Expertise consulting big Accenture is launching a brand new transactions advisory providing for the Asia Pacific area, which will likely be led by Sydney-based managing director Suzie Blinman.
Suzie Blinman has served as Accenture’s A/NZ personal fairness chief for the previous eighteen months, becoming a member of the agency final yr from the partnership of Technique& to move up the newly-created apply.
Sitting inside Accenture Technique, the brand new Asia Pacific tech-driven transaction advisory and worth creation apply will serve the agency’s company M&A and personal fairness purchasers throughout the area.
Blinman brings three a long time price {of professional} expertise to her new position, having kicked off her profession with near a decade at Kearney earlier than a three-year stint at enterprise and offers advisory Crescendo Companions alongside recently-appointed EY Port Jackson managing associate Chris Paxton, who co-founded Crescendo after departing Kearney earlier than then later becoming a member of Technique&.
Blinman nonetheless took a decade-long detour into the media trade earlier than her personal PwC stint, together with time as chief industrial & company and chief buyer officer at Foxtel Media (the group’s promoting options arm). In 2020, she rejoined the consulting fray as a associate in Technique&’s offers technique & worth creation group, earlier than then crossing to Accenture final July.
Now, Blinman has been tasked with establishing the Asia Pacific arm of the tech big’s Transactions Advisory apply, whereas additionally stepping up as world personal fairness technique lead for the APAC area. The division advises on leveraging superior applied sciences together with generative AI all through the M&A life-cycle, from technique and due diligence by means of to organisational design.
Accenture factors to advances in AI & analytics, digital knowledge rooms, and cloud-based instruments for managing advanced integrations as among the applied sciences that are remodeling threat analysis and decision-making to streamline and speed up M&A processes, with two thirds of executives in a latest Accenture survey saying they anticipate GenAI to revolutionise the offers operate.
In establishing the transactions advisory line within the Asia Pacific, Blinman will likely be supported by US-based world apply chief and senior managing director James Neely (additionally ex-Technique&), and world Technique personal fairness lead Rachel Barton out of London. Europe and North America M&A bosses Sven Wahle and Seth Van Winkle oversee the apply of their respective areas.
