The rising stars of power in South Australia's talent pool Mandala Developments managing director David Lee. THERE is no shortage of talent in South Australia, as men and women across all industries strive to make their mark on the state. In the continuing Power List series, the Sunday Mail features 25 of our state's rising stars. CAMERON Goodall, 34, actor and theatre creator As a founding member and now co-artistic director of The Border Project, Goodall has helped shape some of Adelaide's most adventurous, technologically ground-breaking productions, including the interactive 2012 Adelaide Festival hit I Am Not An Animal. The ensemble of former Flinders University drama students - including partner Katherine Fyffe - also has worked with Belgian company Ontroerend Goed to create works here, in Sydney and Europe, while Goodall - now back in Adelaide after three years based with Sydney Theatre Company - has firmly established himself as a leading man in State Theatre productions such as Hamlet and Hedda Gabler. A former member of ARIA award-winning band The Audreys, Goodall also is a composer and appearing at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival this weekend as part of sea shanty show You, Me & the Bloody Sea. Callum Hann, 23, celebrity cook Ida Wong-Taylor - manager of Westpac's Gouger St branch. Picture: Brenton Edwards He was pipped at the post for MasterChef glory in 2010 but Adelaide's Callum Hann hasn't let that hold him back. Since appearing on the cooking series - when it used to pull seriously big audience numbers - Hann has created cooking classes and education business Sprout (in partnership with his dietitian friend, Themis Chryssidis), has published a cookbook, runs a blog and is an Australian ambassador for the most famous celebrity chef in the world, Jamie Oliver. Luke Schapel, 32, menswear store owner Where do Adelaide's elite go to get scrubbed up nicely for a big event? To Luke Schapel at Ivy League, of course. With a client stable featuring several Crows players and prominent Adelaide businessmen, Schapel's flagship stores - in Twin St, city, and The Parade, Norwood - are fast becoming celebrity spotting meccas. Having worked his way up through the retail clothing business this 32 year old is not only a sartorial force to be reckoned with, he's closely associated with Variety the Children's Charity, using his rising profile for good. Michael Beveridge, 27, radio announcer The reality-TV machine that is Big Brother has churned out its fair share of wannabes and now, has-beens. Joshua Baker, Crispian Fielke and Dana Whyte, partners in The Clever Little Tailor bar. Picture: Dean Martin But Michael Beveridge looks set to enter the rarefied realm - which can list Ryan "Fitzy" Fitzgerald and Chrissie Swan as its chief members - where a thriving post-Big Brother media career beckons. Previously a Brisbane-based advertising copywriter, Beveridge is now a regular among Adelaide's social set as one third of SAFM's brekkie team. Expect even bigger things from him and his unique hair-do in the near future. Glenn Docherty, 29, City of Playford mayor Glenn Docherty was the state's youngest-ever mayor when elected to lead the Playford council in 2010, aged 26. Now 29, he has been chosen as the Liberal Party's candidate to contest the marginal seat of Newland at the state election in March. Melanie Flintoft, 40, clothing business creative director Together with husband Dean Flintoft, Melanie has gone from owning a few small retail boutiques in Adelaide to overseeing the operation of her clothing design business that will see a projected $40 million turnover in the next financial year. Vote now: Who do you think are the powerful rising stars of South Australia? The clothing brands under the Australian Fashion Labels banner include Cameo, Finders Keepers, Keepsake and the forthcoming Jagger. As well, her burgeoning online store, the Fashion Bunker, keeps more than 30 employees busy in their Currie St, city, digs. Stuart Duckworth, 24, bar owner Together with business partner Tom Skipper, Duckworth created the city's hottest outdoor bar, Little Miss Mexico, during the Adelaide Fringe. The pair is teaming up for another pop-up bar in Frome St, city, next month. Called Little Miss Miami, it will have a beach vibe, an eclectic drinks list and Cuban-American street eats. The young entrepreneur was the general manager at Electric Circus music venue for six years and started a number of club nights and events. He left last year to concentrate on his law and commerce studies and is also now the general manager of Stereosonic music festival which he helped establish in Adelaide in 2008. In between all this, Duckworth has established a handmade furniture business, East End Studios, with carpenter and joiner Sam Weckert. Rebekah Richardson, 42, winemaker If ever a wine brand has marketed Australia with pride and joy to the rest of the world, Jacob's Creek is it. As the energetic sparkling and white wine maker for the company behind the Jacob's Creek's labels, Richardson has brought one masters degree and another on the way plus seven years' experience in the US to the Barossa based winery where she has forged a respected reputation as one of Orlando's key creative leaders. She travels extensively to introduce and reinforce the Jacob's Creek brand and brings to it a unique energy reflected in her personal adventures in rock climbing, surfing, skiing and motorcycle riding. James Stevens, 30, political adviser A former staffer for federal Coalition