The TURBO Team

Craig is a co-founder and Director of Turbo, co-founder and Managing Director of DeltaPearl Partners. He has more than 30 years of professional and leadership experience. He has worked as a CEO, director, economist, program manager, senior executive, diplomat, thought-leader and advisor. This has taken place across a large range of sectors, often with a strong focus on economic policy, infrastructure advisory and national development, in more than 30 countries. Craig’s early career was in banking and later diplomacy.

In 2011 he worked as an advisor to an Australian mining company developing a major new copper-gold project in Indonesia. From 2007 to 2010 he was the CEO of a not-for-profit public company in Australia which had offices and staff in several countries and catalysed a number of major regional economic development initiatives across Asia and the Pacific. Craig worked at the World Bank and International Finance Corporation and other international agencies from 2000 to 2007 and served as a diplomat in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the 1990s.

Immediately before founding DeltaPearl Partners, Craig was Executive Advisor to the Centre for International Economics in Australia and Strategic Advisor to the Aga Khan Development Network in the Middle East. For three years to January 2017, Craig worked in the Australian state of Queensland’s Department of the Premier and Cabinet where he led the Queensland Government’s Economic Policy Group and managed the Queensland Government’s Northern Australia agenda.

Craig has co-authored two books which examine the role of business investment in international markets driving economic growth, published by Princeton University Press and Greenleaf Publishing.

Craig has a BA in Asian Studies and Economics from Griffith University, a Graduate Certificate in Management from Deakin University and a Masters in International Affairs (Economic Policy) from Columbia University. He is a graduate of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government’s Executive Fellows Program (2015), the Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Directors Course (2008) and the University of Melbourne’s Asialink Australia-Asia New Leaders Program (2003). He has won various scholarships including the Harvard University Society of Australia Scholarship (2009) and the Australia-China Council Beijing Residency Award (2002). He was a joint recipient of Australia Day Achievement Awards in 1995 and 1997.

Brad is a co-founder and Director of Turbo and DeltaPearl Partners’ Canberra office. He has over 10 years of professional economics and policy experience working for the Centre for International Economics, the Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet where he was the Policy Division’s Principal Economist, Queensland Treasury, the Queensland Treasury Corporation, the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) and Seqwater.

Brad has experience in the application of economic and financial concepts to a wide range of issues across the public and private sectors, including:

• government policy, program and finance analysis
• large infrastructure investment assessment and decision advisory
• impact and design of regulation
• economic development strategy
• water, energy and other utilities
• business valuation, impairment and fair value testing.

Brad’s capabilities and experience includes government program evaluations, legislative and policy reviews, preparing regulatory impact statements, cost benefit analysis, heavy haul rail economic regulatory reviews, capital expenditure evaluations, company valuation, budget modelling and forecast estimates, and economic and statistical analysis.

Brad also has nine years of experience in the Australian Army in a variety of roles, including four years’ experience as a Field Engineer. Brad’s military experience, combined with his economic financial knowledge and experience, gives him a unique and practical understanding of infrastructure, defence, government strategy and logistics issues.

Brad has completed a Degree in Economics, a Masters of Applied Finance, and Melbourne University’s Asialink Leaders Course.

Contact Brad: Brad.Rogers@turbo-tbcc.com

Jon is one of Australia’s leading infrastructure and policy analysts with experience as a senior leader in Infrastructure Australia, Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, Commonwealth Government Department of Infrastructure and Transport.

Qualifications/Accreditations:

• Macquarie University, Master of Economics
• Australian Institute of Management, Diploma of Government
• University of Technology, Sydney, Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Social Inquiry), and International Studies including one year at University of Strasbourg, studying management and political science

Infrastructure Australia Assessment Framework methodology development

In 2015, Jon played a leading role in developing a framework for assessment to be used by Infrastructure Australia for identifying, assessing and communicating benefits in project proposals. This analysis focused on giving greater weight to wider economic benefits, as well as intangible benefits across environmental and social parameters, which were historically undercounted through Infrastructure Australia’s assessments. During his time at IA, Jon was also a member of the Infrastructure Australia Assessment Panel, guiding advisory decisions for nationally significant projects through economic and strategic advice.

Nation Building 2 transport program development

While at the Federal Department of Infrastructure, Jon played a leading role in assessing and prioritising a multi-billion dollar pipeline of transport projects seeking funding through the National Building 2 Program. This included business case assessment, and the provision of strategic and policy advice, and gave Jon a deep understanding of the ingredients of successful transport business cases and what makes a project stand out for funding.

2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit

Jon led the delivery of Infrastructure Australia’s 2019 Australian Infrastructure Audit. This took a detailed and multidisciplinary approach to analysing the gaps and challenges in Australia’s infrastructure across all asset classes, and outlined a range of opportunities for improvement. The Audit incorporated a specific focus on health infrastructure for the first time by Infrastructure Australia, taking a top-down approach to assessing national issues.