Partners
KPMG is a leading professional services firm in Australia dedicated to working with businesses across a diverse range, including; start-ups, not for profits, family businesses, international subsidiaries, government entities and ASX listed companies of all sizes. As part of the global KPMG network providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services, KPMG Enterprise and Deal Advisory provide a full range of services tailored to meet the unique needs of businesses of all sizes in Australia across a wide range of industries and sectors.
Today’s deals do not happen in a vacuum. At KPMG, we think like an investor, looking at how opportunities to buy, sell, fix, fund or partner to add and preserve value. From business strategy to acquisition strategy, working through plans for divestments and raising funds, or even understanding the need to restructure, every decision must be made in light of your entire business life cycle, your sector, and the global economy.
2020 Exchange works closely with KPMG to provide members with insights that deliver real results by accessing its global network and local integrated specialists. KPMG shares common values with 2020 and is a purpose led organisation, with a vision to be the clear choice with our clients, our people and to engender public trust.
An initiative of K&L Gates Lawyers, launched in 2012, the Australian Growth Company Awards celebrate excellence in the mid-market. They recognise companies that demonstrate high rates of growth, as well as innovation, integrity, contribution to community and sustainable growth.
Carnival Australia is the largest cruise ship operator in Australasia and a division of Carnival Corporation. As the world’s largest cruise ship operator and owner of iconic brands such as P&O, Princess, Aida, Cunard, Holland America and Seabourn, cruising in Australia has experienced double digit growth year on year since 2007 under the guidance of CEO Ann Sherry AO.
2020 works closely with Carnival Australia to offer 2020 members ‘once in a lifetime’ experiences on board some of the world’s most prestigious ships such as the Queen Mary 2. It is the leadership at the helm of these ships and organisation that inspires 2020 members to look outside of their industries to grow.
MEET OUR PEOPLE
David Kelynack
Chief Executive
"Leadership is the ability to influence and yield harmoniously the desired outcome and by placing our emphasis... on people, to develop trust and to ask the right question to elicit the story, we open up our minds to new possibilities.
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Graham Bradley AM
"Nurture disruptive challenge in your business by reviewing innovation & productivity."
Read moreAnn Sherry AO
"Be a leader who is prepared to take risks... a leader with certainty who is prepared to back themselves, then people will follow."
Read moreDon Peppers
"Proactive honesty and flawless execution is the key to unlocking long-term profits"
Read moreIan Elliot
"Profit and culture are friends not adversaries. You don’t have to choose between happy staff and happy shareholders. One feeds the other."
Read morePeter Stirling Benson
"“I believe great leadership emanates from the four ‘E’s. Personal energy, an ability to energise others, applying an edge to all decision-making and championing the importance of superb execution.”"
Read moreHolly Kramer
"People and culture are critical to business success, especially in the face of challenging business conditions"
Read moreMegan Foster
"“The most effective leaders are those with one particular key attribute, that of self-awareness. Great leaders know their strengths and weaknesses. They play to their strengths. They are aware of the executive shadow they cast and the impact it has on the people that surround them.”"
Read moreÜmit Subaşı
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
- Sun Tzu"
Andrew Scipione APM
"Power is not leadership, it is humility and performance that set you apart from the pack."
Read morePeter Griffith
"The mind that has the problem usually has the solution – it’s just waiting for the right question."
Read moreMichael Pascoe
"The difference between leadership & management has become a cliché, but that hasn’t closed the gap. 2020 is that leap into pure leadership."
Read moreKevin Moore
"If your business isn’t growing, then it’s dying. You just don’t yet know the date that it will fail."
Read moreMark Elliott
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Remo Giuffre
"Effective leadership calls for general thinking and the pursuit of diversity."
Read moreGordon Galt
"Good people are the best resource you can have in the mining or any other industry."
Read moreStephe Wilks
"Great leaders listen, synthesise and act. Sure, they’re expert in their fields, and they have great ancillary skills to match that expertise, but - crucially - they need to see the world around them with broader eyes than just their own; and then craft that broader knowledge into actions that yield real progress…"
Read moreMark Webster
"There are only two directions you can move in business and life, forwards or backwards. If you are standing still or resisting change – you are actually going backwards as others will inevitably be going forward."
Read moreDavid Mortimer AO
"Be a leader who believes in creative, imaginative responses to shape the future of business."
Read moreJohn O'Neill AO
"A circuit breaker will shift culture... make the tough decisions early on."
Read moreJohn Cracknell
"Create a world class team that assists you to rise to the challenges of your industry."
Read moreVaughn Richtor
"The challenge I see for leaders is to encourage people to take advantage of the opportunities they now have to learn more, take on more accountability, make more decisions and get involved in things which they may not have had the chance to before. Give people “the right to fix”."
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