OUR TEAM
Qubist is an advisory business that provides expertise to clients with utility and infrastructure assets. We help clients create greater value, new possibilities and superior outcomes from their assets and organisations.​ Click here to read more about how we can help.
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Qubist was founded in 2018 by a team with extensive experience in construction, engineering consulting and advisory services. Meet the team below...
Principals
Fernando Tiglio, Principal & Director
Fernando’s extensive international career has included key positions for major multibillion (>$90b), multidiscipline major projects and programs of work in utilities (networks, power, water and gas), mining, transport, telecoms and hydrocarbons.
Pat Doyle, Executive General Manager: Strategic Development
Pat has over 40 years’ experience in the construction industry, with an extensive career including previous Executive General Manager and Director roles at Macmahon Holdings, John Holland, Baulderstone as well as project work with Leighton Contractors.
Warren Galbraith, Principal
Warren is an experienced engineering and business leader operating at senior levels in the defence and aerospace sectors. Warren specialises in providing advice and implementation of strategic project management and commercial strategies.
Michael Lesnie, Principal
Michael has deep experience with large, multidisciplinary industrial and infrastructure construction projects, spanning across Australia, Netherlands and Jamaica. Michael specialises in project system design, project readiness reviews, risk analysis, quantitative project analysis and benchmarking.
Evan Mudge, Principal
Evan is one of Australia’s leading advisors to gas and electricity networks with a strong record of providing valuable asset strategy and regulatory advice to Australian energy and infrastructure clients.
David Wilkinson, Principal
David is a seasoned senior executive, whose career has included leading business units within Ausgrid and Evoenergy. He also led the development of key Asset Management decisions and investment requirements for the Sydney road network while working for Roads and Maritime Services (now TfNSW).
Chris Hatch, Principal
Chris is a seasoned engineering and business professional with extensive experience in the electricity sector. Chris specialises in implementing fit for purpose Asset Management Systems and maturing Asset Management processes within organisations that operate in regulated environments.
James Allsop, Principal
James has 20 years of experience in the environmental field working on the delivery of major roads, rail, electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, and mining projects. James has worked on both the client side and for principal contractors, including pre and post-approval roles. Key projects that James has worked on includes Sydney Metro, Paramatta Light Rail Stage 2 EIS and Environmental Management Representative for ConnectSydney.
Chris Amos, Principal
Chris is a highly experienced energy professional. Chris connects the domains of technical, commercial, regulatory, and marketing to deliver clear, careful, and integrated advice. Chris has a specialised capability in energy policy transition at the intersection of technical and economic regulatory issues.
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Mathew Capoulade, Principal
Mathew is an experienced asset management leader in the energy sector, specialising in operations, maintenance, and business transformation. With leadership roles at Evoenergy and Ausgrid, he has driven safety improvements, workforce planning, and operational efficiencies. Now a Principal at Qubist, he provides expert guidance on asset management and operations improvement initiatives.
Executive Consultants
Mark Southey, Executive Consultant
Mark is a highly experienced program director/portfolio manager with extensive experience in the public and private sectors creating, leading and delivering projects and large-scale programs across a range of industries.
Geoff Lilliss, Executive Consultant
Geoff understands business at all levels and is especially focused on Leadership and Strategy , having held positions of Managing Director, CEO, Executive GM, COO, Chief Engineer and a variety of GM roles over his extensive career, primarily in the energy transmission and distribution industry.
Jamie French, Executive Consultant
Jamie is an industry leading integrated technology professional with experience in the roadside and system control industry throughout the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. He specialises from initial concept design, functional and concept of operations through to implementation including asset management and maintenance preparation and review.
Germán Fumis, Executive Consultant
Germán is an accomplished IT and engineering leader with broad expertise delivering digital transformation and asset management initiatives for large public and private organizations with a special focus on healthcare. Leveraging PMP and Scaled Agile certifications, he has led major programs encompassing solution implementation, infrastructure modernization, and process optimization.
Jim Livas, Executive Consultant
Jim is a Water Professional and Executive leading water infrastructure businesses and contractors in Australia and globally. Jim specialises in Business Planning, Business Development and Project Delivery.
