BDO has added Aaron Hooper, Gemima Newcombe and Anna Doogan to its Canberra staff, bringing the trio in as administrators to help observe leaders Paul McDougall and Ridhish Arora.
The latter pair have now formally come on board as companions to steer the agency’s latest, federal government-focused workplace, with McDougall to supervise advisory and Arora heading up know-how & digital companies.
Becoming a member of them can be various fellow former Massive 4 recruits, together with new administrators Anna Doogan and Gemima Newcombe, respectively ex-Ernst & Younger and Deloitte, and Aaron Hooper, who crosses from Scyne Advisory.
BDO introduced its march on Canberra in August following a exceptional, market-defying progress streak which noticed the accounting and consulting agency’s Australian department crack the $500 million income mark final yr, with two-decade PwC public sector veteran McDougall recruited from Scyne’s partnership to steer the cost alongside former Sayers and Deloitte companion Arora.
“I’m excited to have joined BDO as one of many founding companions to determine the Canberra workplace. It’s nice to be teaming up with Paul, a buddy and colleague I’ve recognized for over 20 years, and I’m actually wanting ahead to working with some nice new staff members, together with a couple of acquainted faces from my previous,” mentioned Arora, with the pair since luring various former colleagues throughout.
Aaron Hooper
Amongst them is Aaron Hooper, who previous to serving as director at Scyne Advisory over the previous yr since its founding spent the earlier decade and a half at PwC, and one of the best a part of a decade at EY previous to that. An data tech graduate of the College of Canberra, Hooper brings a wealth of native expertise in delivering undertaking & program and ICT assurance to public sector purchasers.
Gemima Newcombe
Newcombe in the meantime comes on board after a earlier two-and-a-half-year stint as a principal at native consultancy ConceptSix, earlier than which she served as a director of Deloitte Consulting throughout a three-year interval on the Massive 4 agency. Along with the federal government and public sector, she is famous for her experience in know-how advisory and serving start-ups, boutiques, and multinational purchasers.
Anna Doogan
Having kicked off her profession at Coopers & Lybrand in 1996, Doogan involves the agency as an audit & assurance director through Ernst & Younger, the place she beforehand spent eight years throughout two stints. In between, she was a senior director with the Australian Nationwide Audit Workplace (ANAO), the place she spent greater than a decade, whereas most just lately serving as a director at AssuranceLab.
BDO in Canberra
BDO beforehand mentioned it intends to construct up its Canberra workplace to probably ten companions and greater than 100 workers inside the subsequent couple of years, with the hope of producing an additional $50 million in Australian revenues by 2028. Chairman David Fagan revealed that because it stands, public sector consulting already accounts for round a fifth of the agency’s $540 million native take.
