b'KENNARDS HIRE Since 1948TAKING HIRE HIGHER | 104more efficient and environmentally friendly industrialKirsty is now joined by Lisa Cotton as chair and Benita operations using real-time data.Kevorkian as manager of the Kennard Foundation.In his free time, Angus enjoys rally driving and skiing.Kirsty is married to Andrew and they have four children He is married to Angela and has four childrenZachary, Daniel, Amelie, Charlie and Ruby.Ashley, Chloe and Xanthe.RORY KENNARDKIRSTY KOVACS As a middle child, I always wanted to be independent, Driven by a passion for protecting the environmentdo my own thing, Rory Kennard says. Of all the third and with qualifications in environmental management,generation, Rory is most like his grandfather Walter second-born Kirsty founded the business Healthy Habitatin his ability to conceive and invent. Rory says he gets in 2002. As an early forerunner in the e-commerceannoyed at inefficiencies and is always looking for ways marketplace, Healthy Habitat sold environmentallyto make things work better, faster or easier. Growing friendly products for the home, including cleaning andup, he says, I liked tools, I liked practical things, so it baby care products. The business was sold in 2006 towas always fun walking around the branches and seeing pursue family commitments. all the equipment. Kirsty has a keen interest in marketing and web design,As a teen, Rory did odd jobs here and there for different and she assisted Kennards Hire with its online userbranches, but he never made the move to work in experience and website, but other than that, her rolethe family business. Though he earned his mechanical with the company had been restricted to a ten-year stintengineering degree from UNSW, he says, learning by as family representative on the board. book has never been a strength of mine. Im much more about learning by doing. Degree in hand, he indulged his However, Kirsty found her true calling in establishing passion for industrial design. He founded Kennovations, the Kennards Hire Foundation. Here, her responsibilitiesan industrial design and product engineering company were two-fold. In addition to overseeing thethat provides product design and development solutions philanthropic activities of Kennards Hire, she alsoto the construction, industrial, consumer and technology managed the charitable giving of the Kennard familymarkets, including to Kennards Hire. itself. My parents had been giving back for the past three decades, Kirsty recalls. Establishing theKennovations sold in 2012, allowing Rory to focus on foundation helped focus and organise their donations. Makinex, the construction equipment company he founded with Paul Weaver in 2004 (formerly known Angus came in with a particular focus on building the Kennards Hire culture and bringing data analytics intothe company.'