Skilled providers agency PwC has issued its biannual workers awards, with eight people recognised for his or her efforts each internally and locally throughout a wide range of classes.
Among the many winners was veteran assurance companion Voula Papageorgiou, who was given the general Edwin Flack Award – named for Australia’s first Olympic gold medallist whose accountancy offered to Value, Waterhouse & Co in 1946.
Different winners included Gabriella Ballesty for staff management, Jean Santos (neighborhood affect), Rebecca Cole (values), Christina Olgaard (curiosity), Kathryn Utting (problem) and Michelle Hazle and Marino Felice (social inclusion).
Based on the agency’s web site, the Edwin Flack Awards as sponsored by its Australian governance board have been held each two years (Covid-withstanding) to recognise and have fun staff-members who’ve made an actual distinction to the agency and its shoppers, individuals and the communities it serves, with an total Edwin Flack Award winner chosen from all open nominees.
Papageorgiou, an assurance companion based mostly in Sydney who has been with PwC for 3 a long time and at the moment handles its Macquarie Group account amongst different giant audit shoppers, follows within the footsteps of current winners Clara Cutajar and Joseph Carrozzi, the latter who served as Sydney managing companion till 2020 and the previous who’s international capital tasks & infrastructure lead.
In the meantime, the Pat McKeon Award was launched in honour of a former companion in 2014 to recognise those that embody the qualities of a future chief and encapsulate the spirit of partnership, this 12 months going to Gabriella Ballesty, a contracting senior supervisor based mostly out of Sydney. 2021 co-winner Suji Kanagalingam turned Melbourne managing companion the next 12 months.
“I’m actually honoured to have obtained the Pat McKeon staff chief award on the PwC Awards,” Ballesty acknowledged on LinkedIn. “It’s humbling to be recognised alongside so many deserving nominees. Main my staff as we set up this new perform as a part of the Contracting Centre of Excellence is a privilege. I’m grateful for the chance and enthusiastic about what lies forward.”
Different winners
Among the many different winners, Christina Olgaard, who was given the curiosity crown, is an vitality transition marketing consultant based mostly now out of Perth after incomes her marine biology masters in Southampton, whereas neighborhood affect winner Jean Santos is a tech advisory senior supervisor who has been with the agency because the begin of 2022 and is a UN advisory board member for NSW.
In the meantime, joint inclusion winners Michelle Hazle and Marino Felice have each been with PwC for a decade or extra, the previous who joined its cloud & digital consulting staff in 2015 and now co-chairs PwC’s incapacity, neurodiversity and ladies’s well being worker teams, and the latter who’s a valuations director and LGBTQ+ advocate who crossed from the agency’s Toronto workplace in 2018.
“Please be part of us in celebrating all of our PwC Australia Awards spectacular winners,” the agency mentioned because it continues on its path of governance and cultural reforms. “Congratulations to all those that had been nominated and recognised for driving our tradition ahead and exemplifying our core values. Your dedication to innovation, inclusion, and dwelling our function actually units a exceptional customary.”
