FTI Consulting recruits trio of senior managing directors
Global professional services firm FTI Consulting continues to add to its firepower in Australia, recruiting another trio of senior managing directors.
Natasha Passley joins FTI Consulting’s cyber team from the partnership of KPMG, while Sabine Bennett, crossing from Deloitte, is the latest of the firm’s recruits to its rapidly growing healthcare practice. Ex-KPMG risk consulting partner Warren Dunn is also set to join the firm.
Natasha Passley joins in Sydney after spending the past three years as a partner at KPMG, where she led the firm’s financial services segment, prior to which Passley worked in senior roles at IAG and Deutsche Bank in Australia and the UK.
“Organisations are facing increasingly complex cybersecurity threats against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions and major regulatory shifts,” said global FTI Consulting Cyber practice head Anthony Ferrante. “Robust cybersecurity programs are no longer a recommendation, they are a must-have, and Natasha’s expertise strengthens our ability to meet the evolving needs of our clients.”
Also in Sydney, Sabine Bennett becomes yet another senior managing director in FTI’s recently-launched Healthcare & Human Services practice. But contrary to the firm’s other recent hires from PwC/Scyne and KPMG, Bennett crosses from Deloitte, where she has been a partner since 2022, before which she was a SAP consultant at NTT Data in a two-and-half-decade IT career.
“It’s great to welcome Sabine as the newest leader in our national health team,” said practice lead Nathan Schlesinger, ex-PwC. “Sabine joins our growing digital transformation capability, an offering focused on digital experience transformation in health, aged care and human services. This is a new kind of service in the market, and she is the ideal leader to shape and scale this capability.”
Schlesinger also said the firm isn’t wasting any time in building out the fresh practice immediately, a contention supported by the recent recruitment of Simon Taylor-Allan from KPMG as a risk consulting managing director in Sydney, who brought along senior director Swati Swarup, while Anna Maslyanaya has also joined the team at the same level from PwC.
Meanwhile, FTI’s risk consulting practice is also set to welcome another consulting heavyweight, according to reports. Warren Dunn has departed KPMG and will join FTI after completing his Big Four bingo card; starting out at PwC in Perth in 1998 before moving on to Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and finally KPMG, the latter pair where he was a partner.
Fifth office
In addition to its new senior managing directors, Simon Taylor-Allan has also recently joined FTI’s risk consulting division from KPMG as a managing director, alongside a host of senior directors, while the firm has now officially launched its fifth Australian office in Canberra.
Speaking on the Canberra launch, Australian country head Mark Dewar said: “Opening our fifth office is a major milestone for FTI Consulting in Australia. It reflects our ongoing commitment to growing our footprint and delivering exceptional services to clients nationwide.”
