BlueRock has added former Large 4 consultants Jason Crawford and Rachel van Ketwich as administrators in its analysis & improvement and authorities incentives division in Melbourne.
A former associate at Deloitte, Crawford joins BlueRock after spending the previous seven years working his personal agency, Incentives Advisory, whereas van Ketwich crosses from GrantReady, bringing earlier expertise at EY and KPMG.
BlueRock mentioned the appointments come on the again of rising demand for its incentives advisory, with the pair to initially concentrate on supporting shoppers in getting ready for the federal government’s upcoming Export Market Improvement Grants.
“Rachel and Jason aren’t simply extremely skilled operators within the R&D and authorities incentives house, however they’re additionally incredible leaders and nice folks,” mentioned BlueRock accounting govt managing associate Trevor Gordijn. “We look ahead to seeing them assist our valued shoppers prosper by elevated grant funding and tax incentive maximisation.”
Jason Crawford
Previous to establishing Incentive Advisory in 2017 – which has now merged with BlueRock – Crawford spent over twenty years as a associate and director at numerous main accountancies, together with SW (beforehand ShineWing), Moore Stephens, and Deloitte, the latter the place served for eight years as R&D tax incentives lead associate for each New South Wales and Victoria.
Bringing altogether shut to a few a long time of expertise serving the engineering, manufacturing, shopper items, agribusiness, and ICT sectors amongst others, Crawford was famous by BlueRock for excelling in areas corresponding to technique formulation and execution, operational excellence, workforce management, enterprise improvement, and new market phase identification.
Rachel van Ketwich
In the meantime, van Ketwich joins the agency after spending the previous 5 years as head of R&D and grants at specialist advisory GrantReady, earlier than which she spent 5 years as a guide between KPMG and Ernst & Younger, the place along with incentives she suggested shoppers, together with startups, SMEs, and different listed firms seeking to develop abroad, on strategic commerce and funding.
Tom Moore
The brand new recruits be a part of Christchurch-based Tom Moore as administrators of BlueRock’s R&D and authorities incentives observe, the latter who was promoted to the rank originally of the yr after being tapped to guide the agency’s official enlargement into New Zealand on the finish of 2022. The native department additionally helps Kiwi firms with increasing or exporting again into Australia.
