David Barnes

Background

About David Barnes

In my role as Managing Director - Sustaining Capital for global engineering, design and advisory company Aurecon, I am focused on developing our capacity to help client's in planning and delivering asset capital re-investment into maintaining and optimising their existing asset base. The effective deployment of capital is critical to asset intensive organisations, but many struggle to manage its’ complexities which is where Aurecon can help. Our aspiration is to form long term, enduring partnerships with asset intensive clients to help them make the right investment decisions that let them realise the full potential of their existing asset base. Through our integrated advisory and engineering model, we already have the capabilities to delivery this service and differentiate ourselves from the competition. I am an inclusive, dynamic and entrepreneurial leader with more than 32 years’ experience working in diverse roles spanning client engagement, business transformation, acquisition and operations, program/project management and delivery, and capability development. I’m highly collaborative and value strong relationships as a way of creating successful high performing organisations. My specialties include: team leadership, program and portfolio investment delivery, strategy development, stakeholder management, and program/portfolio management among others.