Bain & Company subsidiary Enterprise Blueprints launches in Australia

British tech strategy & architecture consultancy Enterprise Blueprints is expanding to Australia, introducing Andy Hopkins as its first local hire.

Andy Hopkins crosses from the Commonwealth Bank, where served as group chief architect, and altogether brings more than two and a half decades worth of local and international financial services industry experience to his new role.

Part of that role will be setting up Enterprise Blueprints in the Australian market, with the UK-headquartered architecture specialist having been snapped up by management consulting giant Bain & Company at the beginning of last year.

“My role has responsibility to help Enterprise Blueprints develop and extend their capability here in Australia, building on the success the business has had both in the UK and US and also the growing demand that Bain & Company has seen for technology strategy & architecture skills across their growing client base within the Asia Pacific,” Hopkins stated on LinkedIn.

Prior to joining the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney at the start of 2021, Hopkins spent two and a half years as the chief architect at MLC Life Insurance in Melbourne, before which he spent three and a half as head of IT strategy, architecture & performance management at QBE Insurance after arriving from a group services chief architect role with ING between Amsterdam and London.

With more than two decades spent between ING and NatWest in the UK, Hopkins will now be tasked with expanding Enterprise Blueprints downunder and providing advisory and support to Bain & Company on its regional client engagements across industries, with a particular focus on the financial services sector. Enterprise Blueprints also serves its own clients as an independent outfit.

Enterprise Blueprints

Established in 2008 and now operating as a label within Bain & Company’s enterprise technology division, the firm supports organisations with their architectural needs around data, digital, cloud, cybersecurity and resilience, and cost optimisation. Led by CEO Neil Mulholland, Enterprise Blueprints boasts a team of more than 50 professionals, mostly based out of the UK and US.

“Business results hinge on end-to-end technology transformations now more than ever before,” said Bain & Company senior partner and Blueprints executive chairman Laurent Hermoye at the time of the acquisition, which was advised on by professional services M&A specialist Equiteq. “I am looking forward to working with Neil and his team to bring enhanced solutions to clients.”

Enterprise Blueprints won’t be the only consultancy operating independently under the Bain & Company umbrella in Australia, with the global management firm picking up local procurement consultancy ArcBlue in early 2022, adding a team of around 150 specialists across the Asia Pacific. ArcBlue similarly teams up with Bain on client engagements to provide end-to-end transformations.