Grant Thornton promotes nine new partners across Australian offices
Grant Thornton has made nine mid-year partnership promotions across its Australian offices, which along with recent recruits takes its total partner number above 180.
As of the start of next month, Samantha Sing Key, Beau Chaperon, and Nithya Gopalakrishnan become partners in Sydney, while Grant Thornton’s Melbourne office sees the elevation of Kelsey Johnson, Tam Goldin, and Rashtin Fazal.
The accounting and consulting firm has also promoted new partners in each of Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide – Brooke Burgess, Nicole Lawrence, and George Sinanis – on top of recent partner recruits such as Mark D’Angelica and Ashley Miller in Adelaide and Melbourne.
“These promotions stand out to me for their diverse backgrounds and the passion they have brought to their careers,” said outgoing CEO Greg Keith. “It was clear to me as they advanced through our promotion process, they have been singularly focused on the success of their clients, which in turn has made them successful at Grant Thornton.”
Samantha Sing Key becomes a partner in Grant Thornton’s sustainability reporting advisory team in Sydney after joining as an audit & assurance graduate in 2016, including a brief stint spent with the firm in the UK.
An expert in family-owned businesses operating in areas such as real estate & construction, Beau Chaperon becomes a private business tax & advisory partner after close to a decade with the firm in Sydney.
Also in Sydney, Nithya Gopalakrishnan becomes a financial advisory partner specialised in transactions after joining Grant Thornton in Chennai in 2011, before which she spent three years at KPMG.
Down in Melbourne, Kelsey Johnson is now an audit & assurance partner with a focus on the financial services sector, having previously spent time at Crowe and Ernst & Young.
Newly-promoted financial advisory partner Tam Goldin started out at PKF in South Africa in 2009, before switching to Grant Thornton and then migrating with the firm to Melbourne a decade on.
The third of the partner promotions in Melbourne, Rashtin Fazal, a specialist in transfer pricing, has been with Grant Thornton since completing a commerce degree with Monash in 2011.
Meanwhile, in Perth, Brooke Burgess becomes an audit & assurance partner after being with the firm since 2013, having joined on the completion of a commerce degree with Curtin University.
Local LGBTQIA+ network leader Nicole Lawrence also joins the audit & assurance partnership in Brisbane after more than a decade at the firm across two stints, split by two years spent in London.
Lastly, George Sinanis has been promoted as a corporate tax partner in Adelaide, with the University of Adelaide commerce and law graduate originally joining the local office in 2012.
Many of the new partners spoke about their promotions, including Fazal; “Throughout my journey at Grant Thornton, I have been encouraged to leverage my extensive industry knowledge to provide exceptional client advisory services. Joining the partnership is a true honour, and I am delighted to be part of a team of national experts.”
Along with D’Angelica and Miller, Grant Thornton also noted two other recruits the firm has brought in over the past year – national head of technical tax David Montani from Nexia and former PwC director Elizabeth McNamara – who together with its latest promotions take the firm’s overall Australian partnership count to 182 across six nation-wide offices.
