Adelaide-based digital and enterprise enchancment consultancy Bailey Abbott has expanded into Western Australia, with Glen Appleton introduced in to steer the rising staff as managing director.
Having beforehand flagged its intentions towards nationwide enlargement, the Covid-era based boutique has now made good on step one of that promise by launching a brand new workplace in Perth, led by one-time Telstra Purple normal supervisor Glen Appleton.
Appleton joined the staff to determine the brand new workplace on the finish of final 12 months, with Bailey Abbott since including Gerard McCarthy and Ang Emery as principal consultants amongst its different native recruits, the previous becoming a member of from Pioneer Credit score and the latter from NRI.
“Bailey Abbott’s success is constructed off a powerful native, customer-centric strategy to consulting,” the agency said. “With our hands-on, extremely skilled staff, we’re right here to assist WA organisations navigate digital transformation and knowledge intelligence with sensible, tailor-made options which are constructed on native enterprise necessities, not only a templated, rubber-stamped strategy.”
Led by CEO Thomas Carlton, an ex-ASG govt, Bailey Abbott sprung out of the Covid-19 disaster in 2020 with a view in the direction of capitalising on the highest expertise discarded by different consultancies amid the uncertainty, and has since grown its headcount from its 4 authentic co-founders to a staff of someplace across the 100-mark after its humble beginnings within the Adelaide Hills.
Collectively, the Bailey Abbott staff serves purchasers throughout a variety of industries, together with the federal government, defence, power, finance, transport, manufacturing and retail sectors amongst others, in areas equivalent to digital technique & transformation, enterprise & expertise advisory, and now IT service administration, by a recent partnership with organisational design consultancy HIT World.
The agency additionally has different prongs, with digital healthcare sector advisory Digivate Well being and cybersecurity & threat outfit Bastion Know-how Companies now below the Bailey Abbott umbrella and dealing in tandem to unfold their mixed experience to each the WA and Victorian markets, whereas the agency has additionally been accepted as a member of the federal authorities’s BuyICT Panel.
And the push throughout the Nullarbor is already paying dividends, with Bailey Abbott having landed no less than one sizeable contract since launching in Perth in latest months, described as a venture to assist a big WA organisation with exploring an improve to their enterprise intelligence platform, tapping into the experience of Telstra Purple senior knowledge guide recruit James Baverstock.
Additionally a knowledge intelligence professional, fellow native recruit Gerard McCarthy kicked off his profession as an audit graduate at EY in 2007 earlier than shifting into the monetary providers sector in roles with Bankwest, iiNet and Pioneer Credit score, whereas Ang Emery had been with NRI for one of the best a part of a decade and a half earlier than becoming a member of in March, most lately as a “consulting expertise supervisor”.
Again to WA
In the meantime, WA managing director Glen Appleton, who joined Bailey Abbott on the finish of final 12 months after a interval as an impartial gross sales guide following greater than a decade in senior enterprise growth and gross sales roles at Telstra Purple and its earlier acquisition Readify, mentioned of the agency’s transfer into the resource-rich state;
“It’s an thrilling chapter for each myself and the corporate. Each Adelaide and Perth share a powerful sense of group, and a deal with native progress and a various vary of industries. However we’re not simply bringing a model to Perth. We’re constructing an area staff that embodies the identical values which have pushed our success in South Australia, as locals supporting locals.”
