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Tony Histon
Australia’s biggest professional services firm PwC is quickly expanding its energy transition team, with two new partners taking the four-month-old division to 160 people.
Tony Histon joins the partnership from rival Accenture, where he was managing director of energy transmission and distribution for Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East for 14 years.
There, he specialised in energy strategy and business transformation advice. Before that, he worked in engineering, business development and management roles at Ausgrid.
Toby Kent is also joining PwC as a partner in its energy transition team, as which he will also be PwC Private’s ESG lead.
Toby Kent
It’s a boomerang move for Kent, who worked in a senior role for PwC’s sustainability team in the UK and led its sustainability and climate change team in Hong Kong.
He has also worked for ANZ as global head of sustainable development and as the City of Melbourne’s chief resilience officer as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program. His most recent role was as co-founder and managing director of sustainability advisory firm ResilientCo Consulting.
Kristie Schubert
Lawyer Kristie Schubert has rejoined KPMG as a partner in its tax dispute resolution and controversy practice last week, having formerly worked at the firm in both the UK and Australia.
She leaves national law firm HBL Ebsworth where she was a tax partner for one year. She has also worked at the Australian Taxation Office as senior litigator and in-house as a tax adviser.
National accounting firm BDO has also been busy, adding three new partners to its ranks in the past fortnight.
Peter Tracey has come aboard as a business services partner in Sydney, leaving his role as the lead partner of KPMG’s Penrith office.
He will give business and tax advice to small and mid-market organisations across sectors as varied as manufacturing, food and beverage, medical and real estate.
Peter Tracey
Tracey is currently a director of several charities and not-for-profits including the Adam Crouch Foundation Limited, Thorndale Limited, and the Royce Simmons Foundation.
Eleanor Moffat has also joined BDO as a business services partner in its Melbourne office, coming from rival accounting firm Pitcher Partners where she was a director for family office services.
Eleanor Moffat
At BDO, Moffat will work for family office clients and give finance and tax advice to family businesses.
Finally, the firm is continuing to build out its project and infrastructure advice business, with Sydney’s Steven Kastanias becoming the fifth new partner to join the division in the past year.
Kastanias joins BDO from Leighton Contractors Infrastructure Investments (now Pacific Partnerships), and also has experience at the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance (Partnerships Victoria) and EY.
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