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Meet the team

Our leadership team has decades of top tier consulting experience across best practice, assurance, digital transformation, business cases, portfolio and the program and project management and offices spectrum, providing strategic consulting services to vast array of organisations. Our best practice, consulting and assurance team provides our clients with unmatched insights and experience into strategically critical initiatives and transformations across the Commonwealth, state and local governments, private sector, start-up and not-for-profit organisations.

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Major programs and projects delivered

3655

Combined assurance reviews delivered

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Specialist senior consultants

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Key sectors of experience

Our Leadership team

Our leadership team guides and supports our consultants, whilst engaging directly, in a strategic manner, with a number of Australia’s highest profile portfolios, government ministers, public sector executives, governing boards and business owners.

Mark Porter

FOUNDER & CEO

Mark has a long and successful career as a senior executive consultant across a number of Australia's highest profile projects and programs, for both the private and public sectors. Mark provides executive business, portfolio, program and project consulting to a number of leading public and private sector organisations, working with business critical and highly-visible programs, while providing assurance and strategic services. Mark is a founder and and director of a global elearning best practice company, has held executive advisory and board member positions for IP Australia and the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Trust, in addition to being an executive board member to a successful startup incubator.

Assurance Specialist, Best Practice Specialist, Government Specialist, P3M3® Assessor, Strategic Consultant,

Brad Greene

CONSULTING PARTNER

Brad is a highly experienced and senior business and digital strategist, program and project management delivery professional and assurance specialist, providing senior consultancy services to government, private sector and not-for-profit organisations in both Australia and internationally. Brad has extensive experience in the business improvement and business transformation fields, with a specialisation across human resource information systems (HRIS), human capital management (HCM) information and payroll systems, SAP/ Oracle/ Technology1 ERP upgrades and FMIS integrations, CRM systems, digital implementation and transformational initiatives, agile project leadership and assurance partnering/ advisory.

Assurance Advisor, Assurance Specialist, Gateway Assurance, SAP Specialist, SAP/ERP Assurance Specialist, Strategic Consultant,

John Trabinger

BUSINESS & DIGITAL ASSURANCE ADVISOR

John has over 30-years of experience as a senior executive in programme delivery, policy, assurance models and methods and program management, including being the former Head of the Australian Commonwealth Government’s Gateway Review Unit. John has been an expert-level Gateway Review reviewer and evaluator since 2006, providing essential assurance across numerous digital transformation and infrastructure programs and projects, for Commonwealth and state governments across Australia and New Zealand. John has led several high-profile Australian Commonwealth Government delivery programs, from their inception through to their completion. John current sits on numerous company boards and is a strategic advisor to Australian governments and multinational technology organisations, and is a co-founder of a best practice elearning company.

Assurance Advisor, Assurance Specialist, Government Specialist, SAP Specialist, SAP/ERP Assurance Specialist, Strategic Consultant,

OUR TEAMS ACCREDITATIONS

OUR CONSULTING TEAM

Our team is passionate and dedicated to ensuring delivery success, which is supported by a minimum of 27-years experience across best practice, consulting and assurance supporting services for clients across a multitude of industries across the public and private sectors.

Diana Baxter

ASSURANCE REVIEWER & ADVISOR

Diana is a highly experienced program and project assurance consultant, specialising in undertaking project-based assignments in the areas of strategic planning, change management, ICT, gated reviews, health checks and senior executive level assurance. Diana has delivered over 220 governance, risk, change impact, Gateway and health check assurance reviews, to organisations which include government departments and agencies, local councils and NGO's, across organisational change, risk, technology, infrastructure, health, transport, education, mining, environment, shared services, communications, rail, justice, police, legal, corrective services and machinery of government.

Assurance Advisor, Assurance Specialist, Gateway Assurance, Government Specialist,

Peter Rowe

ASSURANCE REVIEWER

One of Australia's most experienced senior executive managers and business leaders and assurance professionals, with extensive experience in the successful delivery and assurance of large scale, complex digital programs encompassing organisational redesign, process re-engineering, business and technology integration, shared services and outsourcing. Peter has a well-seasoned ability to establish, influence and maintain effective relationships with partners and stakeholders at all levels of an organisation, and is called upon to provide appropriate strategic and operational responses to key issues affecting business performance. A former executive manager of Suncorp for 13 years, Peter is a highly experienced business program and assurance delivery professional.

