It’s honest to say former Melbourne-based Pitcher Companions company finance strategist Ryan Piper has had a busy couple months, packing his luggage for London as Morison’s new world CEO.
Fashioned in 2016 by the merger of Morison and KS Worldwide, Morison World is among the world’s largest accounting and consulting associations, with greater than 150 members unfold throughout 70-plus nations worldwide.
Since being appointed as world CEO in June, Piper has engaged with greater than a 3rd of these members already, which is considerably of a life-style upheaval after spending the previous two years within the Melbourne workplace of Pitcher Companions.
Piper isn’t nonetheless unfamiliar with the worldwide stage, having beforehand spent a decade with Grant Thornton in the UK, Bermuda and Singapore – the latter the place he served as head of company growth and finance – earlier than happening to affix Baker Tilly for 5 years within the city-state as worldwide technique director forward of his stint with Pitcher Companions in Melbourne.
“I’m trying ahead to working with the prolonged Morison household as we take the affiliation ahead,” Piper stated upon his appointment. “It’s a privilege to work with a world affiliation of such standing, and as we establish our new bottom-up technique to construct on our relevance within the career, I’m energised by the chance to listen to and amplify our collective voice and shopper and folks improvements.”
Morison World members final 12 months introduced in mixed revenues of near $1 billion, touchdown the affiliation a high ten spot within the Worldwide Accounting Bulletin’s (IAB) annual world rankings. Two of these members are based mostly in Australia, the Leebridge Group in Melbourne and Sydney’s Hayes Knight, which have each been in enterprise for greater than 40 years.
Piper has taken over from former Deloitte associate Kenny Younger (based mostly in Singapore), who was appointed to the CEO position in 2021 after a interval of turbulence following the departure of inaugural CEO Liza Robbins for Kreston World. Her successor, trade outsider Amanda Lengthy, lasted lower than 9 months, earlier than Memoria Lewis took over for a two-year stint and oversaw a model refresh.
The affiliation has additionally since rebadged from Morison KSi, and is now looking for to achieve additional momentum and floor on the likes of Praxity, Allinial and PrimeGlobal, the world’s three largest organisations of their form. World chair Paul Wan cited Piper’s experience in agency technique, commerciality, and sustainable progress as key to guiding Morison by its subsequent chapter.
