Our Team
Dr Russell Joshua – Chief Executive Officer
Dr Joshua is an accomplished, skilled and highly competent professional with a track record of successful entrepreneurial leadership and strategy development and implementation at director, executive and senior management level. His career history includes roles in the private and public sectors spanning education and training, environmental sciences, technology commercialisation and private equity.
Linda Breen – Partner
Linda’s status as a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia (GIA) and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, along with her professional track record of successful leadership, strategy development, governance and implementation at director and senior management level evidences her achievements and reputation as a highly accomplished professional. Her career history includes roles in private and public sectors spanning more than 25 years across the education, health and publishing/advertising sectors.
Mike Drogemuller – Partner
Mike is a proven business leader with a background in international business, marketing and communications. He built a successful medical business from a start up to more than $5m in sales over 5 years and developed a successful public relations practice in Sydney from start up to a diverse agency practicing in the consumer, financial and healthcare markets featuring clients including Macquarie Bank, Platinum Capital and Sanitarium Foods.
Scott Wesley – Partner
Scott is a highly experienced senior manager and Chief Executive Officer, specialising in agile operations management, quality assurance and risk minimisation solutions spanning the financial services, hospitality and vocational training sectors. He is acknowledged for a pragmatic, business-focussed approach as well as the ability to quickly establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
Carol Lewis – Partner
Carol is an accomplished human resources professional, with extensive experience across corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. She has a proven track record of advising organisations at both strategic and operational levels with demonstrated ability to manage complex human resources situations, change management initiatives, and organisational development projects. Her professional qualifications include a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment, a Master of Business (Employment Relations), UTS and Bachelor of Arts, University of Canberra.
Nicky Swan – Partner
Nicky is an accomplished, skilled and highly competent professional with a track record of successful leadership, strategy development and project implementation at director and senior management level. Her career history includes roles in the private and public sector, spanning more than 20 years across the tourism, local government, education, health and the publishing/advertising sectors.
Dr Kerry Hudson – Associate
Dr Hudson’s commitment to personal and professional education is underscored by the development of sophisticated marketing and communication skills in both commercial and non-profit environments. These skills have been complemented by her extensive experience in education, publishing, the legal industry, the management of not-for-profit enterprises and corporate governance.
Keith Jones – Associate
Keith is a Chartered Practising Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Consultant.
He is currently advising, and acting as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), for a waste recycling company, a commercial and domestic waste collection company, a horticultural group and a dairy operation.
Kent Jones – Associate
Kent carries a wealth of directoral and accounting experience. He was Director of a corporate compliance company for eight years and an executive with a management advisory firm prior to that. He is an experienced and dedicated business consultant.
Steve Reynolds – Associate
Steve is a seasoned IT and communications professional with over 30 years experience delivering technology solutions to a variety of organisations around the world. He is experienced in performing hardware and software inventories to identify gaps in application services. After performing the inventory, Steve develops appropriate plans to either extend the life of existing applications or replace them with enhanced services. He has extensive experience in Database; Middleware; Mainframe; Open Source platforms; Communications and Cloud infrastructure to offer options in application transition.
Les White - Associate
Les is a proven senior communications, media and politics professional. He has broad-reaching experience in brand building and management, crisis management and media, stakeholder management, relationship development and maintenance, internal communications and negotiation with key stakeholders. He was a key adviser to three senior Ministers across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland working in the most complex multi-stakeholder environments in Australia