Michael Murphy (diver)
Michael Andrew Murphy is a former Olympic diver for Australia. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Murphy competed twice at the Olympic Games, placing 4th in the 3 metre springboard event at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
Murphy also represented Australia twice at the Commonwealth Games, winning two gold medals and one silver medal at the 1994 Games in Victoria. After retiring from competitive diving, Murphy served as both a Board Member and National Team Selector for Diving Australia. In recognition of his contribution to the sporting community, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.
Murphy completed his undergraduate studies at Bond University, where he gained a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours. He was winner of both the Sir Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship to Harvard, and the Macquarie Bank Graduate Management Scholarship. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He is currently a Managing Director with Bain Capital, and was previously a management consultant with Bain & Company.
