Tarquin Ralph

After studying Physics, Tarquin Ralph worked building online banking systems before becoming the Marketing Manager of an Australian bank where he completed his MBA. He then spent time at two large international Advertising Agencies as Strategy Director. In the early nineties he moved to Canberra and into Management Consulting, first as a partner in Accenture and then as Managing Partner, Federal Government for Deloitte. He focused on change management and large scale program management, delivering or quality assuring 29 large Government programs, two of which were over half a billion dollars in size. In 2007 he established his own consulting company which specialises in bringing large consulting disciplines to mid-sized government clients. This firm still operates today. As his clients started to retire, he decided to return to university to take a PhD as a part of Daniel Shaddock’s group. His particular focus was the spatial modulation of laser light using digital interferometry to optimise transmission through a cavity. He is a founder of Liquid Instruments and an early board member and continues to offer a range of business advice.