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Brian is the Chairman of SEC Newgate Australia, having previously served as its founding Managing Partner since it’s establishment in 2013. He is head of APAC region and Global Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SEC Newgate S.p.A, the parent company of SEC Newgate Australia. He is also a co-founder of SEC Newgate Research.

In a consulting career spanning over two decades, Brian has come to be regarded as one of Australia’s leading communications practitioners with expertise in strategic crisis and issues management, financial transactions, government relations, media management and community campaigns.

Brian has led several high profile and complex crisis and public affairs campaigns and financial transactions in the infrastructure, transport, banking, energy, agriculture, arts, media, and sports sectors.

Brian is a Director of AFL Club the Sydney Swans, the Committee for Sydney, SEC Newgate S.p.A and the Clontarf Foundation, which supports educational opportunities for young Indigenous Australians.

Prior to consulting, Brian was a political adviser to the New South Wales Government. He started his career as a journalist with The Land newspaper.