Agile Assurance, Assurance Advisor, Assurance Specialist, Gateway Assurance,

David Williams

ASSURANCE REVIEWER

David has delivered over 150 assurance reviews to a variety of governments and organisations, and has extensive experience and a long career in program, project, portfolio, PMO and P3M3® delivery, working across Australia and internationally, specialising in consulting, designing, managing and delivering enterprise and local PMO's, transformation programs, systems rollouts, integrations, upgrades, maturity assessments and migrations and transitions with a digital focus. David continues to work with local, state and national governments, financial and insurance organisations.

Agile Assurance, Gateway Assurance, P3M3® Assessor, PRINCE2® Specialist,

Frank Aldred

ASSURANCE REVIEWER

Frank has over 25-years’ experience in consultancy, managing delivery of quality assurance and project management solutions, for a myriad of organisations and public sector entities. Frank’s superior project and program management expertise has been utilised across a range of industries, including establishing managed services, assurance, consulting services and development of training programs, strategic and tactical business planning operations and enterprise portfolio management offices. In 2018, Frank was awarded AIPM Fellow status, for his tireless works to the Australian Institute of Project Management and for his dedication to improving the competency of project managers through assurance, coaching and mentoring.

Assurance Advisor, Assurance Specialist, Gateway Assurance, Government Specialist,

Rob Howe

ASSURANCE REVIEWER

Globally recognised as one of Australia's most experienced senior executives and consulting professionals, with experience in assurance across complex project delivery, HR, procurement, contract management, outsourcing, negotiation and financial management. As the former Executive General Manager of the Suncorp Banking Group for 18-years, Rob is deeply experienced in project remediation, program and project assurance. Rob has had extensive experience at executive level with vendor management, company board interactions, and relationship management with regulators including APRA and ASIC.

Assurance Advisor, Gateway Assurance, Strategic Consultant,

Marianne Garden

ASSURANCE REVIEWER

Marianne has over 25 years of experience in national, state and international roles, including as an ICT project management specialist, holding a Master of Project Management degree. Marianne's industry leading knowledge across information technology project delivery and assurance, is underpinned by her vast experience in all aspects of the delivery life cycles and best practise frameworks that include PMBoK, PRINCE2, MSP, Gateway and Agile assurance. A strategic thinker who understands high risk, mission critical and complex organisational structures, Marianne is able to develop productive relationships and inspires a sense of purpose and direction. Marianne's recent focus has been on governance and assurance in the Queensland Government, across public safety, fire and emergency services, ambulance and police.

Agile Assurance, Assurance Specialist, Gateway Assurance, Government Specialist,

Alan Bradbury

STRATEGIC CONSULTANT & SAP SPECIALIST

Since 2014, Alan continues to be recognised as world-leading authority on SAP products, and their successful implementations, and assisting governments to optimise their information technology assets and investments. Alan has an in-depth and unmatched experience in many aspects of business development, program delivery and consulting, allowing him to work at any level in addressing complex and challenging problems and situations for governments and large scale public sector organisations. Alan has a highly developed business acumen, and proven ability to work with business owners and executives, to develop workable strategies and to set targets with realistic achievement plans. Over the past 8-years, Alan has worked in senior roles within SAP, including the provision of delivery assurance, establishment of the ANZ SAP Centre of Excellence, delivering/ establishing the SAP Critical Data Cloud for ANZ and the SAP Industry Principal for the ANZ public sector and defence.

