About Me - My Biography

Monique Conheady is a co-founder of Hertz and was the company's CEO.Flexicar was sold to Hertz Australia on 1 December, 2010, so Monique is now General Manager of Flexicar.Prior to establishing Flexicar, Monique was an Assistant Director with the Federal Government's Department of Health and Ageing.Graduating with honours from the University of Melbourne in Engineering and Arts, she has also worked as a project manager for the global engineering consulting firm Ove Arup & Partners in Melbourne, London, New York and Cairo, and was involved in the development of an ebusiness venture for UK retailer, Sainsbury's.She is a Committee Member of the Moreland Energy Foundation Limited, a Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership and an Associate of Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.In 2009 Monique was selected as for a Churchill Fellowship, which she is undertaking in 2011. She was also awarded the 2009 Victorian Winner of the Hudson Private & Corporate Sector Award in the Telstra Business Women's Awards.Monique is passionate about new ways of doing business that are financially, socially and environmentally sustainable, and she aspires to be a serial "eco-preneur.