Create Advisory grows senior ranks through recruits and promotions

Established last year, infrastructure & major projects consultancy Create Advisory has been quietly building up its bench-strength in recent weeks with the appointment of several new senior leaders.

Create Advisory was set up by former Sayers partner Nicole Scurrah in the middle of last year alongside a handful of colleagues, but has accelerated its growth in recent weeks through promotions and the hire of new recruits as principals and directors.

Among those, Jason Wozniak has been recruited as Victoria lead, Diana Lollato and Lachlan Macleod have come on board, while Alex Hoffman, Jess Thomas, Sarah Ramsay, Peter Betteridge, and Jordan Mclay have all been promoted.

With a headcount of around 20 professionals, Create Advisory offers a range of strategic, commercial and technical advisory services for major projects in the transport, property and energy sectors, along with stakeholder engagement and communications, from offices in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.

Recruits

Appointed managing director in the Melbourne office, Jason Wozniak crosses from the infrastructure advisory partnership of Deloitte, where he has spent the past two years following a two-and-a-half-decade career at Aurecon between Australia and New Zealand, including as the engineering and design consultancy’s global infrastructure advisory leader with a focus on asset management, transaction advisory, and due diligence.

Diana Lollato comes on board as a principal in Brisbane after a brief stint at Aurecon herself, before which she spent the best part of a decade at state financing body Queensland Treasury Corporation, latterly as local government executive director. Her earlier career was in banking, with long stints at NAB, Citibank and Lloyds dating back to the mid-80s.

Also recently joining the firm, as a director in Sydney, is Lachlan Macleod, who crosses after the past three years as a business case development lead at Transport for NSW. Previously, he spent six and a half years rising to associate director within the integrated infrastructure practice at PwC (Scurrah’s former base prior to the launch of Sayers), earlier working as an economist at AECOM.

Promotions

Additionally, the consultancy has also recently made a series of senior promotions, including Jess Tomas as a principal in Melbourne and Brisbane-based pair Peter Betteridge and Jordan Mclay as directors, with all three having defected with Scurrah from Sayers. Two other early joiners, Sarah Ramsay and Alex Hoffman, step up to principal, bringing backgrounds from KPMG and PwC.