Bane Hunter (born 28 August 1966) is an Australian businessman who was awarded Australia’s largest ever penalty for misleading corporate conduct for his company GetSwift. As former executive chairman of “market darling” GetSwift, which he co-founded with Joel Macdonald, Hunter was found guilty on 29 counts of misleading conduct in 2023, fined A$2M and banned from managing companies for 15 years - the largest penalty handed down by the Australian Federal Court Hunter was accused by the Federal Court of driving “a public relations-driven approach to corporate disclosure” which lead to the company raising $104 million from investors. In 2018 Hunter and his company were subject to a $300M class action lawsuit and was successfully sued by the corporate regulator ASIC. In awarding Hunter the largest ever penalty, Justice Lee stated Hunter “is a man who is presently wholly unsuited to be in a position of responsibility in a public company” and that he “was not only a bully, but also someone who had a laser-like focus on making money for himself and Mr Macdonald. If that involved breaking the law regulating financial markets, or exposing GetSwift to third party liability, that was of little concern to him”. Hunter currently sits on the advisory board of Australian listed company Tiny Beans. References Year of birth missing (living people)