About PAC
Primary Asset Consulting (PAC) principals and partners, with a collective experience of decades, coalesced in 2004 to create PAC and to dedicate themselves to providing a unique and unmatched service to their clients.
In addition to offering a first-rate executive-search and recruitment service, PAC recognised that improving the performance of leaders is directly linked to improving business profitability and job satisfaction. Visionary clients and business leaders embraced PAC’s EPI (Efficiency Performance and Improvement) program and witnessed through their own participation productivity and profitability soaring. (But don’t take just our word: click here to read what EPI graduates say about PAC’s EPI program.)
PAC is a privately owned firm with offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and in Hong Kong and Singapore. We also work with affiliates in Europe and North America.
PAC partners and principals offer specialised services in three distinct and complementary areas:
- Executive search/Executive recruitment ranging from individual appointments to team lift-outs, business builds, succession planning and board appointments.
- Advisory as a specialist division providing tailored solutions to fund managers, family offices, superannuation funds, wealth managers/private banks and other companies investing in funds management.
- EPI (Efficiency Performance Improvement) where we are offering an industry-leading efficiency and performance improvement program that focuses on moving leaders and their colleagues to a high-performance culture.
PAC can partner with your organisation to deliver the outstanding results you seek.
PAC's People
PAC’s team of leaders and principal consultants are skilled and experienced professionals driven to exceed client and candidate expectations.
Executive Search
David Dawson
Managing Director
David is Senior Partner and Managing Director of Primary Asset Consulting Pty Ltd.
Australian born, his university education was undertaken in Switzerland in the early 1990s. David was an honours graduate and on completion of his studies he accepted a position in Moscow, excited by the prospect of working in a society which was adapting to a new openness and a massive restructuring. He remained in Moscow for five years, consulting for local firms and international corporations and eventually establishing an executive-search business.
David returned to Australia in 1999 to join a leading executive-recruitment firm for which he built a highly successful financial-services practice.
In 2004 David established Primary Asset Consulting to extend the high quality and innovative financial-services options he had developed.
David has been the driving force behind the evolution of creative financial advisory services including team lift-outs, funds-manager incubation, acquisitions and divestment. He specialises in C-level, executive and leadership roles.
Primary Asset Consulting now is recognised as one of Australia’s most successful financial-services search and advisory specialists. Its highly skilled consultants and associates manage a client list which includes top Australian and international financial corporations and banks.
PAC and its associates operate from offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore.
John Pappas
Partner
John is a Partner at PAC whose background in financial services includes more than 12 years working in global financial markets with diversified industry exposure and strong expertise in company analysis, market-sector analysis covering various treasury products (FX, commodities, IR, risk origination), managed funds, trading and broking, M&A/origination and IPO as well as business advisory.
John’s experience includes several years running the Banking and Financial Services Division of a leading global executive-search company with operations including Singapore and Hong Kong.
John’s executive-search assignments cover a range of successful domestic and international appointments throughout the Asia Pacific region with a focus on capital markets.
Garry Medland
Partner
Garry is the Partner responsible for managing PAC's Insurance Practice. He has over 12 years executive-search experience covering many areas of financial services with specialisations in insurance and superannuation.
Garry has successfully sourced specialists, senior managers and executives across distribution, operations, strategy, product and marketing both domestically and internationally for clients throughout Australia.
With an ever-increasing demand for specialised talent within insurance, benefits and superannuation in Australia, Garry’s deep knowledge of the local and global markets combined with his skill in running a highly intensive and rigorous search process provides PAC’s clients with unprecedented access to the best talent available.
Advisory
Warren McAuley
Partner
Warren is a Partner at PAC and has over twenty years of experience in funds management and institutional broking. He has held a number of senior-management positions in Europe and Asia Pacific with companies including UBS Asset Management, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, HSBC Securities and SBC Warburg.
Warren's in-depth financial services knowledge and expert consulting skills have enabled him to achieve significant success and a powerful reputation in business advisory and executive search in the funds management industry. His experience extends across both the Australian and global funds management markets.
Warren's specialties include senior-level Funds Management / Asset Consulting appointments, team lift-outs, manager incubations, business partnerships and acquisitions and the divestment and purchase of assets.
Eva Riou
Head of Global Research
Eva is Head of Global Research for PAC. Prior to this role Eva spent nine years in the funds management industry in Europe, based in France.
She began her career in 1999 as a Performance Attribution Analyst for Société General Asset Management (SGAM). In 2003, Eva joined the business-intelligence team, where she was responsible for the competitive-positioning analysis of the worldwide SGAM funds. In 2006, Eva integrated the Multi-Asset Management team as a fund of fund manager. She built the open architecture process and developed extensive relationships with boutiques across the European and Asian regions. Before her departure for Australia, Eva was managing 1.1 billion Euro.
Eva holds a Masters Degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) and won a Lipper Award for the management of the SGAM Euro Aggressive Balanced Fund.
Efficiency Performance and Improvement
Cyril Peupion
Director / Partner /Passionate Executive Coach
Cyril Peupion has held senior roles in business and talent development in Europe and Australia.
He understands senior executives and their teams and is a passionate coach in the area of individual and organizational performance, challenging leaders' work habits to dramatically improve their company's performance and bottom line.
EPI testimonials and acclaim for our performance coaching program.
Simon Smith
Coach
Simon Smith is a qualified coach and trainer. He specialises in business, executive and career coaching and is passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and helping them achieve their professional and personal potential.
Simon has lived, worked and operated various small businesses in a variety of places around the world, including the UK, Borneo, Philippines, other parts of Asia and Central America.
