Partner, Head of High Growth Ventures
Revenue Operations Director at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Portfolio Manager Lead at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Portfolio Manager at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Business Development Manager at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Business Development Manager at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Business Development Manager at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Growth Marketing Manager at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Marketing Executive at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Assistant Manager at KPMG High Growth Ventures
Partner, Business Tax & Advisory
Josh is a Partner within our Business & Tax Advisory practice. Based in Hobart, Josh specialises in helping clients navigate their tax and compliance obligations, with a particular focus on ESG and Corporate Reporting. In addition to this, Josh brings a personal understanding of high growth ventures and founder journeys as co-founder of a cloud & mobile tech start-up, based in Wyoming, USA.
Partner, Business Tax & Advisory
Sarah is a Partner based in Perth within the Enterprise Business Tax Advisory Service. Sarah has over 15 years' experience providing advisory and compliance services to corporate enterprises and startups. Sarah works with founders, business owners and their teams to develop and implement goal focussed strategies. Sarah has operated as an outsourced CFO, and advised clients on matters including: enhanced finance capability, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, tax effective structuring and Board reporting/governance, amongst other broad finance function support.
OCFO & Bookkeeping
Leanne is a Partner within Business Tax & Advisory and heads up our Outsourced Finance and Bookkeeping Support team. Leanne was previously a Finance Director for a large US consumer food brand and has 30 years’ experience working with businesses at all stages of growth. Her chartered, commercial, and personal business experiences have enabled her to provide significantly broader insight and perspective to clients, the likes of which include Anytime Fitness, Krispy Kreme, and numerous SAAS and consumer product business. Most notably, she’s passionate about working with founders, providing strategic finance function support as they scale their startup, manage stakeholders and investors, prepare themselves for capital raising, or expand into new markets and territories.
Director, Outsourced CFO
Adam is a Director with KPMG's Outsourced CFO team. Adam brings a combination of experience in providing technical accounting/ finance advice as well as fund accounting assistance. Adam works with high-growth companies, including Sustainable Salons, Quasar Satellite Technologies, and Corrivium.
Partner, Enterprise
Rachel is a trusted adviser with more than 17 years' experience, who provides tax, accounting and advisory services to private clients, including private businesses, startups, high net worth individuals, family offices and inbound multinationals. Rachel works closely with business owners and families to provide an integrated and commercial approach to all aspects of their group, including considerations of group structures, investments, outsourced CFO solutions, corporate and family governance, and succession planning. Rachel has experience in a range of industry sectors, including property development, hospitality, consumer products and professional services.
Director, Corporate Secretarial Services
Wendy is a Director and the lead of KPMG Enterprise’s Corporate Secretarial team. Working out of our Melbourne practice, Wendy has over 17 years’ experience as a legal practitioner and company secretary. Wendy specialises in supporting clients with their company incorporations, foreign company registrations and their ongoing compliance and financial reporting obligations to ASIC. As an experienced company secretary, she also provides meeting support to boards and committees including preparing meeting agendas, board packs, resolutions and minutes and providing assistance with procedural matters. She particularly enjoys working with small businesses in helping them to build reporting and governance structures that will position them for future growth.
Partner, Valuations
Joanne is a Partner within our Deal Advisory Services group. Joanne has more than 25 years of corporate finance experience, including the preparation of public expert reports, valuation of shares, businesses and intangible assets, value analysis of business plans and corporate strategies, financial modelling and design of business plans, and the provision of corporate advice for a variety of corporate transactions, including disposals, acquisitions and corporate restructuring. Joanne has prepared a number of public independent expert reports and independent expert reports for shareholder disputes. She draws on skills from accounting, finance and valuation to deliver robust advice to corporate and government clients for transaction, financial reporting, tax, asset pricing and dispute purposes.
Director, Deals Advisory
Thomas is Director within our Deals Advisory team. With over 20 years of experience in his role as a valuation expert, Thomas has extensive valuation and financial modelling experience across several industries and clients, including renewables and waste services. He has been recently supporting a number of technology and high growth businesses with his expertise.
R&D Tax Incentive
Georgia is a Partner and the head of KPMG’s National R&D team. With a strong focus on technology-based innovation, Georgia specialises in assisting high growth venture clients identify and access State and Federal Government support. She has supported many of our clients in accessing R&D tax incentives and grants to accelerate their growth strategies, R&D development programs and investments projects. Georgia also remains a member of the Victorian Bar where, prior to joining KPMG, she advised in all areas of administrative and commercial law (with a focus on technology disputes).
Grants & Government Incentives
Alun is a Principal Director and the lead of KPMG’s National Grants team. With over 25 years’ experience, Alun specialises in assisting clients access government incentives for innovation, research and development, technology commercialisation and growth activities. Alun brings a deep understanding of the government grants programs designed to accelerate the growth of early-stage businesses. He has worked closely with our clients to successfully access support from a range of these programs including Accelerating Commercialisation and Export Market Development.
Director, R&D Incentives & Grants
Joel is a Director in KPMG'S R&D and Grants team with over 15 years experience assisting companies to access the R&D Tax Incentive and Government Grant programs. During this time Joel has focused on software technology start-ups and SMEs to support their growth strategies, R&D/Grants programs and investment projects. Joel brings specific expertise in development of R&D claim governance processes and methodologies, particularly aligned with software and technology companies.
Director, KPMG
Nicole is a Director in the Accelerating Business Growth (ABG) practice, specialising in assisting clients with understanding and accessing government funding (including R&D tax incentives and grant programs), the tax and accounting implications of funding, liaising with regulators, research organisations and universities, developing practical growth strategies, and bringing an ESG/ sustainability lens to her client’s growth agenda. With a passion for the outdoors and the environment (and a previous career as a National Parks ranger), Nicole has a keen focus on how global and national tax policy will shape an environmentally sustainable future for business.
