If 2024 was a year of change and transition for Alberts, 2025 has reinforced the importance of the work we’re undertaking and our commitment to our overarching purpose: to pioneer a vibrant and sustainable future.
It also strengthened our ongoing ambition to back exceptional pioneers and pioneering ideas, and to achieve a positive impact across all parts of the business.
That momentum carried through to the year’s end, as Alberts marked 140 years in business on 25 November – celebrating our history with close partners, family and friends, including one of our longest-standing partnerships with AC/DC – with the night culminating in the rock-and-roll energy of their second Sydney show on the PWR/Up global tour.
Reflecting on some of our other highlights of 2025:
- We welcomed Gabrielle Trainor AO as AGS Chair in August. A respected leader in fields as diverse as infrastructure, sport, the arts, and Indigenous empowerment, Gabrielle’s portfolio includes director of Built Group Holdings, Pro-Chancellor of Western Sydney University, AFL Commissioner and director of WAM Global.
- We continued to grow our team, welcoming Tracey Duff to our Investment Committee; Kate Ephraums as Senior Financial Accountant; Judith Bowtell as Senior Manager – Advocacy & Strategy for Music Education: Right from the Start; and Gabriela Hernandez as Project & Operations Manager.
- Members of the Alberts team advocated for the issues that matter to us, presenting at numerous events, including two panels exploring the evolving roles of family offices and foundations at the Impact Investment Summit in March.
(From left) Tyson Fenay, Ingrid Albert, Charlotte Siddle, and Caroline Vu at the Impact Investment Summit in March.
- We commenced a philanthropy strategy review, ten years since the last, engaging both fifth and sixth-generation family members. In the interest of accountability and transparency, we also participated in our first Australian Philanthropic Benchmark survey, with heartening results and thoughtful areas for growth.
- The Tony Foundation continued its valuable grantee partnerships, including with Regen Studios, as Damon Gameau’s Future Council hit screens nationally in August and now moves into school screenings with an education campaign, and off-screen as a child-led movement empowering young people to shape a sustainable future.
- Alberts Impact Ventures transitioned from initial deployment to active stewardship of our 22 portfolio companies, backing our highest-conviction companies with follow-on capital — including Amber Electric, Bygen and Tixel — to support their next phase of growth.
- Music education came into sharp focus at the national and state level this year. NSW Arts Minister the Hon. John Graham MLC launched Music Education: Right from the Start’s Primary Teachers’ Survey on Music Education in NSW both NSW and Victoria held ministerially endorsed music education roundtables; and work began on NSW’s first 10-year music education plan — a government commitment following 2024’s Parliamentary Inquiry.
NSW Arts Minister, The Hon. John Graham, MLC, was given a warm welcome at Homebush West Public School in May.
- We strengthened our DEI commitments: our first Reconciliation Action Plan received conditional endorsement from Reconciliation Australia; Equity Clear, co-founded by Alberts, Scale and Giant Leap, launched a national Show Us the Data roundtable series to co-create Australia’s first common data standard for investor diversity reporting; Alberts joined 2X Global and attended their Summit in Manila to champion gender-smart capital in Australia.
- Alberts re-certified as a B Corp with an increased score from 82 to 113, reflecting our commitment to embedding equality, healthy minds, a sustainable environment and a vibrant culture across the business. We developed a Sustainable Supply Chain Policy, maintained our Climate Active carbon-neutral certification, and became a WORK180 endorsed employer.
2025 is a year we are immensely proud of, laying a strong foundation as we look ahead to the next decade of positive impact and our 150th anniversary. At the same time, we are deeply saddened by the tragic attack on 14 December, which coincided with the first day of Chanukah, and we stand in solidarity with the Jewish community and all those affected – reflecting on the importance of acceptance, inclusion, and togetherness as we enter a new year. Thank you to the Alberts team, our boards and committees, and everyone who has partnered with us with energy and optimism – we look forward to working together in 2026.
