Staff

Richard IVEYRichard IVEY

Richard is founder of Ivey ATP and now Principal of WHK Ivey. Richard has qualifications and expertise in accounting and agriculture, and practises as a chartered accountant and consultant. His special areas of expertise include forensic and taxation accounting, profitability assessment and analysis, and business management.

Alison O'BRIENAlison O'BRIEN

Alison is a chartered accountant and is the manager responsible for the provision of financial and taxation services to the firm's clients. She has considerable skills in all aspects of management, taxation and succession planning issues.

Peter TREMAINPeter TREMAIN

Peter is a principal consultant at WHK Ivey. Peter has exceptional skills and experience in business analysis, loss assessment, farm management techniques, the application of information technology, and economic analysis. He has considerable experience as an expert witness, agronomist and in report preparation.

Andrew RICEAndrew RICE

Andrew is a senior consultant, having worked both in the Wellington and Parkes offices. While in Wellington, he worked closely with other consulting staff on a variety of economic loss assessments, regional economic studies, natural resource management studies and farm management consulting jobs. Based in Parkes, Andrew uses his specialist skills in crop and pasture agronomy, farm performance analysis and management planning.

Rowena HUTCHINSONRowena HUTCHINSON

Rowena is a consultant at WHK Ivey and is a graduate of the University of New England, completing a Bachelor of Agriculture specialising in Animal Science. Her main interests and skills are in animal production, mapping, economic assessment and whole farm management.

Tracee RUSHTONTracee RUSHTON

Tracee has joined our firm as Office Manager. She organizes and controls the activities of the office, including administrative systems and office personnel.

Leanne COLLINSLeanne COLLINS

Leanne joined the Team in September 2006 as Accounting Compliance Supervisor and has since commenced a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Degree with CSU. She has brought with her a wealth of experience and knowledge of computer based accounting packages and office management systems. Leanne supervises the workflow of the accounting team and assists with the processing of our clients' taxation and accounting matters.

Talia PAYNETalia PAYNE

Talia commenced with WHK Ivey in 2006 and joined the Accounting Compliance team in early 2007 as a cadet accountant. She is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Business at Charles Sturt University.

Trish BOURKETrish BOURKE

Trish joined our team in 2001, bringing considerable skills in word processing, spreadsheets, electronic data and communications. She is responsible for report presentation and other word processing functions in hard copy and electronic format. Trish also assists with the production of the firm's accounts and data entry for our litigation, accounting and consulting clients.

Kylie ROBINSONKylie ROBINSON

Kylie started at WHK Ivey as our Junior Clerical Officer and has worked her way up to Records Manager. Kylie is now responsible for the day to day management of our filing systems as well as the maintenance and management of our records and archives. Kylie is also likely to answer your telephone calls, or greet you at the front office.

Kelly GLEESONKelly GLEESON

Kelly is our Senior Clerical Officer and is a relatively new member of our team. She has an extensive background in Administration and is responsible for producing the firm's accounts, as well as providing secretarial and technical support to the office. Kelly will generally be the friendly voice that answers your telephone calls.

Associates

Dr Suzanne WILSON

Developing methodologies for quantifying the full nature and costs of dryland salinity has dominated Suzanne's professional career for the past 10 years. Suzanne has completed a PhD in natural resource economics and has been involved with numerous studies that investigated the nature and cost of soil salinity, acidity and sodicity. These studies quantified the costs to various sectors of the community including local governments, government agencies, public utilities, businesses, households and farmers.

Suzanne has worked with WHK Ivey on a number of natural resource studies and was a pivotal part of the MDBC and LWRRDC funded project entitled "Determining the Costs of Dryland Salinity across the Murray-Darling Basin".