Patrick Lovely, Executive Consultant
Patrick is a highly experienced Project Director, Construction Director, and Commercial Lead with over 30 years' working for Tier 1 and 2 Contractors. He has worked in key positions for multi-billion, multidisciplined major projects across the civil infrastructure space.
Ashley Douglas, Executive Consultant
Ashley is a senior executive who has held several executive roles in Tier 1 Contractors during his career, including General Manager – Pre-Contracts Group and Group Manager - Project Reviews while at John Holland. Ashley’s experience includes provision of expert review services to DPE and iNSW.
Zoë Matheson, Executive Consultant
Zoë is an Executive Consultant at Qubist with 27 years’ experience in the water industry in the UK, NZ, and Australia. Zoë has worked on a range of water infrastructure projects, including Beenyup Stage1, MCG Sewer mining project and Prospect WTP upgrades.
Sergio Cutrera, Executive Consultant
Sergio has over 25 years' experience in driving multi-product adoption within customers and partners, establishing trusted relationships with Sales Managers, Product Engineering & Management, and leading the Solution Engineering team for the relevant product line in the APAC region.
Mark Warner, Executive Consultant
Mark is a senior executive specialising in project governance, financial management, and commercial strategy across infrastructure and construction. A CPA, he excels in risk mitigation, contract optimisation, and program management.
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Stephen Kennedy, Executive Consultant
Stephen has over 30 years’ global corporate development experience in growing natural resources companies through M&A and complex mega-projects. He has held senior executive roles with a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund, a London-listed major mining house and a global management consultancy. He leads Global Transaction Partners and Qubist Due Diligence Services, advising on strategic transactions and project finance.
Senior Associates
Lucy Smith, Senior Associate
Lucy is an experienced Civil and Environmental Engineer who has worked on major infrastructure and mining projects as a contractor, consultant and on the government client side. Lucy has extensive experience with the preparation and review of environmental documentation including environmental impact assessments, CEMPs and compliance.
Lee Levsen, Senior Associate
Lee has extensive experience in the setup and delivery of D&C projects within the infrastructure and resources sectors. His expertise includes project delivery, commercial management, interface management, contract administration, procurement, project scheduling claims analysis, expert reports and mechanical engineering.
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Alexander Bye, Senior Associate
Alex is a Chartered Professional Engineer with extensive experience in commercial advisory, construction management and providing engineering and technical support for major infrastructure projects.
Maytas Sirivejchapun, Senior Associate
Maytas is an experienced project manager with a Bachelors of Engineering and Commerce. Maytas has experience delivering high profile major transport infrastructure in excess of $4b. Maytas has extensive experience in project management working for both government clients and Tier 1 contractors.
Luke Hughes, Senior Associate
Luke has extensive advisory experience in the infrastructure and utilities sectors, including strategic PMO establishment, due diligence, regulatory support, governance, cost estimating, portfolio management and project delivery.
Lisa Granqvist, Senior Associate
Lisa has extensive experience in providing advisory services relating to due diligence, business processes, business transformation, capital and operational works planning, program of works, governance and environment across electricity, water and transport sectors.
Bhumika Parmar, Senior Associate
Bhumika is a commercial professional with 16 years of global experience, having worked in the transportation, defence, security, communications and asset management sectors, in the United Kingdom (UK), Hong Kong and Australia respectively. She has worked on both the contractor and client side, with experience in both the pre and post contract project phases.
Adam Teusner, Senior Associate
Adam is an energetic and detail-oriented infrastructure advisory professional whose experience spans the project lifecycle, including project development, procurement and transaction management, project delivery, commercial advisory and contract administration, operational readiness and handover, and O&M and asset management.
Jordan Welsh, Senior Associate
Jordan is a well-rounded commercial advisory professional in the renewable energy sector with over 10 years' experience in corporate and government roles. Jordan has demonstrated skills in project development, strategy and implementation, business cases and competitive tenders, investment decisions and transaction management, innovation funding, technical due diligence, stakeholder engagement, and project management.
Associates
Tertius Vermooten, Associate
Tertius is a project manager with construction management experience in both Australia and South Africa. Tertius has worked for Tier 1 contractors for major multibillion dollar infrastructure projects in Australia including NorthConnex and WestConnex.
