Our team has many years of combined experience in driving outcomes
John Battiston
John Battiston has led the team since we began earlier this century. He enjoys facilitating strategies for clients, and also specialises in advising clients on how best to source IT. Prior to founding Battiston Consulting he had a long career with KPMG Consulting, where in his last position he was responsible for their work in the Australian banking and finance industry, as well as the telecommunication and utility industries.
Alok Chakravarti
Alok has over 35 years’ experience in helping solve IT and business problems for world class organisations. Previously, he had a long career with NAB, where some of his more senior roles included General Manager, Core Banking Delivery and Divisional CIO for National Custodian Services. His NAB roles have ranged the full set of IT activities from program management to applications development and strategy formulation, including serving in senior roles in NAB’s NETXGEN transformation programs. Alok has also been an Associate Director at KPMG Consulting, and is now a Managing Consultant at Battiston Consulting.
Ken Fox
Ken Fox began his consulting career at KPMG Consulting in the late 1990’s, after a long career with Mobil Oil. At Mobil Oil he spent time in their finance division, their logistics/supply chain division, their marketing division, and ended up as their CIO for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. He really enjoys short and sharp business-orientated assignments, where he can deploy his pragmatic blend of experience, “get it done now” approach and his excellent sense of humour.
Jeff Magrath
Jeff Magrath joined KPMG Consulting as a graduate in 1985, leaving to join the Boston Consulting Group in 1996 as a business strategy consultant. He has also mixed his consulting work with several stints in executive line management, such as Executive eCommerce Manager at Navigator (now Aviva), as well as IT Strategy Manager at MLC. Jeff enjoys leading IT strategy work for clients, as well as helping ensure projects are “on time, on budget and to specification”. Jeff’s analytical thinking and likeability has endeared him to clients. Jeff has served as the General Manager of Battiston Consulting since 2004.
David Waterson
David enjoys working with clients to achieve the optimum outcome, whether it’s operating at the strategic level to facilitate organisational goals and objectives, or establishing and reviewing programs of initiatives to implement agreed strategy. Previously working at both ends of the spectrum in board, executive and program management roles, David brings a unique perspective of what it takes to turn strategy into successful outcomes. During his 30 year career, David has held executive level IT and business positions, as well as board positions with a focus on governance and compliance. He has also delivered a number of challenging projects.