Roger was educated in Sydney, where he graduated from UNSW Sydney with a Bachelor of Commerce.

In 2003, Corbett was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to the retail industry, particularly as a contributor to the development of industry policy and standards, and to the community.  In 2008, he was promoted to an officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to business, particularly through leadership and executive roles in the retail sector and a range of allied organisations, and to the community.

Roger is a director and non-executive chairman of Mayne Pharma Group Limited, an Australian specialist pharmaceutical company and chairman of Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group Limited (AHL Group).  He also serves on the salvation Army Advisory Board.  He was a former director of the Reserve Bank of Australia and a former chairman of Fairfax Media Limited (a major Australian newspaper, magazine and internet publisher), where he also served as chairman of the Nominations Committee and formerly served as chairman of the Audit Risk Committee.

For the past four decades, Mr Curton has been instrumental in creating large oil and gas projects that have included assembling, acquiring, developing, and selling in excess of 50,000 acres of oil and gas leases.
Included in these projects were producing properties and development prospects.  These projects were spread over a multi state geographical area including Louisiana, North Dekota, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.  Mr Curton begun his oil and gas career in 1976 as the owner of a private exploration and production company.  He was a pioneer in the exploration of the Cotton Valley Oak Hill oilfield in East Texas, a low-risk, technology-sensitive play covering several hundred square miles.  He has served as a director on the board of Amarillo-based EnergyNet.com, the world’s largest internet platform for oil and gas properties.

Mr Curton also enjoyed considerable success being a Coors beer distributor over 13 counties in East Texas. In 1974, he and his partner, Les Kroeger, were awarded this distributorship over 500 other applicants.  In 1985, he sold his interest to Mr Kroeger to focus on his oil and gas interests and other business endeavors including real estate, manufacturing and distribution.