Akshay Murali, Associate
Akshay is an experienced Electrical Engineer specialising in asset management, asset performance, and regulatory strategy. He has led initiatives to optimise reliability, enhance safety, and drive cost efficiencies in infrastructure projects, collaborating with regulators, executives, and technical teams to improve network performance and investment planning.
Raymond Vo, Associate
Raymond possesses a combined Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Civil) and Commerce (Finance). He has extensive experience delivering multi-billion dollar transport projects across NSW. He draws on a diverse technical background including finance and data processing to manage and deliver projects.
Ludwig Golzar, Associate
Ludwig holds a bachelors degree in Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration. He has experience in the delivery of infrastructure projects from design management to commissioning and handover. His experience includes the development and management of scope and program for design professionals of rail infrastructure.
Advisors
Alexander Madonna, Advisor
Alexander has extensive experience working for Tier 1 contractors to deliver major multibillion dollar transport infrastructure projects. He has experience in design development and management, construction management and project delivery.
Sam Turner, Advisor
Sam is a chartered engineer and infrastructure advisor with diverse experience across the public and private sectors. Sam's expertise spans Transport, Water, Energy and Mining where he has provided transaction and commercial advisory, project program portfolio management and technical engineering design.
Nick Berriman, Advisor
Nick is an electrical engineer with experience in HV design, project execution, energy strategy, and Renewable Energy Zone implementation. He has a strong background in data analytics, design and strategic consulting.
Tania Ng, Advisor
Tania is an engineering professional who has diverse experience across the building, rail and road sectors in various project stages and disciplines, having worked across project delivery, commercial, sustainability, safety, and planning and project control roles. She has a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.
Senior Consultants
Erin McCosker, Senior Consultant
Erin is a Senior Consultant with experience in the preparation of environmental documentation including environmental management plans, assessments and constructability reports for road infrastructure projects and commercial/social infrastructure developments.
Keeleigh Goldring, Senior Consultant
Keeleigh is a civil engineer with extensive experience in major infrastructure projects for Tier 1 contractors throughout Australia and the UK. Keeleigh’s expertise spans across energy, water, and transportation sectors, across the project lifecycle. She has a robust background in project management, constructability, design management, and commercial administration.
Jack Hickman, Senior Consultant
Jack is a civil engineer with experience in Design and Project Management across the highways sector. His experience has included working on the Easing Sydney Congestion (ESC) Program as an assistant to the Commercial Manager and Program Manager where he was responsible for program reporting, management plans, subconsultant management, fee builds, and programs.
Cherry Alom, Senior Consultant
Cherry is a Chartered Civil Engineer with expertise in civil infrastructure, transport, and energy projects for Tier 1 design consultants. She specialises in contract administration, risk assessment, design management, and stakeholder coordination, with experience in offshore wind, energy storage, and major transport developments.
Consultants
Petra Quartullo, Consultant
Petra has a robust background in design and construction, with extensive experience in Design Management, Project Management, and Sustainable Strategic Planning. Petra has been instrumental in developing master plans for emerging cities, operational plans for airports, environmental strategies, and resource efficiency plans.
Liam Murray, Consultant
Liam is a engineering professional with experience working on projects in QLD, NSW, and ACT. Liam has a passion for human-oriented sustainable transportation solutions and project management, and has developed energy experience supporting DNSPs with transmission pricing scheme updates. He also has experience in cost benchmarking and developing asset management plans on behalf of private asset stewards.
Sue Kim, Consultant
Sue is a Civil Engineering and Computer Science professional. She is interested in the transport engineering field. Her involvement in student societies at UNSW including Civil & Environmental Engineering Society (CEVSOC) and Engineers Without Borders has translated into her passion for civil management and advisory.
Finance & Accounting
Santiago Cabido, Finance & Accounting
Santiago is a Public Accountant with international experience across diverse industries, including retail, commodities trading, and agribusiness. He specializes in accounting and finance, delivering strategic insights and ensuring operational excellence.
Business Development
Josefina Lozada, Business Development - Sales Management
Josefina is a Business Development professional with 5 years’ of experience. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Human Resources, and possesses vast experience in IT recruitment, and commercial growth tools.
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