Government Specialist, P3M3® Assessor, Portfolio Specialist, SAP Specialist, SAP/ERP Assurance Specialist, Strategic Consultant,

Richard Greenall

CONSULTANT & ASSURANCE REVIEWER

Richard is an experienced consultant and assurance reviewer with a 25-year background in management consulting and project delivery having led a number of strategic projects, many with multi-million-dollar budgets as a portfolio manager and project director and manager. Richard continues to deliver both strategic and tactical outcomes taking delivery, technical, advisory, and mentoring type project roles, consulting to over 40 organisations over as well as leading whole-of-government initiatives and Tier 1 assurance reviews. In addition to being one of our senior assurance consultants, Richard is a portfolio management framework and maturity roadmap specialist consultant, providing services to a number of Australia’s largest government and private sector organisations.

Agile Assurance, Agile Specialist, Gateway Assurance, P3M3® Assessor, P3O® Specialist,

Andrew Harris

ASSURANCE REVIEWER (INFRASTRUCTURE)

Andrew is an executive business and assurance consultant, with 20 years’ experience in the public sector and 11-years as a government leader with expertise across risk, assurance and governance, public sector asset planning and investment, transactions and procurement and project direction and management. Andrew has a deep understanding of the public sector and the processes and practices that underpin government decision-making, procurement and operations. Andrew has the ability to assist clients to achieve outcomes, which are evidence based, accountable and practical. He works for clients on a trust and confidence basis and can act as a strategic advisor on complex or sensitive matters that demand attention to detail and care. Andrew has developed perspectives and approaches that combine to balance between accountability, process and transparency and an ability to move to effective and pragmatic solutions.

Assurance Advisor, Assurance Specialist, Gateway Assurance, Infrastructure Assurance,

David Preller

CONSULTANT & P3M3 ASSESSOR

David is an infrastructure projects, programme and portfolio specialist, with a distinguished career of over 35 years in complex programme and project delivery. David is focused on providing tangible value-for-money project outcomes in terms of strategic, commercial, technical and corporate social responsibility. David continues to advise and lead critical initiatives to develop appropriate strategies, systems and processes to ensure successful corporate outcomes. David is a 3P maturity (P3M3®) assessor who is passionate in assisting organisations to improve their project, programme and portfolio management maturity.

Gateway Assurance, Infrastructure Assurance, P3M3® Assessor, Portfolio Specialist,

Dr Parbodh Gogna 'Gog'

ASSURANCE REVIEW & STRATEGIC HEALTH SPECIALIST

A vastly experienced Chief Medical Officer and high experienced senior corporate executive, medical executive and clinical governance leader across public, private, defence and government sectors. Highly skilled in the specialist areas of criminal intelligence, negotiation, budgeting, management, defense operations. Certified and highly experienced Gateway Assurance reviewer across an extensive range of government departments and agencies, with a specialised assurance focus on public health, hospitals and health services, pandemic management, regulatory, defence, immigration and criminal intelligence assurance reviews.

Assurance, Assurance Specialist, Consulting, Gateway Assurance, Government Specialist, Strategic Consultant,

John Roberts

SENIOR ASSURANCE REVIEWER

John is a highly experienced proven business leader, program and project delivery director and assurance reviewer with over 30-years experience in corporate governance, financial management, information technology, communications and large-scale transformational change and ERP implementations. John has both lead and been a team member for Gateway reviews for the New Zealand, Australian Commonwealth and NSW governments, with a specialisation across enterprise ERP and finance systems assurance reviews.

Assurance, Assurance Specialist, Consulting, Gateway Assurance, PRINCE2® Specialist, SAP Specialist, SAP/ERP Assurance Specialist, Strategic Consultant,

Peter Thomson

STRATEGIC GOVERNMENT & ASSURANCE SPECIALIST

Peter is very senior and highly respective senior consulting specialist to Australian Commonwealth Government Parliamentary, departmental and agency leaders and executive, with over 30 years' as an executive professional across government health, welfare, social services, veteran affairs and statistics. Peter led the Commonwealth Senior Executive Service information management practices and engage in portfolio and cross government information management activities, oversaw the facilitation of professional and timely advice between the Department of Human Services and the Minister’s Office regarding parliamentary business and machinery of government policies, procedures and protocols; and provided high confidential executive support to the CEO and Deputy CEOs, including overseeing the running of the senior executive governance.

Assurance Advisor, Assurance Specialist, Government Specialist, Strategic Consultant,