Meet the minds behind Sixfootfour. Committed to 'helping organisations be better'.

Garth Holloway (Managing Director)

Garth Holloway is a professional business management consultant with over 18 years of local & international consulting experience gained through working for large companies such as Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), System Software Associates (SSA), IBM Consulting Group and the Proudfoot management consultancy. He has also held a Directorship with Absolute Information Asia Pacific Pty Ltd.

He has successfully established, built and sold a business consultancy that focused on business process reengineering. As part of this journey he developed best practice methodologies that still lead the market today.

He has a wealth of experience in the sale and delivery of consulting engagements and communicates effectively at boardroom level. He has sold and led engagements in most industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, mining, retail, financial, engineering, FMCG, administration and customer service environments.

His core strengths include:

• Strategic thinking and planning
• Business transformation including business process reengineering
• Developing information strategies
• New product development
• Team leadership
• Business development
• Building partner relationships

Garth holds a Bachelors degree in Economics and an MBA from Macquarie University (2003).

Mark Southey (Associate Director)

Mark is a board level executive with expertise in creating, leading and commercialising all aspects of business and driving operational efficiencies across a range of industry types.  He has a strong track record fusing hands on operational management skills, world-class consulting background, and technical acumen to resolve organisational inefficiencies, revenue downturns, and cultural barriers.  Mark seizes new opportunities and heads large-scale, business-critical initiatives.  His particular strengths include strategic planning, building business plans, stakeholder engagement, risk management and corporate governance.  He has broad experience with both smaller start-ups, Government Agencies as well as tier 1 global businesses and excels in negotiations, C-level relationship building, process re-engineering, people management, and P&L control. 

Mark has a significant focus on the asset intensive, heavy industrial & mining industries having held hands on operational roles ranging from Mine Manager, Chemist/Metallurgist, Workshop and Maintenance Manager, Production and Shipping Manager, International Coal Marketing, General Manager (direct Board and P&L reporting), Greenfield site construction and commissioning.  In recent years he has focused on public sector clients taking them through major transitions. 

Over the past 17 years Mark has developed a strong and proven background in consulting and solution delivery to blue chip mining and industrial clients and has held a number of executive level roles in the IT & Management Consultancy arenas at Australia/New Zealand, Asia Pacific and Global levels.. Prior to this Mark had over a decade of operational experience to Executive level in the mining industry in multiple roles ranging from junior staff roles through to direct Board reporting and being accountable for the start-up of 3 greenfield mining operations. Mark has worked for a number of Tier One Consultancies including IBM, Oracle Corp, Cap Gemini and Deloitte Consulting holding roles as Partener and Senior Vice President. His clients have included Blue Chip companies such as Qantas; RAAF; NSW Treasury; NSW DSTA; Santos; BHP; Rio Tinto; VISY; Reliance.

• He has worked with senior executives in organisations across multiple industries in all aspects of:
  
  * Large scale business transformations and improvements
  * Business strategy and change programs
  * Organisational restructuring, cost cutting and process optimisation
  * Application/ERP and package solutions
  * Creation of shared services centres,outsourcing and support 
  * Large scale system selections, business case preparation and systems implementations
  * Supply chain and sourcing solutions
  * Interim Executive Management.

The associates

Our model is to work with and through associates each of whom are specialist in their discipline. These staff are available to provide traditional consulting services or to take on roles as interim managers within the clients business. Once we understand your specific requirements, then we will provide you with detailed biographies of relevant staff.

It is important to note, that we do not believe in relying on our 'last experience' to know how to deliver the next project. Rather, all staff deployed on consulting engagements are trained in the Sixfootfour methodology and have the full support of the entire team behind them. This means that project outcomes are auditable and staff can be interchanged if the situation requires.