Nexia leader Jamie Dreckow joins board of Adelaide Fringe Festival
Jamie Dreckow – the former managing partner of Nexia’s South Australian branch Nexia Edwards Marshall – has joined the board of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, alongside magician Matt Tarrant.
Continuing on as an audit & assurance leader, Dreckow earlier in the year handed over top leadership duties at Nexia in Adelaide to Robert Prime after almost a decade in the role, and now joins the Adelaide Fringe Festival board as treasurer.
The world’s second-largest annual event of its kind after Edinburgh, Adelaide Fringe will welcome more than 8,000 local and international performers to the city across four weeks in February and March, with ticket sales expected to exceed the one million mark.
An accounting graduate of the University of South Australia, Dreckow has spent almost the entirety of his more than three-and-a-half decade career at Edwards Marshall since joining in 1989, with the firm taking on the Nexia branding in 2016 after becoming a member of the global accounting and consulting network five years earlier. He has been a partner since 2002.
In addition to expertise in external audit, financial reporting, technical advisory, risk management and corporate governance, Dreckow is also an experienced company secretary, including currently for the Energy & Water Ombudsman SA, and has worked across numerous sectors covering education, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and non-profit among others.
Dreckow, who is also an audit & risk committee member for SA Health, joins the Fringe board as treasurer alongside another new appointee, Matt Tarrant, who is described as an award-winning magician; an occupation some might consider similar to a top-level auditor and forensic accountant. Amy Van, who was appointed Asia Pacific CEO of GHD last year, is also a member of the board.
“We’re delighted to welcome Jamie and Matt,” said Adelaide Fringe Chair Paul Hamra, a former senior public relations consultant. “Jamie’s financial and governance acumen will strengthen our oversight at a pivotal time, while Matt brings a vital artist-led perspective. Together they’ll help ensure Adelaide Fringe continues to deliver for artists, audiences and South Australia.”
Tracing its heritage back to 1963, Nexia Edwards Marshall has a team of more than 120 professionals between its Adelaide and Darwin branches providing services across assurance, taxation, superannuation, forensic accounting, and business consulting, with agriculture, mining, education, healthcare, hospitality, retail, construction and transport among its areas of expertise.
