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Brett Kelly (appointed on 16 April 2017)
Brett is the Founder and CEO of Kelly+Partners. He has more than 20 years of commercial and professional accountancy experience, specialising in assisting private clients, private business owners and families. He commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant with 5 years at PwC Australia, and then worked at 3 mid-sized accounting firms. In 2006, Brett founded Kelly+Partners with accounting businesses in North Sydney and the Central Coast, before building out the network to 30+ businesses over 30+ locations to date. Brett is also the best-selling author of four books on life, business and wisdom.
Stephen Rouvray (appointed on 2 May 2017)
Stephen has over 50 years’ experience in financial services across many senior leadership roles. He was Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary and Manager of Investor Relations for AUB Group (formerly Austbrokers) from 2005 until 2015. Prior to this, he was General Manager for ING Australia Holdings from 2002 to 2005 having joined ING’s predecessor company, Mercantile Mutual, in 1985. Over this 20 year period, Stephen held the position of Company Secretary which included its subsidiary companies operating in the life & general insurance, investment management, funds management and banking sectors. At the start of his career, he worked in the accountancy profession from 1971 to 1984. Since retiring as CFO, Stephen continues to represent AUB Group as a director on the board of two of its associates.
Ryan Macnamee (appointed on 2 May 2017)
Ryan is an experienced business technology executive with over 25 years of IT management and cyber security experience. He is currently on the board of Thinkproject Australia & New Zealand, and previously held board positions at the Open Data Institute and Advanced Navigation. Ryan has served in numerous senior IT management roles, including Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Ryan has also held various senior IT positions at financial, insurance, construction, and retail operations globally. Ryan is co-founder of ECPPro, a Microsoft Azure cloud focused solution provider helping large corporations and MSP (Managed Service Providers) to manage complex cloud environments.
Lawrence Cunningham (appointed on 1 July 2022)
Lawrence is an expert on corporate governance, culture, and structure. Since 2007, he has been the Tucker Research Professor at The George Washington University. Cunningham has written extensively on corporate affairs in university journals and periodicals. He has published many influential books, including The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, in collaboration with Mr. Buffett; The AIG Story, with Hank Greenberg; and Quality Shareholders: How the Best Managers Attract and Keep Them.
Lawrence is Vice Chairman of the Board of Constellation Software Inc., a Toronto Stock Exchange company, and Director and former Treasurer of Ocean Colony LLC, a private resort in East Hampton, New York. Cunningham is a Trustee of the Museum of American Finance; a Member of the Dean's Council of Lerner College of Business at the University of Delaware; and a Member of the Editorial Board of Financial History.
Lawrence has served on the Boards of Directors of Ashford Hospitality Prime, an NYSE investor in luxury hotels; Pearl West Group, a private investment company in Vancouver, and Strata, a private technology company in Silicon Valley.
A former Corporate Associate of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Lawrence consults for public and private corporations and advises management and boards of directors. He has received numerous awards, including the 2018 B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).
Paul Kuchta (appointed on 2 May 2017)
Paul is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years' accounting experience specialising in the provision of compliance, tax and advisory services to private SME’s and their owners. He commenced his career with Farrar & Company Chartered Accountants in 1998, where he worked for 10 years. Paul then joined Crowe Horwath in 2008 for a further 4 years. He was a founding partner of Kelly+Partners Norwest when the practice was launched in 2012. Paul is the managing director of Kelly+Partners Sydney.
Ada Poon (appointed on 6 September 2019)
Ada has more than 20 years' professional accountancy experience and has specialised in accounting and taxation services to Private Business Owners based in Sydney, business and personal taxation compliance self-managed super funds and outsourced finance department services.