Because it leans into the brand new monetary yr, restructuring and enterprise advisory agency KordaMentha has celebrated twenty current partnership promotions throughout its Australian and worldwide workplaces.
Lots of the new companions have been recruited from the Large 4 and different top-level organisations over the previous twelve months, together with public sector trio Lachlan Abbott, Jess Finlay, and Andrew Mrnjavac within the agency’s new Canberra workplace.
Different partnership recruits and promotions have been made in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Singapore, and canopy KordaMentha’s rising vary of apply areas together with efficiency enchancment, actual property, cybersecurity and forensics.
“The previous twelve months have been among the many most enjoyable within the agency’s historical past,” acknowledged co-founders Mark Korda and Mark Mentha. “We now have grown considerably, increasing into new service areas and growing much more strategic abilities. We congratulate our newly-promoted companions who’ve turn into specialists of their fields and welcome those that have chosen KordaMentha as their new dwelling.”
Promotions
Lara Wiggins (restructuring), James Wagg (efficiency enchancment), and Ben Mahler (forensics) have all been with KordaMentha for a decade and a half or thereabouts, and have now been promoted to companion in Melbourne. One other new Melbourne-based forensics companion, Anya Gielen, joined the agency in 2019 after a decade at PwC.
Restructuring companion David Kim likewise joined KordaMentha in 2019, in Singapore, having beforehand spent greater than a decade between FTI Consulting and Ferrier Hodgson within the city-state and Sydney, whereas Sydney-based monetary crime and public sector companion Grace Mason joined the agency from AUSTRAC as an government director in late 2022.
Cybersecurity companion Tony Vizza additionally joined the agency in Sydney in 2022, bringing twenty years value of experience and advocacy work in cybersecurity, know-how, privateness and the regulation, together with as a board member of the Australian Info Safety Affiliation (AISA).
PwC hires
Like many different native consultancies of assorted stripes, KordaMentha has capitalised on PwC’s authorities tax scandal by bringing in disenchanted or discarded senior expertise, with former PwC authorities, well being, infrastructure & defence nationwide apply chief Peter Konidaris the best profile of these to cross.
Others to affix as companions from the embattled agency embrace infrastructure duo David Ballantyne and James Wijemanne in Sydney and Brisbane, and KordaMentha’s Melbourne-based healthcare apply lead Richard Ainley, who additionally spent seven and a half years at Nous Group.
In Melbourne, public sector companion Morgan Forrest arrived late final yr after greater than a decade at Technique&, with workplace colleague and one-time Invoice Shorten chief of workers and Victorian authorities veteran Alison Currie having additionally been a companion at PwC till mid-last yr.
Different recruits
Among the many agency’s most up-to-date partnership recruits, Roheena Khan crossed from Deloitte’s know-how partnership in Sydney after a decade on the Large 4 agency and an earlier stint at SAP, whereas Ryan Korda joined the agency’s actual property workforce in Melbourne final month after greater than a decade at CBRE, latterly as nationwide director of business valuations.
In a double-coup, new partnership pair John Dewar and Dionne Higgins each joined KordaMentha’s efficiency enchancment and public sector apply in Melbourne since final September from excessive stage roles within the training sector, having respectively served because the vice-chancellors of La Trobe and RMIT.
