Kirsty Hunter (Kirst)
Principal
Bachelor of Commerce - University of Queensland
Bachelor of Economics - University of Queensland
Chartered Accountant (CA) - Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA)
ICAA Public Practitioner (# 45988)
Australian Taxation Office BAS Agent (# 98396000)
Xero Certified Advisor
Kirsty’s business experience extends to over ten years in Australia and the UK and has been focused on the property and tourism industries. Her accounting career began at Price Waterhouse Coopers providing financial, management and taxation advice to large public and privately owned corporations. Since leaving the public practice arena, Kirsty has worked in senior finance roles for many businesses in south east Queensland including wotif.com, the Seymour Group, the Juniper Group, and Ariadne Australia. Kirsty’s most recent role was General Manager – Finance for wotif.com which involved building and managing financial reporting systems, software and people from a small start up company through to a publicly listed entity with over $900m in turnover. Kirsty now specializes in working with organisations to develop their finance teams, functions and strategies. She also assists businesses to move to the next level and meet their strategic goals.
Andrew Groom (Groomy)
Whipcracker
Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical
Grad Cert in Mgt
Masters in ABus
Andrew began his career in process engineering working for a range of multinational manufacturing and EPC private and public companies in Australia and abroad before moving into both project and manufacturing management. He enjoys manufacturing particularly around creating physical products and value creation. Having previously been an engineer he also likes to see a plan with goals, which is particularly handy. He loves a business owner with passion and purpose and believes there's no greater reward than assisting this kind of venture succeed. His focus is either, general business consulting, weird business "stuff", his words not mine, and ensuring the expectations of clients are being met. He has a strong understanding of human resource related issues and is often an ear to run varied scenarios by for both clients and myself. If he doesn't know something, he's also driven by a mix of curiosity and frustration (that he didn't know something) that he'll find it out or find someone that does. When he's not doing that he can be found at basketball, on a mountain bike or at the family farm, Hampton Blue Organic Blueberry farm.
Principal
Bachelor of Commerce - University of Queensland
Bachelor of Economics - University of Queensland
Chartered Accountant (CA) - Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA)
ICAA Public Practitioner (# 45988)
Australian Taxation Office BAS Agent (# 98396000)
Xero Certified Advisor
Kirsty’s business experience extends to over ten years in Australia and the UK and has been focused on the property and tourism industries. Her accounting career began at Price Waterhouse Coopers providing financial, management and taxation advice to large public and privately owned corporations. Since leaving the public practice arena, Kirsty has worked in senior finance roles for many businesses in south east Queensland including wotif.com, the Seymour Group, the Juniper Group, and Ariadne Australia. Kirsty’s most recent role was General Manager – Finance for wotif.com which involved building and managing financial reporting systems, software and people from a small start up company through to a publicly listed entity with over $900m in turnover. Kirsty now specializes in working with organisations to develop their finance teams, functions and strategies. She also assists businesses to move to the next level and meet their strategic goals.
Andrew Groom (Groomy)
Whipcracker
Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical
Grad Cert in Mgt
Masters in ABus
Andrew began his career in process engineering working for a range of multinational manufacturing and EPC private and public companies in Australia and abroad before moving into both project and manufacturing management. He enjoys manufacturing particularly around creating physical products and value creation. Having previously been an engineer he also likes to see a plan with goals, which is particularly handy. He loves a business owner with passion and purpose and believes there's no greater reward than assisting this kind of venture succeed. His focus is either, general business consulting, weird business "stuff", his words not mine, and ensuring the expectations of clients are being met. He has a strong understanding of human resource related issues and is often an ear to run varied scenarios by for both clients and myself. If he doesn't know something, he's also driven by a mix of curiosity and frustration (that he didn't know something) that he'll find it out or find someone that does. When he's not doing that he can be found at basketball, on a mountain bike or at the family farm, Hampton Blue Organic Blueberry farm.