Melbourne-based accounting and advisory agency Morrows has promoted Kellie Stark to government director, as now considered one of seven senior professionals sitting under the administration director staff.
Stark joined Morrows as a senior enterprise & tax advisor in 2015, after a decade between Hannah Direct and accounting boutiques Bell and 360 Companions, and jumps to government director stage after being promoted to principal on the finish of 2023.
Presently based mostly out of its Southbank workplace in Melbourne, Morrows is a member of the MSI International Alliance and boasts a 65-year legacy, with a staff of roughly 100 professionals serving purchasers on their tax and enterprise advisory wants.
“We’re devoted to making sure our enterprise evolves to fulfill the wants of future generations,” acknowledged Morrows managing director Graeme Marks. “Kellie’s appointment displays that dedication. She embodies the values of our agency, and her ardour for advisory and talent to foster significant relationships positions her to guide us into the following chapter as a key member of our government staff.”
Stark’s promotion to government director is in step with Morrows’ latest management transition, which after having been initially established in 1959 final 12 months noticed six of its professionals – Adrian Fong, Archie Lygris, Chris Molloy, Kirsty McCormack, Kyle Brumley, and Lisa Wilson – additionally take the following step up, supporting Marks and fellow administration execs Laurel Moulynox and Neil Yeoman.
Moulynox, who began out at Morrows as a graduate accountant greater than three many years in the past and is now recognised by Barron’s as amongst Australia’s high 5 dozen main personal monetary advisors, mentioned of Stark; “Kellie’s appointment strengthens our inner management and capability to mentor rising expertise. It’s thrilling to welcome one other robust feminine chief to the chief staff.”
Since becoming a member of from her CFO function at advertising & gross sales firm Hannah Direct in 2015, Stark is credited with having helped drive the success of Morrow’s enterprise and tax advisory division, by means of which she gives purchasers with advisory providers on strategic planning, company structuring, asset safety, efficiency enchancment, and taxation consulting.
“Turning into an government director has all the time been an aspiration, and I’m proud to attain this with a agency that actually aligns with my values,” Stark mentioned of her appointment. “I sit up for working alongside the chief staff to drive Morrows’ imaginative and prescient ahead and make a constructive distinction for our purchasers by serving to them obtain their objectives and safe their monetary futures.”
Management succession plan
Morrows sits simply outdoors the highest 50 accounting and consulting organisations of its form in Australia, in accordance with the annual checklist compiled by the AFR, producing annual revenues a shade over $18.5 million. The agency gives a variety of providers grouped round tax, SMFS and enterprise advisory, accounting, authorized, and wealth administration to organisations and people within the mid-market.
Talking on the agency’s broader management succession plan over the previous 12 months, Yeoman acknowledged: “Myself and the opposite two managing administrators, Laurel and Graeme, thought that we actually wanted to herald some newer, youthful individuals to maintain us going into the longer term. We’ve got a duty to our founders, purchasers and other people to proceed rising and driving our enterprise ahead.”
