People

ITN’s Principals and key personnel are experienced water industry practitioners with a minimum of 30 years experience.

Of equal value to our clients is our experience ‘on the other side of the fence’. John Davis and Greg Cashin have both held senior roles with major contractors prior to entering into consulting. This contracting experience is invaluable and is one of the key reasons we can offer practical contracting and commercial advice to out clients – the ability to provide this advice has been instrumental to our success as transaction managers and sets us apart from our competitors.

A brief overview of our key staff is included below.

John Davis

John Davis has over 35 years experience in the infrastructure delivery and contract services sector, with particular experience in infrastructure delivery, field services and facilities operation and maintenance contracts in water and waste management businesses. For the last ten years he has specialised in managing infrastructure and service delivery transactions using innovative and non traditional methods, and in contract risk management. He has been an invited speaker on alternative delivery mechanisms at a number of conferences, and led ‘master classes’ on this topic; and has developed specialist decision support tools to assist contract principals in this area.

Brad Cowan

Brad Cowan is a highly experienced executive manager in the provision and operation of water and wastewater services. His particular expertise, prior to commencing practice in broader management roles, was in the direct project and construction management of a broad range of water and wastewater schemes and treatment plants, including facilities with capacities from 30,000 to 900,000 EP. He has also completed business and project management studies. He was the second person recognised by the Australian Institute of Project Management as a Master Project Director.

More recently he has gained significant expertise in Alliance project facilitation and relationship coaching and facilitation; and in facilitating the closely related relationship contracting practice of partnering on conventional contract infrastructure projects and O&M services.

Davin Shellshear

Davin Shellshear has over 40 years professional engineering experience including over 20 years with Australia’s largest local government integrated water utility, Brisbane Water. Davin has extensive experience in the management of water utilities, the transitioning of water utilities from traditional public sector structures to efficient, competitive and well-governed market economy organisations, and the reform of the water industry in Australia through performance and competitive regulation. Over his 20 years in Brisbane Water, Davin Shellshear was responsible for all civil, mechanical and electrical Operation and Maintenance of Brisbane Water’s water and sewerage assets.

From 2001 to 2005, Davin provided specialist consultancy and advice in water and sewerage utility operation, from regulation to service delivery. From 2001 to 2003 he project managed two large outsourced operations and maintenance contracts for the Municipality of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Subsequently he has worked in Timor, India and Mozambique on a range of projects including the establishment of Government regulatory regimes, tariff setting, demand management, review of outsourced O&M service provision, the performance management of State provided O&M Services in the water industry.

 
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