John advises clients on a range of strategic communications, media engagement and stakeholder engagement activities.

John is an experienced corporate affairs professional, with more than 16 years of corporate advisory, investor relations and financial and corporate communications experience working in professional services and in-house roles. He also has an extensive network across the Australian and international media sectors, backed by 20 years’ experience at The Australian Financial Review, including five years as managing editor.

He is a former managing director of Cannings Corporate Communications and a founder of Quay Advisers, which was acquired by Teneo in 2018.

John advises senior management and boards on corporate transactions and strategy, reputational issues, media and investor relations, litigation and executive and board room restructuring.

He has worked with many of Australia’s largest ASX listed companies and international corporations.

On reputational issues, John has advised companies and individuals addressing matters before ASIC, FIRB, ACCC, APRA, ICAC and parliamentary inquiries.

Bo is an experienced strategic communications and financial advisory professional with expertise across investor relations, financial communications and corporate finance.

Bo has advised clients across a range of areas including M&A transactions, equity and debt capital markets activity, issues management and corporate positioning from both a financial execution and investor relations standpoint for over two decades.

As Managing Director of Tribune, Bo advises ASX-listed and private companies on corporate transactions, investor relations and communications strategy, and issues management.

Prior to joining Tribune, Bo was a senior vice president at Teneo, a global CEO advisory firm. Before Teneo, Bo was a senior adviser in CBA’s Corporate Affairs team. Bo has also worked at several strategic communications and investor relations consultancies in Sydney and Melbourne.

Bo began her career in finance, working in Ernst & Young’s transaction services team and at corporate advisory firm Grant Samuel, where she supported clients on M&A transactions, IPOs and valuations, as well as debt and equity capital raisings.

Bo holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Communication from Bond University, a Diploma of Investor Relations from the Australasian Investor Relations Association and is a former member of the Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand.

A nationally recognised government and politics specialist, ‘Kort’ operates at the intersection of public policy, market forces and client aspiration.

Kort is a respected media and political operative and his knowledge of the machinations and nuances of government is recognised by all political parties.

He has provided M&A advice, issues management and strategic counsel to many of the most high-profile CEOs and Boards in Australia over three decades.

Kort came to the private sector after a successful career as a political campaign strategist, public sector departmental head, diplomat and army officer. He was Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition in both the State (NSW) and Federal spheres and served in the Australian diplomatic corps in Asia, Africa and the OECD in Paris.

Kort served on Bond University Council from 2003 to 2009 and was the inaugural President of the Australia-Africa Business Council.

Since the late Nineties, Murray has specialised in planning and executing M&A and corporate play proxy fight tactics and strategies. This expertise, coupled with his lengthy background in business journalism, has afforded clients a unique approach for identifying and influencing proxy targets and to conducting proxy contests.

Murray was founding managing director of Georgeson Shareholder Australia (later acquired by Computershare) and a founding director of Global Proxy Solicitation (later acquired by Morrow Sodali).

Apart from his experience in proxy solicitation and shareholder opinion research, Murray also has 20 years’ experience as a media relations consultant to Australian and multinational companies and was a co-founder of strategic communications consultancy Quay Advisers.

Murray is Chair of Alliance Advisors Australia.

Louise has advised government and the private sector during an extensive career that includes 11 years at The Australian newspaper, where she was the managing editor and held a number of other senior roles including commercial editor, sports editor and national deputy Chief of Staff.

Louise was named a Top 100 Woman of Influence by The Australian Financial Review and has also worked around Australia and the world as a journalist, foreign correspondent, editor and executive for other media platforms including The Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC and AAP.

As an experienced communications professional, Louise has worked at numerous major world sporting championships, six Olympic Games and six Commonwealth Games in a variety of communications and media roles.

In 2019, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the media.

Cratis has been a senior digital business development executive for the past 20 years with a focus on the media, higher education, marketing and communications sectors.

He is highly skilled in advising and leading high performing teams in brand management, marketing, advertising, digital strategy and communications, working with CEOs across many geographies.

Cratis has recently worked in international pathways education with Study Group and the SEEK-owned Online Education Services advising on partnerships and new business opportunities.

He is a former Chief Marketing Officer for RMIT University with global responsibility for the brand, driving domestic and international student and business growth. Prior to that, Cratis established the digital education brand Open Universities.

In the 1990s, as a leading media academic in Australia and the US, Cratis led research projects in public journalism and was the head of learning and development at John Fairfax Publications (now part of Nine Network).

Paul is an experienced corporate advisor with expertise in operational improvement and restructuring, particularly in the FMCG sector.

He has more than 25 years’ experience in managing organisations in the FMCG/food & beverage environment, with a B2B focus over the past 15 years.

Paul had been involved in a number of site and business mergers and is an experienced change/project manager in both manufacturing operations and sales organisations. In his professional career, Paul has been most successful in turnaround assignments where fast change has been required.

Paul’s directorships include Sara Lee Australia as a managing director, CEO of Cavitus Australia, Cavitus Malaysia and T&CO (Malaysia).