Engineering and infrastructure advisory firm Aurecon is building its Advisory Practice with two more additions to its leadership team.
In June, Aurecon CEO Giam Swiegers announced that two senior advisory leaders, Brad McBean and Stuart Cassie, had joined the firm.
Mr. McBean has been appointed as Aurecon’s global Advisory Managing Director and Mr. Cassie as its ANZ Advisory Market Director.
McBean joins Aurecon from his previous role as Partner within the Strategy Practice (Strategy&) at PwC Management Consulting and Mr. Cassie as PwC Managing Director Capital Projects.
Mr. Swiegers has also commissioned independent consultant Gerhard Vorster, most recently Deloitte’s Chief Strategy Officer and previously Deloitte’s consulting leader in Australia, South Africa, and South East Asia, to advise on the growth of Aurecon’s global Advisory business.
The three will join Matt Coetzee (ANZ) and Dr. Chris Von Holdt (South Africa) to form the leadership team of Aurecon’s Advisory Practice.
Mr. Swiegers said in a statement, “As one of Australia’s biggest providers of infrastructure and engineering services, Aurecon is seeing an increasing demand for consulting advice around supply chain, asset optimisation, portfolio, programme and project optimisation and the digitisation of infrastructure across both our private and public sector clients.”
“With a focus on the rapidly changing face of key areas of infrastructure such as Transport and Cities, these leaders will work closely with Aurecon’s Chief Digital Officer Dr. Andrew Maher to develop Aurecon’s solutions to support the digitisation of infrastructure.”
“Aurecon is responding to the enormous demand around the world to improve connectivity of people and freight. This is driving a surge in infrastructure investment in places like Sydney and Melbourne, as well as focus by organisations to drive productivity improvements and work their existing assets harder.”
“Brad, Stuart and Gerhard trained as engineers and have built and sustained world-class supply chain and procurement capabilities as well as advisory practices across a number of industry segments. I am delighted to welcome them to Aurecon.
“The engineering and infrastructure industry faces huge change and challenges over the next few years. In a commoditised market, subject to disruptive technology, we must respond to the constantly shifting business landscape. This means knowing our clients and their businesses better than our competitors and excelling in bringing innovation and expertise to the table to help solve their most difficult problems,” said Mr, Swiegers.
Mr. McBean’s appointment as Managing Director, Advisory, accompanies several other significant appointments – Andrew Muller as Chief Financial Officer; Michael Shirley as Managing Director, Clients; Dr Andrew Maher as Chief Digital Officer; and Maureen Thurston as Global Director, Design to Innovate.