from Australia’s First Rugby Club” which screened on the Foxtel History Channel and he has published book reviews and poetry. Andrew Coorey serves on several committees in an honorary capacity.
Andrew Coorey’s regular clients include Credit-Suisse, Macquarie Bank, SCG, Luna Park, Sydney University, Tattersall’s Club, Canary Events Mining Forum.