Carey Cox was, until recently, the Victorian Manager of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) where he spent almost eight years working with leading Australian business figures. Much of the work involved the mentoring of directors and executives, which explains how Carey became more formally committed to the mentor’s role.

His earlier career was spent with the Nicholas Kiwi organisation where he worked as an executive, general manager and director in Africa (Nigeria, Zambia), the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Caribbean and the USA where he spent seven years as CEO of Nicholas Laboratories Inc. Carey Cox was guest lecturer in International Marketing in the MBA program at the Graduate School of Business of New York University for five years from 1990 to 1994.