Kinsman Limited has had 80 per cent growth in the past three years. It has been involved in a billion dollars worth of projects in its lifetime and is worth $73 million.
As Craig Watson sees it, volleyball and business are not too different from each other. ‘Volleyball is making sure if you’ve got twelve guys in the team, they walk in with the same tracksuits on, they line up their bags against the wall and they get down to business, same sort of thing in the corporate world.’ As General Manager of one of the fastest growing companies in Australia, it seems that when Watson gets down to business, he plays hard.
At only 37, the elite volleyball player and father of four has an innate sense of determination that is evident not only in his daunting list of qualifications but in his constant pushing of the boundaries, something that is mirrored in the company he manages, Kinsmen Limited.
You’ve come a long way baby.
From a boutique property development business based solely in Adelaide, to a national organisation comprising of a real estate management sector and a property funds management sector, Kinsmen Limited has come a long way since Watson joined in 1991. But then, so has the company’s General Manager. As he notes ‘we haven’t stood still for too long. And if we do, I won’t be here because that’s just not me.’