Eu Liang Tan promotion expands Cobalt Consulting leadership team to three
Canberra-based professional services boutique Cobalt Consulting has promoted Eu Liang Tan to managing director, as now one of the three alongside Rahul Verma and founder Mark Tsui.
A former director at EY, Tsui established Cobalt Consulting in 2016 after earlier serving at Synergy Group and PwC. Tan shares a similar background, spending time at Synergy and PwC in addition to the APS and KPMG.
Based in Canberra, Cobalt focuses on providing audit & assurance services to federal government and public sector clients, with additional lines covering forensics & investigations, compliance, procurement, and risk management.
Eu Liang Tan has been promoted to managing director after first joining the firm early last year, before which he spent a brief stint at Synergy Group preceded by four years at PwC in Canberra (alongside fellow managing director Verma, who crossed from the Big Four’s partnership around the same time). Prior to that, he worked for over six years at the Australian Office of Financial Management.
“Eu Liang’s leadership and dedication to his clients and our people have played an integral role in driving Cobalt’s growth and continued success,” the firm stated. “We are confident that with him joining the leadership team, our firm will continue to thrive and solidify our position as a leading provider of audit and assurance services to the public sector.”
Cobalt, which underwent a brand refresh last year, has been quietly building up its capacity in recent times, roughly doubling its headcount with more than a dozen new consultants joining over the past eighteen or so months – many who have crossed from the likes of Synergy Group, EY, PwC and Scyne Advisory. The firm provides services to at least fifteen different Commonwealth entities.
In addition to fellow managing directors Tsui and Verma, the latter who spent over a decade and a half at PwC and became a partner in 2019, Cobalt’s senior leadership team also features a trio of directors; Rajeev Verma, Kerrie Nightingale, and Duncan Meagher, who again bring experience from the Big Four and Accenture, with Meagher also among the firm’s fairly recent recruits, joining in late 2023.
According to its website, Cobalt was established with a focus on three key principles – a commitment to its team and culture, the delivery of uncompromised services, and a hands-on approach to building trusted partnerships with its clients, which since its inception have included federal entities within the defence, social services, trade, and foreign affairs spaces among others.
