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Gerry Tuddenham
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Gerry is the founder of and a major shareholder in CPT. He has more than 30 years experience in IT consulting and is a hands-on technologist with a reputation for delivering practical solutions. Gerry is widely known as a technical specialist in performance tuning, capacity planning and testing in IBM mainframes, with additional expertise in expert systems, transaction processors, middleware and database management systems.
Gerry was the lead developer of the Expetune and Expetest utilities, which automate a number of intricate tuning and testing activities. He has worked internationally in a broad range of industries, with a focus on financial services and telecommunications.
Peter Wright
Executive Director
Peter is the leader of CPT’s management consulting group, and the founder of this practice at CPT. He has more than 30 years experience in consulting and IT management, from his early days as a computer science practitioner through a successful career at several international consulting firms. This experience gives him a unique perspective on the business, fuelled by a passion for effective IT management through the application of best practice principles.
Before coming to CPT, Peter was the national managing principal for applications outsourcing at IBM Global Services, as well as a consulting director and vice president at DMR Consulting. At DMR, Peter had responsibility for the Systems Delivery and Maintenance Service practice. He has also worked for numerous clients in banking, transportation and government.
Fred Grimwade
Non-Executive Chairman
Fred chairs CPT’s Finance and Audit Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee. He is an executive director of Fawkner Capital, and was Managing Director of the Colonial Agricultural Company, one of Australia's largest beef producers, from 1998 to 2006. He is also a non executive director of AWB Limited.
Fred began his professional career as a commercial lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and later worked with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and in Sydney. He also served as Company Secretary and General Manager for Shareholder Relations at Western Mining Corporation. In 1996, he joined Colonial Mutual as Group Company Secretary and General Manager for Legal Affairs. He subsequently became Head of Private Capital for Colonial First State Investments, one of Australia's largest fund managers, where he planned and managed the Group's entry into the private equity market.
Fred is a senior fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) and was its joint president from 2005 to 2006. He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of Chartered Secretaries Australia.
Alan Baxter
Non-Executive Director
Alan is a member of CPT’s Finance and Audit Committee and also chairs the Remuneration Committee. He has a strong record of leading profitable growth initiatives, possessing a unique blend of business development skills, commercial acumen and technology expertise.
Alan has some 40 years experience across all facets of the IT services industry and has held a number of senior executive roles at IBM and Unisys before his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of DMR Consulting (Asia Pacific). He subsequently moved to London where he became Chief Operating Officer of Fujitsu Consulting (formerly DMR Consulting). On his return to Australia he was appointed non-executive chairman of Fujitsu Australia, a role from which he retired in 2006. He was a non-executive director of Mincom and is currently a non-executive director of Integrated Research and chairman of the Advisory Board of the School of Business Systems in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Sydney.
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