Main regional trade affiliation Threat Administration Institute of Australasia (RMIA) has named Abhi Ganugapati from Adaptus as ‘Threat Advisor of the 12 months’.
Primarily based out of Melbourne, Abhi Ganugapati joined Adaptus as as director from Aurecon in mid-2022 and leads the agency’s Victorian consulting observe, advising private and non-private sector shoppers on danger administration and sustainability.
Ganugapati was certainly one of eight people honoured by the RMIA throughout varied classes, together with Conscious Tremendous chief danger officer and sustainability group govt Jane Couchman as 2024 ‘Threat Chief of the 12 months’.
The RMIA’s annual awards search to recognise excellent management inside the danger administration trade over the prior twelve months, with Ganugapati famous for his skill to successfully interact with senior company executives and authorities departments throughout industries in translating advanced danger ideas into actionable methods.
The skilled physique cited two of Ganugapati’s current engagements as “showcasing his experience in making use of danger administration rules to advanced, high-stakes environments” – the event of a risk-based resolution framework to boost flood resilience for crucial state infrastructure, and because the danger assurance companies lead for Victoria’s largest tunnelling venture.
“This award is a testomony to Abhi’s excellent work and dedication to delivering high-quality outcomes for our shoppers, leveraging main observe approaches from danger administration and resolution science to deal with the advanced sustainability and local weather challenges impacting enterprise and society,” Adaptus stated in celebrating the win.
A chemical engineering graduate from the College of Canterbury (complemented by a masters in engineering administration from Melbourne College), Ganugapati has amassed a decade and a half price of expertise in areas akin to infrastructure planning, funding technique, and asset and danger administration, with a powerful concentrate on the water utilities section.
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In 2022, he joined two former Aurecon colleagues – Adaptus managing director Mayuran Sivapalan and fellow director Jerome Bowen – to assist additional develop the burgeoning boutique consultancy, which gives ESG efficiency, vitality transition, and local weather resilience companies to shoppers within the mining, assets, transport, and manufacturing sectors amongst others.
For instance, along with work on the North East Hyperlink, different initiatives have included creating a greenhouse gasoline discount technique for a worldwide vitality firm, a strategic danger administration overview of pure property for Parks Victoria, and main a modelling & resolution help program inside the $260 million Nice Barrier Reef ecosystem restoration R&D venture.