Experience

Yellow Canary

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Special Advisor

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  Regulatory technology (regtech) is the future of compliance. I support Yellow Canary’s clients and teams to provide, future focused and ongoing, regulatory technology products (such as “Always on Compliance”) to help those with responsibility for payroll, including the C-Suite and Boards, obtain comfort they are managing payroll compliance risk on a real time basis. As required, I provide senior executive level advice and support to the YC team, clients, legal advisors and our strategic business partners. I also work with the Yellow Canary executive team to focus on broadening its existing suite of technology products to cover additional areas of administrative and regulatory compliance. Show less



PwC Australia

• Australia
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Partner, Payroll Advisory

  • 2020 - 2023

  Acted for some of Australia’s largest employers to help ensure payroll compliance on a go forward basis and, where necessary, remediate historical wage underpayments. Voluntarily retired from the PwC partnership to take up an exciting opportunity outside Big 4 professional services sector.

• Partner, Dispute Resolution

  • Sep 2010 - May 2020

  Acted for clients ranging from Australia’s largest ASX listed, foreign companies, large private groups and high wealth individuals to help resolve disputes with the ATO. Clients represented included all industry sectors on a wide range of topics from technical interpretive matters and interest and penalty mitigation strategies through to debt management and negotiation of payment plans.



Australian Taxation Office

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Commissioner (acting), Australian JITSIC delegate (Washington DC) / senior Executive roles

  • Feb 1998 - Aug 2010

  A highly experienced senior Federal Government official who worked for the ATO in Australia and Washington DC in areas ranging from tax policy, technical interpretation and large case reviews, audit and objections. In addition, I have significant experience working with international tax administrators and the OECD while on secondment to Washington DC in 2009 as the ATO’s JITSIC delegate. Career summary as follows: - acting Assistant Commissioner in the ATO’s Public Groups (2008) and Aggressive Tax Planning (2010) divisions; - in 2009, Australian delegate on the Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre (JITSIC), based in Washington DC during which time I was the ATO’s Competent Authority and attended Forum of Tax Administration meetings. - Senior Director from 2007 to 2009 with responsibility for the ATO’s International Tax Strategy (including transfer pricing) and compliance for the Foreign & Investment Banking sectors. During this time I was responsible for a significant increase in ATO compliance activity and large increase in audit collections. I also played a key role in the development of the ATO’s then position on related party loans and guarantee fees and contributed to the Australian position on OECD Working Party 6. - Senior Director working closely with the ATO’s Tax Counsel to establish the ATO’s view on new tax laws relating to the finance and investment sector - Worked closely with Treasury on the development of tax policy relating to the Banking and Finance sectors while based in the ATO’s National office in Canberra. Show less