Gary Linton | Managing Director
Gary is founder/Managing Director of Linton Howard with over 30 years’ experience successfully managing and growing a diverse range companies large and small. In addition to leading and running companies operating globally, including SAAB ITS, Greenspan Technology and Prospect Group, he has extensive management advisory experience in mining, construction, manufacturing, professional services, franchising, technology and start-ups. This experience spans Australasia, Asia, the Middle East Europe and USA.
As an experienced and successful Non-Exec Chairman, Director, CEO, Manager and Management Adviser he has assisted many companies become investment/exit ready and has executed numerous capital raisings, strategy plans, governance implementations, management restructures and senior executive recruitment assignments.
Over the past 5 years Gary has also served as Non-Exec Chairman of 4 commercial entities in IT, Education, Fintech and Construction, as well as being a Non-Executive Director of a NFP in the disability sector. He has been a mentor in the QUT Mentoring Scheme for 14 years, and is passionate about leadership, mentoring, strategy, positive psychology, governance and having a strong focus on the fundamentals of good business. In Linton Howard he combines this with his strong commercial experience across a broad range of industries, including commercial and contract negotiation, capital raising, acquisition and disposition of business, and driving profit improvement.
Guy Hamilton | Associate Director
Guy Hamilton is a proven industry leader in financial services and has held a range of Board, CEO, and Senior Executive Management roles in the industry. During a 35-year career with HSBC Group he lived and worked in 8 countries including Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and has held direct business responsibilities for activities across 15 countries. He has held multiple management roles associated with developing, or restructuring, businesses in 20+ countries covering segments from Consumer Finance through to Corporate and Institutional. He currently acts as an Advisor to the Board for 3 start-up / fast growth enterprises and sits on the Board of an Aged Care service provider, a Community Bank and also a substantial Consumer Retailer.
Guy is a regular guest lecturer on the Executive MBA program run by the Graduate Business School of Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of a book “10 Foundations of Success” written for SME’s. He has actively mentored 10 businesses over the past 24 months and provides senior executive coaching services on request.
Guy has written many strategy and business plans over his career covering global businesses to small start-ups. His core focus is on fast and effective commercialisation of business models and plans and ensuring business disciplines and best practices convert plans into executable actions which can deliver required results and success.
Kate Costello | Associate
Kate Costello is the Founder and Managing Director of Governance Matters Pty Ltd and widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts in her field.
A law graduate from the University of Melbourne, the inspiration for a career in governance came while working in management at a commercial law firm, where she discovered that many of the company directors she interacted with felt they needed assistance. They wanted to learn more about their duties and responsibilities and understand how they could better serve the organisations they represented at board level.
She has added enormous value to companies – either as a consultant or a director – by helping them to articulate a strategy, align business plans and measure outcomes. She has served as chair of Saab ITS and Bassett Consulting Engineers and held directorships at companies such as Integrated Research Ltd, The South Australian TAB, Festival City Broadcasters Ltd and Saab Systems Pty Ltd.
Kate, who currently holds directorships in LBT Innovation Ltd and Tech Project Pty Ltd and chairs Bzpay Pty Ltd and accounting firm Accru Harris Orchard, is also one of the most innovative people in her industry. She is recognised for devising new and enriching ways of imparting her considerable governance knowledge to her local and international client base.
Andrew Buckley | Associate
A Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Institution of Engineers Australia, Andrew has over 35 years as a senior executive, 17 of which were as Managing Director and CEO of Cardno Ltd. He was responsible for leading the organisation from a private company with a turnover of $14m and 187 employees in 1997 to being an ASX listed company with around 8000 staff and both a turnover and market capitalisation of over $1bn in 2014. Andrew has extensive expertise in mergers and acquisitions both in Australia and internationally, capital raising, and growing businesses from the ground up in highly competitive environments. Andrew also has a long history of involvement in bulk materials handling, mining and processing of minerals, and broad expertise in the area of civil, mechanical, and environmental engineering. Andrew also worked in the area of international development with AusAID, USAID, the World Bank and the Asian Development bank.
In recent times Andrew has taken on several specific Board roles including:
Non-Executive Chairman of Premise, a Queensland based full service consultancy that provides tailored solutions in Agriculture, Engineering, Environment and Water.
Executive Chairman of Muir Engineering, a company specialising in the manufacture of Windlasses and Anchoring systems for vessels from 5m to 150m. He is responsible for leading the Board and overseeing the CEO and management team in their execution of the management of the company.
Executive Chairman of CMI Ltd (2014 to 2016), responsible for leading and managing this ASX listed company including overseeing the electrical products division (CMI Minto) and the divestment of the automative products division (TJM – 4WD products).