MP Christopher Pyne, Stevens is now chief of staff for Opposition Leader Stephen Marshall. He is the hidden hand behind Mr Marshall's push to become Premier and relied on by federal Liberals to help shape the ground game as they push to take seats from Labor at the national election set down for September 14. Stevens is viewed by many in the party as a likely future MP. Lily Jacobs, 31, property renewal expert At 16, the Norwood Morialta High School student was emphatic about all Australians having the democratic right to be the Head of State. Today the former lawyer is revitalising Adelaide's empty shop fronts as general manager of not-for-profit urban renewal group Renew Adelaide, which facilitates low or no-rent leases for start-up businesses. Renew Adelaide under her leadership has also campaigned for planning, property and liquor licensing law reforms. An architecture student, Jacobs has had a long interest in creative renewal of urban spaces and is a significant voice for politicians and policymakers. Simon Birmingham, 39, Liberal senator Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says Simon Birmingham has done "as much as anyone to save the Murray Darling." Birmingham is the Liberals' parliamentary secretary for the Murray-Darling Basin and for the environment, and a likely future federal minister. He came to politics from the wine and hotel industries. Ida Wong-Taylor, 36, bank manager Reading through Wong-Taylor's list of extra-curricular activities is enough to make the average parson exhausted. As well as managing Westpac's Gouger St, city, branch and raising two young boys with husband Toby, she is involved in a plethora of community organisations. Wong-Taylor was on the organising committee of the inaugural Chinatown Chinese New year street party this year, is chair of Food For Thought SA, and is treasurer of both the Gouger and Grote Street traders' associations. Like parents Francis and Susie, she is also a regular at both society and business events around town and is the consummate networker. Johann Henschke, 29, winemaker As a sixth-generation Henschke and eldest son of celebrated Eden Valley winemakers Stephen and Prue, Johann has known wine since birth, growing up with his younger sister Justine and brother Andreas at the family's estate at Keyneton. After several years of winemaking studies here and in France, Spain, and Germany, as well as experience at Leeuwin Estate in Margaret River, Felton Road in Central Otago, Isole e Olena in Tuscany, and Arietta in the Napa Valley, he recently returned to join his family business, quickly focusing his attention on their cool and steep-sloped Adelaide Hills vineyard at Lenswood. Dr Charlie Huveneers, 32, scientist This mover and shaker in the world of sharks has been a finalist in the South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, has won the Flinders University vice-chancellor early-career research award and was part of the SARDI Aquatic Sciences Threatened, Endangered and Protected Species team that won the Unsung Hero of South Australian Science 2009 Award. His world-leading research has seen him travel all over the world to study basking sharks, white sharks, carcharhinus sharks, grey nurse sharks, lemon sharks and leopard sharks. Dr Huveneers, who has a PhD in Environmental Science, is now working as a research scientist/shark ecologist at SARDI Aquatic Sciences and a lecturer within Flinders University. Houssam Abiad, 36, businessman/Adelaide City Council member Entrepreneur Houssam Abiad is involved with myriad businesses, including Digimob Australia, Felici Espresso and marketing firm MuscleGroup. Elected to the Adelaide City Council in 2010, Mr Abiad is also an executive board member of the Rundle Mall Management Authority and chairman of the Adelaide City Finance and Corporate Governance Committee. Born in Adelaide, he spent most of his childhood in Lebanon. Upon his family's return to Adelaide, he completed Year 12 at Norwood Morialta High School. He has a biomedical engineering degree, with honours, from Flinders University, and is completing a double masters degree in business and international business at UniSA. Daniel Wills, 28, State Political Editor, The Advertiser Like many aspiring Adelaide journalists, Wills got his start at the University of Adelaide's student paper, On Dit. He was studying science and arts at the time. After working on interstate papers - including covering the 2007 federal election for the Central Queensland News - he moved to The Advertiser, where he has been covering politics since 2009. Lachlan Clyne, 30, City of Unley mayor Clyne is a youth prodigy, who went to the Global Young Leaders Congress in New York at the age of 15. The son of former police officers, he is a church-going, fundraising, ex-member of the Young Liberals and a graduate from Duntroon. At 27, he was elected mayor, making him the youngest ever elected to that position. John Gardner, 34, Liberal MP Gardner left a job with federal Liberal MP and party powerbroker Christopher Pyne to run for the state Liberal party in the seat of Morialta. The now 34-year-old was among a group of fresh faces elected in March 2010 and also serves as Opposition Whip and chairman of the Opposition's Question Time tactics committee. The former Young Liberals president worked as a policy adviser with Bragg MP and state deputy leader Vickie Chapman. Nicole Graham, 32, SCOSA chief executive The youngest person to take the CEO role at the Spastic Centres of South Australia, Ms Graham