Fortis Lead Director for Education and Training, Mary Gurgone (BA, THC, Grad Dip Business, MBA) provides strategic research and policy advice to clients in the education and training sector. Key areas of focus include skill development to address the needs of the changing demographics and facilitating change and improvements to strategic directions, policy, research and practice. Her public sector experience spans education, training, audit, market research and evaluation and policy roles. In the private sector she has held senior consultancy roles, delivering programs at local and international levels. Mary has also recently worked as a Director at a TAFE college and Director of Policy and Planning at the Department for Communities, along with holding a number of Chairperson and Board roles.

Fortis Managing Director and Lead Director of Finance Solutions, Adrian Gurgone (Chartered Accountant, MBA, Master of Accounting, GAICD), has held senior roles for Deloitte Consulting in Australia and Ineum Consulting, a top-tier boutique financial consulting firm in the UK. Adrian has significant consulting and blue-chip experience both in Australia and globally. He has provided consulting advice to senior executives in some of the largest companies, government agencies and academic institutions globally. Projects he has led have encompassed the CFO value chain and investment analysis.  He has successfully project managed dozens of projects and conducted several analyses. Furthermore Adrian lectures for a top-ranking Australian MBA programat Curtin University.