Hamish Ride

Hamish has worked with private and public sector clients in Australia and the United Kingdom. He has experience in education, water, energy, finance and government sectors.

Project experience

Business advice in complex regulatory environments

• Worked with a peak body in the education and training industry to refine its policy agenda and identified steps to better influence reform
• Provided advice to a university on a business case to establish a new campus for 5000 students
• Worked with a major energy generator to identify strategies to compete more effectively in the electricity market
• Developed a business case for a large budget and financial management system for a state government.

Service delivery strategies and design

• Specified business processes for a large water utility in the United Kingdom, in compliance with a new market framework to introduce competition for services to business customers
• Developed a standardised project management methodology for a Victorian Government department based on PRINCE2
• Developed a service led IT strategy for a state government department
• Reviewed business processes for a gas utility in the United Kingdom to improve the quality of penalty payment data.

Strategy optimisation

• Conducted a review of the strategy execution capability over the last five years for an international engineering firm and provided recommendations for improvement
• Developed an innovative best practice framework for people management, including strategic workforce planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, resource allocation and career planning
• Developed a dynamic model for a leading Australian bank that illustrates different banker propositions and their associated effects on workforce and revenue
• Defined a modern governance structure and supported a newly formed board in its operations, including the introduction of a balanced scorecard to focus their efforts.

Education / accreditation / board membership

• Postgraduate Diploma in Management (awarded the Melbourne Business School Foundation Prize for outstanding academic achievement), Melbourne Business School.
• Bachelor of Public Policy and Management (Honours), University of Melbourne
• Bachelor of Economics, University of Tasmania
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Tasmania

Past employment

Prior to Nous, Hamish held various roles in government and the private sector. His most recent role was with a state central agency where he provided business analysis for the procurement phase of a budgeting and financial management system.

Interests

Hamish has a keen interest in sports, particularly underwater hockey and cycling, although if it is a sport, he will generally follow it. He has travelled extensively throughout Europe and is now looking forward to exploring Asia.