RSM makes raft of senior board and partner promotions in Australia

10 July 2024 Consultancy.com.au

Accounting and consulting firm RSM has made nine new partnership promotions in Australia, alongside the fresh national executive appointments of James Komninos and Jessica Olivier.

Chair of the firm’s Asia Pacific region, company veteran Komninos continues his stint on the local board, while Sydney-based R&D tax services partner Olivier joins the national executive after arriving from PwC in 2016.

The top-level appointments occurred alongside the firm’s mid-year partnership intake, which saw nine new internal promotions together with recruits Tim Linke (financial modelling) and Maria Williams (CFO Advisory) from Deloitte.

RSM makes raft of senior board and partner promotions in Australia

Williams crosses to the RSM partnership in Adelaide after the past two and a half years with Deloitte, before which she spent over a decade between PwC and Ernst & Young as a director in Budapest and Sydney. Linke also previously spent time at PwC before joining Deloitte, along with an earlier career at Pitcher Partners and its international Baker Tilly affiliate in London, which has become a part of RSM.

As to Komninos and Olivier, the former has been a partner with the firm for more than three decades and previously led its ‘foundational’ Perth office, while Olivier is a relative newcomer, having spent over a decade at PwC up until joining in 2016 preceded by two years at KPMG in London on the back of a business BSc. at Cardiff University before migrating to Oz in 2005.

RSM has also added nine new partners in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Albury, alongside around a dozen director appointments and dratfees. RSM chief executive partner Jamie O’Rourke said the significant number of appointments reflected the firm’s recent exponential growth, and its strategic commitment to increasing its female talent pipeline and participation at senior levels.

“As our firm continues to grow and diversify, it’s important that our senior leadership grows alongside it too,” O’Rourke said, citing the firm’s long-in-place progressive parental leave policies and willingness to still promote those on a temporary baby-break. “As an organisation we’re committed to creating a level playing field for our female leaders to progress.”

One such example is national sustainability lead Nicole Mohan, who started out at the firm as a graduate and has been promoted to risk advisory services partner after recently giving birth to her daughter. She said: “While gender equity is a whole lot more than parental leave, supporting the career development of our female employees while they take time off to have a family is crucial to increasing female talent.”

New partners

In addition to Mohan, who is now based out of Brisbane, RSM’s new partnership cohort included Albury-based business advisory pair Adam Eady and Travis Connell, who respectively joined from Crowe in 2015 and 2017, along with fellow advisory practice elevations Murray Fong and Myles Pover in Sydney and Perth, who both joined the firm as accounting graduates.

Sydney also welcomed corporate finance and tax graduate duo Danielle Sherwin and Stephanie Kanellis to the partnership fold, alongside office colleague and ex-Pitcher Partners assistant manager Nathan vom Bruch, while Melbourne’s sole promotion was Damian Sellitti, who joined the firm’s corporate tax team in early 2021 via Coles after a seven-year stint at Deloitte.

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