Dave Warneke
Non-executive Chairman

Gavin Solsky
Chief Executive Officer

Gavin is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Portland Group. After completing a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) / Law Degree at UNSW, Gavin spent a short period at a major Australian law firm. He then joined the global strategic consulting firm, Bain & Co. where he worked for a number of years in Australia and the United States. He has successfully led the implementation of strategic supply chain and procurement improvement programmes with clients across all industry sectors.

Dave Gardiner
Managing Director - Consulting ANZ

Dave graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters Degree in Engineering. He started his career as an engineer with Shell Exploration & Production and thereafter enjoyed a 7-year career with Mars Europe. Dave held numerous change management roles in Supply Chain driving cross-cultural business unit initiatives (eg. supplier integration). Dave moved to Australia where he joined A.T Kearney, leading numerous ‘procurement transformation’ projects in the manufacturing, retail and services sectors. Dave joined Portland Group in 2002 and since then has led procurement improvement programmes with a number of large manufacturing and retail organisations.

Sue Woodall
Managing Director - Portland Procurement Services

Olaf Schatteman
Vice President Supply Chain Services

Olaf holds a Masters Degree in Business Economics from the Universities of Maastricht in the Netherlands and Seville in Spain. He joined Portland from Accenture where he was a senior member of the South East Asian (and previously European) Supply Chain practice. Olaf has extensive knowledge of Strategic Supply Chain Management, including network and logistics optimisation and supply chain planning, and significant experience in developing and implementing large-scale supply chain transformation strategies. Prior to his consulting career, Olaf worked for Philips at their global Headquarters. He has worked from bases in Europe and Asia Pacific in the consumer goods, pharmaceutical, hospitality, chemicals, communications, media, high tech, and airline industries.

Enrico Rizzon
Vice President Consulting

Kay-Meng Soh
Vice President Asia

David Rodgers
Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining Portand Group Dave worked for Accenture for 10 years in various finance roles in the UK and Australia. Dave has extensive experience of the financial management of consulting work in various industry sectors and has constructed and managed the commercial arrangements for business process outsourcing arrangements in Europe and Asia. Dave’s experience also includes setting up service centres and managing the delivery of IT and finance support from low cost locations. Dave is a Chartered Management Accountant and has a degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK.

Paul Millett
Director

Paul graduated from Sydney University with an Honours Degree in Engineering.He started his career as a manufacturing engineer with Dairy Farmers in Australia and moved for a time to Europe where he enjoyed a 5 year career with Mars Europe and 3 years with Accenture (UK) and WCI Group (UK). Within industry, Paul has managed change and efficiency projects (employing Lean Manufacturing techniques) on the shop floor and throughout the supply chain and has managed major capital projects. As a consultant in the UK and since 2004 in Australasia with the Portland Group, Paul has led numerous supply chain, procurement and operational improvement programmes for clients across most industry sectors.

Larry Klassen
Regional Manager - New Zealand

Larry graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent 20 years in electric power and natural gas utilities managing major capital projects and capital programs. Over the past seven years Larry has been involved in Procurement Improvement projects conducting strategic sourcing and managing sourcing programs and conducting negotiation workshops and training sessions. Strategic Procurement management has been across industries as diverse as pipelines, telecommunications, power distribution, banking, insurance, and forestry. Larry joined Portland Group in 2005 and since then has conducted procurement diagnostics, procurement programs, and negotiation training courses.

Clive Nielsen
Regional Manager - Perth

Clive is an experienced procurement professional with over 30 years involvement in engineering, procurement and management in the mining and minerals processing industries. He has held a variety of specialist and management purchasing positions including responsibility for the development of supplier relationship models and processes and the commercial management of a major global alliance relationship. Clive brings years of practical knowledge on how organisations interact both internally and externally and how high performance relationships are developed and managed on local, regional and global levels. More recently, he has provided independent expert consulting services in the fields of Alliancing, Supplier Relationship Management, Global Sourcing and e-procurement.

Mark Reynolds
Associate Director Sustainability

Mark has over 20 years experience in supply chain and manufacturing consulting, and now focuses on sustainability consulting. He initially worked as an industrial engineer in Australian manufacturing and engineering businesses, followed by three years on industry development projects in Indonesia. His consulting career has covered a wide range of industries - food and beverages, supermarket and general retailing, logistics, building products, chemicals, industrial gases, agriculture, automotive, telecommunications, electronics, aerospace, basic metals, pharmaceuticals and electrical products. Mark was a member of Accenture's supply chain leadership team in Australia from 1999 to 2006, when he decided to pursue a change of career into the field of sustainability. Mark holds Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and Master of Engineering (Electrical) degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Brendan Comas
Associate Director

Brendan holds an honours degree in Engineering from the University of Adelaide and completed his MBA at the Melbourne Business School. He began his career in mining in Tasmania then moved into the IT sector with numerous implementations of ERP systems, including 4 years with SAP. This exposed Brendan to almost every industry sector and included a rapid implementation of SAP for a multinational FMCG company in the UK. Brendan has over 10 years of procurement experience sourcing a range of goods (directs and indirects) and services. In a previous role he led the strategic procurement sourcing team for a leading Australian retailer with centralised non-merchandise procurement across all brands. In his time at Portland Group he has led several procurement projects including a transformational programme for a major player in the media sector.

Bruce Stevenson
Associate Director

Bruce holds an Engineering Degree from the University of Melbourne, and an MBA from Melbourne Business School. Bruce has over 10 years consulting experience focusing on strategic procurement and supply chain. He has previously worked at AT Kearney, and joined Portland Group in 2003, where he has worked across many industry sectors including construction, FMCG, heavy industrial, financial services, and retail. Prior to his consulting career, Bruce worked in engineering and construction, managing capital projects in the water services and environmental sector.