Grant Thornton makes 8 end-of-year partner promotions across Australia
Accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton has made nine end-of-year partnership promotions across its Australian offices, the 26 additions in the back of the year taking its overall total to 190.
From the beginning of next year, management consulting duo Mark Allsop and Kirsten Ridgway become partners in Melbourne, alongside tax colleague Kevin Cope, while Max Tan and Duarte Augusto join the risk consulting and audit partnerships in Sydney.
Rebecca Moy also becomes an audit & assurance partner in Brisbane, while private business & tax advisory pair Laurel Qui Dixon and Stephen Borgna step up in Adelaide and Cairns.
“As part of our strategy to shape better futures, we believe in providing clear pathways for our people to senior roles within the firm demonstrated by these nine promotions,” said CEO Said Jahani. “Each of these new leaders has shown a singular focus on client success – as well as living our purpose and values – which in turn drives our success as a firm and for our people.”
Mark Allsop becomes a partner after joining Grant Thornton earlier in the year from his earlier role as national private market consulting leader at PwC. He also previously held the same position at Deloitte during a seventeen-year career at the firm, including twelve of those spent as a partner.
Kirsten Ridgway likewise joins Grant Thornton’s management consulting partnership in Melbourne, having switched to advisory in 2022 after more than a decade in retail supply chain senior leadership roles between MECCA and Coles and an earlier taste of the industry as a business analyst at Accenture.
A specialist in foreign investment withholding tax and VAT recovery, Kevin Cope joins the tax partnership in Melbourne with close to a decade and a half of experience under his belt supporting various fund management clients in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, including time spent at the Big Four.
A risk and internal audit professional with a focus on the higher education sector, Max Tan joined the Grant Thornton in Sydney at the beginning of last year, having also previously served as a director at both KPMG and Deloitte during his more than two decade between the Big Four pair.
Newly-promoted audit & assurance partner Duarte Augusto has spent the majority of his career at Grant Thornton, including a brief stint in the UK, after joining in Sydney in 2015. He is currently a member of the firm retail & consumer products and food & beverage industry groups.
Rebecca Moy becomes an audit & assurance partner in Brisbane, having also spent the majority of her career at Grant Thornton, starting with a four years in the UK firm’s Manchester office before migrating in 2011. She provides assurance and advisory services across a range of sectors and clients.
A family business specialist based in Adelaide, Laurel Qui Dixon becomes a private business tax & advisory partner after recently being recruited from KPMG, prior to which she spent a decade and a half at Pitcher Partners up until 2021, including as director of the SA firm’s China business unit.
Stephen Borgna will celebrate becoming a private business advisory & tax partner in Cairns alongside his twentieth anniversary at the firm. He specialises in self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), and supporting local construction clients in meeting Queensland regulatory requirements.
