Water infrastructure consultancy Sequana has boosted its senior staff with three new hires, welcoming Deb Neumann as Director and Anne Cormack and Melanie Tranter as Affiliate Administrators.
Within the newly created position of Director of Strategic Setting and Planning, Deb Neumann will lead the corporate’s new surroundings and planning providers providing, which goals to assist organisations within the water, vitality and utility sectors develop into extra sustainable and plan their subsequent environmental strikes.
Neumann brings over 20 years of expertise working immediately with State and Commonwealth Governments and main purchasers within the water and vitality sectors to the position. She has a background in delivering main infrastructure tasks, strategic land use, and environmental recommendation in city and regional settings.
She was most not too long ago was Head of Setting and Planning at BlueFloat Power, the place she was accountable for the environmental, planning, and coverage workstream for its offshore wind tasks throughout Australia. Earlier than this, she labored at engineering firm Jacobs for nearly twenty years in varied roles.
“In her position, Deb will carry strategic and modern considering to how advanced environmental and planning approvals are delivered, difficult business-as-usual approaches and facilitating earlier environmental and planning concerns to help environment friendly and streamlined challenge and program supply,” stated Frank Fisseler, CEO of Sequana. “We’re extraordinarily excited to have somebody of Deb’s calibre be part of our senior management staff.”
On her transfer, Neumann stated: “I’ve been watching Sequana from the sidelines for a couple of years now and have been impressed with its popularity for getting issues carried out and the way the organisation is famend for being a trusted advisor and advocate for its purchasers. We’re on the cusp of an actual step change in our trade with an insurmountable job forward as we sort out the realities of the local weather disaster.”
In constructing the providing, Neumann will work intently with Paul Neilson, Sarah Hale and Anshika Gupta, who collectively lead the Setting & Planning service providing.
Additional strengthening its senior staff, Sequana has appointed Anne Cormack as Affiliate Director of Setting and Planning and Melanie Tranter as Affiliate Director of Strategic Setting. Cormack joins Sequana with virtually 16 years of expertise in environmental planning and evaluation. Tranter brings over 20 years of expertise within the water and pure assets trade in the private and non-private sectors.
Established in 2019, Sequana gives challenge and program administration providers to the water sector and vitality sectors, combining business recommendation with technical engineering experience. The agency is backed by non-public fairness.