Gerhard Vorster

Gerhard is the Managing Director of Quidni Advisory, a boutique strategy advisory firm. Working directly with boards and senior leaders, Gerhard guides businesses to reposition them in pragmatic yet unexpected ways.

Previously, Gerhard was the Chief Strategy Officer for Deloitte Australia and Asia-Pacific, a position he held for five years.

Prior to that Gerhard was the Managing Partner (Consulting) for the South African, East Asian, Australian and Asia-Pacific practice regions. He has broad sector experience with a specific focus on growth, innovation, technology and leadership. He is published widely on these topics.

Gerhard trained and practised as a professional engineer and spent some time at an investment bank prior to joining Deloitte in 1987. In addition to his MBA he also completed several executive education programs at Harvard, Stanford, Kellogg, INSEAD, IESE and IMD. Gerhard is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Bio Capital Impact Fund, a member of the Advisory Board of Intersective, a Director of Seeing Machines Limited and the Patron of Good Design Australia. He was a Director of Georgiou Group and also the inaugural Chairman of the RMIT University College of Business Advisory Board.