Partner, Agribusiness Lead
Monika is a partner in the Deals & Specialist Services team within KPMG’s Enterprise division and leads the firms Agribusiness practice. For more than 10 years, Monika has focused on advising Agribusiness on government incentives for R&D and innovation. She has an in-depth knowledge of research and development in the industry including R&D and grants policy and global incentive programs. Her client base ranges from early-stage startups through to some of Australia’s largest companies.
Director, R&D Incentive & Grants
Matthew is a Director within our R&D Incentives & Grants team. Matthew has over 15 years domestic and international experience in assisting clients access government incentives. Matthew has significant experience working with technology companies, including FinTechs, having previously worked with KPMG in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Matthew has worked with numerous startups, including Loam Bio, Caprock and Dovetail
Partner, Tax Advisory
Jackie is a Partner within the Tax Advisory team within KPMG Enterprise. Jackie has over 20 years of experience advising companies with global operations on their employer obligations as a result of sending employees out of/into Australia and the US as well as assisting the employee with their personal Australian and US tax filing obligations.
Employee Remuneration and Incentives
Jacqui is a Partner and the Head of Employment Taxes & Reward at KPMG. Specialising in employee reward services and global mobility, Jacqui has experience servicing a range of startups including Nutromics and Indebted. Her expertise in equity-based reward structures has enabled a number of startups to enhance their performance, increase employee retention and maximise start-up concessions. Jacqui also supports clients in navigating employer obligations for cross border transfers and individual income tax matters.
Director, Employment Reward Services and Global Mobility
Adrian specialises in employment reward services and global mobility, both for startups and established businesses. His expertise in equity-based reward structures has enabled founders to enhance their performance, increase employee retention and maximise startup concessions. Adrian has worked with a number of startups and scaleups, including Stake and HoneAg.
Partner, NSW Mid-market Deals Lead
Adam Cronin helps founders and business owners prepare for what's ahead, whether it’s a strategic acquisition, expansion, or exit. He leads KPMG’s mid-market deals practice in New South Wales and brings over 20 years of experience navigating clients through the full M&A lifecycle. Adam’s focus lies in helping companies build toward an exit well before the transaction window opens. His insights span what acquirers look for, how to position for value, and the systems businesses need in place today to support a smooth deal process in the future.
Partner, Deals & Capital Markets
Tapan has more than 20 years of professional experience in M&A and transaction services roles. He joined the KPMG partnership in 2020 to lead the Deals team within KPMG Australia’s Enterprise division, focusing on mid-market M&A transactions and capital raisings. He provides financial due diligence and reviews, and works with clients to manage the overall transaction execution on acquisitions, divestments and capital raisings, including dual-track processes. He has significant experience in delivering investigating accountant reports on IPOs and advising clients with exit readiness. Tapan has authored IPO market outlook publications and has a strong working relationship with ASIC and the ASX.
Partner, National Leader Enterprise Deals Advisory
Angus is the national leader for the KPMG Enterprise Deals team, specialising in mid-market M&A and capital markets engagements. Angus's focus is on private business acquisitions and divestments, Private Equity and Family Offices, and capital raisings / IPOs. Angus works closely with a number of high-growth startups and scaleups within Australia.
Partner, Audit
Yuan is a Partner in our Audit practice, specialising in private equity. With a career spanning over 10 years of delivering audits, Yuan brings international experience having of serviced clients across both the Australian and UK market. Yuan brings extensive technology and software industry knowledge, all the way from fast-growing ambitious, entrepreneurial mid-market organisations from start-ups to the ASX 200. Yuan has supported several leading tech businesses on their journey pre and post IPO, including global technology powerhouses such as Canva and Appen.
Director, Audit
Dhimant has over 7 years of experience in the delivery of audit and assurance services to entrepreneurial mid-market organisations across various sectors and geographies. Dhimant specialises in the delivery of audit and assurance services to fast growing, entrepreneurial mid-market organisations with a broad range of clients from ASX 200 companies to startups. He has helped take clients through expansion, helped navigate through restructuring, acquisitions and educate clients on changes to statutory and regulatory requirements.
Partner, Tax Advisory
Gareth is a Partner in KPMG's Enterprise Tax Advisory team. He brings over 16 years’ experience in Big 4 Public practice, providing income tax advice and tax compliance services to Australian corporate entities and private groups. In particular, Gareth specialises in advising on tax structuring and transactions, cross-border matters and private group tax planning.
Partner, Tax Advisory
John is a Partner in our Business & Tax Advisory practice and has been working alongside start-ups, privately owned businesses, and Australian listed companies during the past 12 years. John has extensive experience in helping Australian technology businesses navigate the complexities of capital raising, international expansion and liquidity/exit events. John specialises in being able to breakdown complex tax issues and communicate the practical and commercial implications of such issues, enabling his clients to make informed decisions whilst focusing on driving the growth of the business.
R&D Tax Incentives
Mat is the Partner in Charge of KPMG Enterprise’s R&D Incentives and Grants team. He has more than 20 years of Research & Development (R&D) experience, undertaking R&D reviews for global and local companies, and advising corporate organisations, startups and founders how to scale and grow. As National Co-leader of Renewables, Mathew assists with planning and strategy, procurement and financing, monitoring and performance improvement, refinancing and restructuring, R&D and grants, accounting and tax, and government policy in relation to renewable energy and cleantech.
R&D Tax Incentives
Joel is an Associate Director within KPMG’s R&D team. Joel has extensive experience in assisting clients in Australia to fund their innovation and growth plans. He has a strong understanding and appreciation of the challenges faced by entrepreneurial, high-growth businesses and the role that government funding can play in achieving sustainable growth.
