Rennie adds Julian Mitton as director to business advisory team

ESG-minded management consultancy Rennie has added yet another executive director to its mix: former Aurecon principal Julian Mitton, who joins the business advisory team in Sydney.

With a recent focus on the infrastructure sector both public and private, Mitton altogether brings three and a half decades worth of advisory and leadership experience to Rennie, further bolstering its burgeoning Sydney office.

Mitton is the firm’s fifth executive director recruit in less than twelve months following Dan Sunderland, Emily Readhead, Phillip Vrettakis, and Sin Yin Long, while business advisory leader Ian Rakich joined at the end of 2022.

“We are delighted to welcome Julian as an executive director,” Rennie stated. “Julian is a seasoned leader in management consulting, business transformation and infrastructure advisory across a range of markets including precincts/built environment, energy, water, transport, and defence. He will help lead our national business advisory team and the rest of our growing Sydney Office.”

Mitton crosses after spending the past two and a half years leading Aurecon’s management consulting capability in Australia, before which he served as an executive director in the NSW Department of Regional Development where he led the strategy and $1 billion worth of investment decisions for a regional precincts initiative which is expected to generate over 18,000 new jobs.

Prior to that, he spent close to a decade as a partner leading complex client engagements with government and defence-focused projects & assets consultancy Helmsman International. With a lengthy period also spent in the finance industry, Mitton’s consulting experience dates back to Arthur Andersen in 1989, with other earlier senior stints at PwC, Logica (now CGI), and Deloitte.

Mitton said: “Rennie Advisory is at the forefront of building sustainable business models for its clients in Australia and provides an opportunity for me to bring together my long held passion for our environment and genuine business transformation. I'm very much looking forward to working with the team to broaden our footprint and help Australia achieve its decarbonisation and resilience targets.”