began her career in human resources at Mitsubishi. In 2004, she joined SCOSA as general manager of workforce planning and development, before rising through the ranks to become CEO in March, 2010. Graham has a Bachelor of Business Administration from UniSA and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Adelaide. She is board president of the YWCA Adelaide. Walter Ventura, restaurant entrepreneur If you like to eat out, whether it's something quick with the family or a more serious restaurant meal, chances are you've been to a Ventura venue. Ventura has a finger in many pies, with part-ownership of chains including Kwik Stix and Charminar, as well as Spanish specialist Mesa Lunga, Singapore House and Osteria Mesa. Perhaps his greatest achievement, however, has been converting North Adelaide fine diner The Manse into the wildly popular Ruby Red Flamingo. Marcus Bailey, 33, and Tennyson Wickham, 32, corporate advisory experts After working together in mergers and acquisitions, Bailey and Wickham joined forces to start independent corporate finance advisory firm Fortis Ago in 2011. Bailey is a chartered accountant and has a commerce degree from the University of Adelaide, while Wickham has qualifications in engineering and finance. Fortis Ago works with clients in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region and executes multimillion-dollar deals. David Lee, 37, property developer Born in China, Lee came to Adelaide with his parents in the late 1980s to study at Adelaide High School. Having completed a commerce and law degree at the University of Adelaide, he worked at Norman Waterhouse before setting up his own law firm which he expanded into China. Moving back to his home country, he Lee worked in several businesses and became involved in property development. Lee is now back in Adelaide as managing director of Mandala Developments - the company behind the $51 million Rowlands Apartments on Grote St, city. Geordie Brookman, 32, artistic director Appointed last year at the age of 31, Geordie Brookman is the youngest artistic director of the State Theatre Company in its entire 48-year history. Halfway through his first season with the company, Brookman has already made his mark as an innovative and creative thinker, with big plans to put SA theatre on the national stage through increased collaborations. The Flinders University drama graduate was the driving force behind the Adelaide Festival's popular Barrio club when it debuted in 2012, and has directed work around Australia, the UK and Asia. Josh Baker, owner Coffee Branch cafe COFFEE guru Josh Baker adds a caffeine buzz and sense of community to Leigh St at his popular Coffee Branch cafe, which has just celebrated its third anniversary. The fabulous Baker boy grew up surrounded by coffee, with his father Anthony running Combi Coffee van. Josh, a keen cyclist, earned his hospitality stripes working at restaurants around town such as Boltz, Rococo, Pranzo and Rigoni's. The business-minded barista became a pioneer of Adelaide's specialty coffee scene when he opened Coffee Branch, which is the undisputed hub of the Leigh St precinct, in the CBD. Josh, who has described Coffee Branch as "a bar without the booze," has been a key player in the push for more small-bar licences and is co-owner (with Crispian Fielke and Dana Whyte) of Clever Little Tailor, in neighbouring Peel St. Support from the State Government and Adelaide City Council by saying `yes' to new projects when it comes to liquor licences and building development has definitely helped the hospitality industry. There have been some big steps made," he says. Never one to sit on his laurels, Josh has plans to open another coffee shop, perhaps in the Hutt St precinct where he lives. Another small bar is definitely on the cards, too. Josh, an energetic and likable bloke, says he wants to see Adelaide's cultural scene thrive and grow. "Adelaide is a great place to be, there's a really good vibe here at the moment so I'm always saying to people `don't go to Melbourne, we've got it all here'," he said. Kylie Fleming Monique Bowley, entrepreneur MONIQUE Bowley's resume reads like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. The 30-year-old former Women's National League Basketball player with Adelaide Lightning won an entrepreneurs contest at Adelaide University after she entered to find out what the word "entrepreneur" meant. The radio producer and writer formed a formidable duo with Amanda Blair for six years on FIVEaa. It was there that she compiled one of the most comprehensive contact books in Adelaide and now counts high-flying business people, members of the media and politicians as personal friends. Leaving the station when Blair announced her departure, Monique produced Peter Goers' show on 891 ABC for a brief stint before her own ventures called. She created "The little van that could," a vintage food van selling her homemade lemonade, which she still runs. In her charitable streak, she co-developed Australia's first charity op-shop bus, Dulcie's Shop of Real Opportunity. So far the bus has raised tens of thousands of dollars for homeless people in Adelaide. She's soon to star as Adelaide's "Miss Sporty Baker" on Channel 9's Great Australian Bake Off and is already attracting the attention of television heavyweights. Matt Gilbertson The Rising Stars Power List was compiled by State Political Editor Daniel Wills, Chief Business Reporter Cameron England, Political Editor Tory Shepherd and Entertainment Editor Jessica Leo