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Marius van der Merwe

Marius serves as the Executive Director within the Business Advisory and Assurance team at Pitcher Partners Perth. With over 20 years of experience as a chartered accountant in a professional practice environment, Marius brings extensive expertise across a full spectrum of business advisory services to his clients. His qualifications and experience provide clients with the […]

Pitcher Partners names new partners as audit practice expands

Pitcher Partners Sydney is bolstering its auditing capacity with two key partner appointments, as the firm looks to cater to clients seeking alternatives to the big four accounting firms. Newly appointed audit partners Maya Sutanto and Nathan Balban add more than five decades of audit and advisory experience to Pitcher Partners’ Sydney firm. Ms Sutanto […]

New partner to bring innovation focus to Pitcher Partners Perth

The Pitcher Partners network has added its third new audit partner in less than a month, as the national accounting and advisory firm seeks to supercharge its capabilities in data analytics. Marius van der Merwe is set to join the Perth office of Pitcher Partners as its Executive Director of Business Advisory and Assurance, bringing […]

Nathan Balban

Nathan has extensive experience in audit and corporate advisory services, with strong technical-accounting expertise, financial literacy and commercial acumen, across broad industry sectors including retail, manufacturing and consumer business. This expertise was predominantly gained while working in Big 4 accounting firms. Strategically focused and skilled in providing insight and advice to C-Suite executives, Boards and […]

Jake Hadfield

Jake has over 19 years’ experience working across a wide range of entities and sectors, including conducting statutory external audits, agreed upon procedures, grant acquittals and other assurance engagements for medium to large private businesses, international subsidiaries and not-for-profit (NFP) entities. As a member of our NFP specialisation, Jake currently provides services to a wide […]

Richard King

Richard’s proactive approach to client service allows him to build collaborative, long-term relationships that drive tangible outcomes. His clear and open communication together with his strong sense of integrity and work ethic ensures he is a trusted advisor. His commitment to understanding his client’s objectives through open and clear communication helps to drive commercial outcomes. […]

Michael Liprino

As a chartered accountant with over 12 years of professional practice experience, Michael provides his clients with extensive expertise across a full range of business advisory services. Throughout his career, Michael has overseen the assurance engagements for a number of iron ore, gold, nickel and copper mining operations across Australia. Michael is also a trusted […]

Shaun Mahony

Shaun specialises in audit and other assurance services for large public and private companies including buy-side and sell-side due diligence, deal advice and a range of business advisory roles including ASX listing for public companies and large turnover private businesses. He works with businesses with turnover between $5 to $100 million providing his clients with […]

Kirsty Porteous

Kirsty is a highly experienced accountant and strategic business planner who has worked with Boards, senior management, business owners and leaders across a range of industries for almost 30 years. Understanding that the accounting business today is no longer merely about number crunching, Kirsty provides a holistic service that builds success and profitability based on […]

Andrew Robin

Andrew joined Pitcher Partners in 2020 following 13 years with Deloitte. The opportunity to grow professionally alongside established clients whilst actively building new business relationships drew Andrew to Pitcher Partners. He became a partner of the Brisbane firm in 2021.  As a trusted advisor, Andrew works proactively with organisations to ensure their compliance obligations are […]

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