KPMG welcomes 9 new partners in its consulting business
Global professional services firm KPMG has made 52 partnership admissions across its 2024 financial year, with the bulk of those added to its recently rejigged management consulting division.
Altogether, 21 professionals have been promoted or recruited as partners within KPMG’s consulting division since the middle of last year, with around half of the cohort part of the firm’s mid-year intake.
KPMG’s consulting division is one of the largest advisory practices in the nation, and recognised as a leading consultancy in multiple categories. The arm, the largest of KPMG’s five divisions in Australia, is led by Paul Howes.
Of the nine consulting professionals celebrating promotions starting this month, a third work directly in the area of technology, including Brisbane-based tech risk & cybersecurity professional Claire van Rooyen, who originally joined KPMG in South Africa in 2008, and Saurabh Shukla, a digital and technology advisor based out of Sydney with a focus on the financial services sector.
Over in Perth, Amitabh Das Gupta is another new partner with a tech focus, specifically in delivering large-scale SAP transformations (like Shukla, bringing a background from Accenture and Capgemini), while others, such as Joanne Bonadio, a member of KPMG’s transformation & program management team in Melbourne, advise on the use of technology to tackle challenges.
Elsewhere, two defence sector specialists, Bee Levett in Canberra and Judy Doyle in Sydney, both formerly with the RAAF, have also been elevated to partner, along with another Canberra-based public sector consultant David Talbot. Sydney’s Elizabeth Clark (public sector strategy, policy and analysis) and Ben Lubach in Brisbane (governance & risk) round out the consulting promotions.
“I’m delighted to welcome these talented individuals as partners and am particularly proud of their varied backgrounds and the depth of experience that they bring to our firm and clients.” KPMG CEO Andrew Yates said of the 2024 crop. “Our clients face complex, unprecedented challenges. It’s our role to help them navigate these and emerging issues impacting their people, markets and operating environments.”
More broadly, the total figure of 52 new partners across its business – including lateral recruits – is significantly down on the 94 admitted over the previous period, amid a slower growth environment for consultancies due to spending caution at corporates and government policy that is scaling back external consulting hiring.
Speaking with the AFR, Dorothy Hisgrove, KPMG’s national managing partner for people & inclusion, acknowledged the reduced intake was a reflection of the “slowing market conditions and the headwinds that we are anticipating, especially in our traditional consulting services,” while adding that the new consulting partners were “definitely focused on tech-related advisory.”
New KPMG partners 2023-24:
Consulting
Joanne Bonadio – Melbourne
Adrian Chevalier – Melbourne
Sharon Cody – Melbourne
Sean Comerford – Melbourne
Lisa Dunne – Melbourne
Sallyanne English Ingram – Melbourne
Peter Li – Melbourne
Shruti Hegde – Melbourne
Christopher Matthews – Melbourne
Anubha Sinha – Melbourne
Elizabeth Clark – Sydney
Judy Doyle – Sydney
Josephine Poirrier – Sydney
Saurabh Shukla – Sydney
Charlie Appleby – Brisbane
Ben Lubach – Brisbane
Claire van Rooyen – Brisbane
Bee Levett – Canberra
David Talbot – Canberra
Amitabh Das Gupta – Perth
Dawn Rees – Perth
Enterprise
Damion Keasey – Sydney
Nicolette Nawrot – Newcastle
Michelle Swift – Newcastle
Mohammad Azhar – Parramatta
Adrian Cheng – Melbourne
Kar Lim – Melbourne
Andrew Sun – Melbourne
Paul Robson – Geelong
Nick Conolan – Perth
Sarah Josey – Perth
Amanda Tirtadinata – Perth
Keirstyn Spencer – Brisbane
Dominika Zerbe-Anders – Brisbane
Audit & Assurance
Matthew Brunton – Sydney
Belinda Cicchiello – Sydney
Adi Galimidi – Sydney
Simon Bramwell – Melbourne
Sarah Greaney – Melbourne
Sarah Newman – Melbourne
Tax & Legal
Sonya Harris – Sydney
Craig Robinson – Sydney
Jas Singh – Sydney
Jennifer Ta – Sydney
Dorian Beaver – Melbourne
Stacey Hannam – Melbourne
Roseanne Ross – Melbourne
Felicity Cooper – Canberra
Natasha McCarthy – Perth
Deal Advisory & Infrastructure
Aidan Murphy – Melbourne
Tom Stephenson – Sydney
Business Services
Craig Carmody – Melbourne