Simon's career started with 10 years as a commissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force, directing Air Defense fighter aircraft and managing teams of up to 45 people in peacetime and non-peacetime situations.
Simon also holds qualifications in Small Business Management, Training and Assessment (TAA04), as well as mentoring qualifications and accreditation on the suite of GeneSys psychometric assessments (including a 360-degree feedback).
EPI testimonials and acclaim for our performance coaching program.
Paul Tribe
Coach
Paul is a highly skilled facilitator, coach and consultant with over 13 years of commercial achievement. His style is engaging, direct and highly interactive.
Following an outstanding career in sales, marketing, management and as a company director, Paul is now dedicated to improving the potential and performance of teams and individuals through inspiring workshops and coaching.
Paul was also trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst which is regarded as one of the world’s best leadership institutions. Paul spent eight years as a British Army Officer in part-time command and training appointments. He has experience of a diverse range of cultures through living in Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia and South America.
Paul has trained and developed over a thousand people within a wide range of organisations and markets. He draws on his experience of succeeding within highly competitive market places. This, combined with his military and entrepreneurial background, means that Paul has a powerful and dynamic approach that consistently produces results.
EPI testimonials and acclaim for our performance coaching program.
Kimberley Hannagan
Coach
As a consultant facilitator, mediator and coach, Kimberley has had a very diverse career. Her involvement in mediation, process management and coaching projects has seen her take up roles in settings ranging through manufacturing, IT, professional services and the healthcare industry amongst others. She has operated her own consultancy, managed a business networking organisation and lectured on MBA and other academic programmes.
Specialising in tailoring experiences to specific requirements, Kimberley is highly sensitive to the specific needs and interests of executives, teams and individuals. Complementing her work in Effectiveness Training and Lean principles, Kim draws from a Masters in Dispute Resolution. Her fields of expertise encompass management and leadership coaching, negotiation skills, relationship and team building, dealing with personalities and cultures, communications and conflict management and coaching.
In presenting critical business and interpersonal skills in corporate, workplace and academic settings, feedback describes Kim’s style as energetic, engaging and empathetic.
EPI testimonials and acclaim for our performance coaching program.
Mary Morris
Coach
Mary is an exciting and motivating facilitator across all business levels drawing from an enviable background in human resources within a number of industries and management roles, which provides her with the knowledge to apply best practice in all her projects.
She facilitates practices that enable individuals and organisations to deepen their learning, strengthen relationships and appreciate diverse perspectives.
Her ability to engage and empower employees to adopt new behaviours and implement change is apparent in all her projects, while her energy and techniques inspire new ideas and act as a catalyst for business excellence.
Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology, Certificate in Human Resource Management, Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training and is a Certified Coach and accredited facilitator in Emotional Intelligence, LSI Accredited.EPI testimonials and acclaim for our performance coaching program.
Christine Heyting
Coach
With experience of facilitating, coaching and consulting in 25 countries, Christine draws on her wealth of knowledge of organisational development. She partners with her clients to analyse their needs and implement initiatives to support sustainable change. She has helped many individuals and teams move from potential to performance.
Christine’s career has included senior roles in professional services firms in Australia and Europe, often managing large cross-border virtual teams. More recently, her consulting work in Asia saw her running leadership and management training for senior leaders and their teams. Her programs are rated by the participants as inspirational and highly engaging.
Her qualifications include a Masters of Management, a Graduate Certificate in Adult Education and Training, a Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training, plus a range of accreditations in Emotional Intelligence, MBTI and executive coaching.
EPI testimonials and acclaim for our performance coaching program.
Partnering with PAC
The primary asset of any organisation is its people: they are its most valuable resource and its most vital investment.
Important decisions are human based and, whether it be hiring an executive, improving individual efficiency and effectiveness or acquiring another firm, it’s people who are at the heart-and-soul core of those decisions, solutions and transactions.
PAC’s expertise is to partner with its clients to maximise return on their investment in people.
We take a partnership approach to every engagement we undertake.
Establishing and building partnerships with our clients and stakeholders is what we do.
We see PAC as an extension of your business operations and we recognise that the ongoing success of your business is linked to the ongoing success of ours.
We are an easy firm with which to work and we take our responsibilities seriously.
Like any partner, you can count on us. We are there - whenever and wherever we’re needed.
Back to topStandards of Ethical Practice
Each member of the Primary Asset Consulting Pty Ltd team shares the standards for ethical management and accepts the principles of ethical practice detailed here:
Integrity: We are bound to uphold the principles of honesty, fair play and good faith not only to ensure long-term success, but because we believe in it as a key value beyond financial security. We look to avoid conflict-of-interest relationships and to disclose and clarify intentions of policies, procedures and processes.
Performance: The success of this organisation will be reached through consistent successful outcomes for our clients. All team members will be striving to over-achieve and will act with persistence and determination to reach their goals. In an entrepreneurial manner, we are open to taking calculated risks and accepting all outcomes.
Communication: We are open-minded and seek to understand others first; we are aware of potential conflict between rights and duties; we seek to resolve all conflicts with honesty and patience and without coercion.
PAC promotes high standards of fair play, productivity, promise-keeping and human values as our core business practices.
Privacy Policy
Primary Asset Consulting Pty Ltd is committed to protecting the privacy of all those with whom we deal.
PAC values the personal and corporate information provided to us and takes every reasonable precaution to protect and prevent unauthorised access to that information.
PAC complies with the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) contained in the Australian Federal Privacy Act 1988, and as amended (the Act). Our aim is to ensure that we comply with the NPPs that form the basis of laws passed to strengthen privacy protection for the general public.
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