Sughesh Madathil is the owner/director of Maxop Business Consultants, financial consulting and advisory and Maxop Business Solutions, technology solutions company. Sughesh formed the two companies to provide integrated business services to organisations to help them maximise strategic opportunities. (www.maxopconsultants.com.au & www.maxop.com.au)

Maxop’s services include Virtual CFO, Customer Portal development in SharePoint, automate business processes using SharePoint, Financial Training, Small & Medium business advisory and collaboration with a number of technology partners to deliver Finance Systems, Audits, Commercial Loans etc. thus facilitating all services with a single point of contact.

Sughesh is an accomplished finance and governance professional, a CPA, MBA and a certified Governance professional, with more than 20 years of senior executive experience in both not-for-profit and commercial sector. Sughesh is passionate about business achieving not only financial outcomes but overall sustainability and social outcomes as well. The impact of climate change is profound in every walk of life and therefore, Sughesh advocates that every business need to be socially sustainable along with financial success.

Some of Sughesh’s key achievements include; identifying and implementing client systems, finance systems, IT strategic review, upgrading finance and logistics infrastructure, Business Intelligence system, Power BI, Payroll systems and a number of projects using SharePoint.

As his true commitment to the not-for-profit sector, Sughesh provides a number of voluntary services to not-for-profit organisations including free introductory consulting, voluntary participation in governance matters and voluntary Treasurer for a mental health service organisation in Victoria.

Sughesh was the key speaker at the 2019 CPA Australia conference on ‘building a business case for Business Intelligence system” delivered at Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. He was also a speaker at the SBS radio on the effect of state of the economy on exchange rates.

Sughesh is working on an innovating technology that will revolutionise customer communication and this technology will assist a large number of not-for-profit clients helping them to be in touch with their families.

The most enjoyable experience for Sughesh is the pleasure of working with the Board/CEOs and Teams exploring opportunities for business growth, process improvement, coaching and systems implementation. Sughesh not only believes in hard work, but also to do what is relevant and use the spare time for research and innovation.

Raj, the Head of IT operations at Maxop Business Solutions, comes with a wealth of experience gained across two decades. Raj has worked with major global organisations and actively involved in large scale IT Strategy, IT Security as well as hands-on implementation of various application development projects. He leads the team through the application lifecycle from planning to customer acceptance.

Raj is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), experienced in Client Engagement and Project Management and a Certified Microsoft Solution Developer (MCSD). Raj has built a range of Microsoft Applications including Organisational Intranet, Staff Portals, B2B Portals, Customer Portals and many Business Applications including Business Intelligence Systems such as Power BI, Tableau and Customised BI applications. His passion is in ensuring that significant time and focus is given to a project from the planning stage engaging all stakeholders thus the actual development and deployment become a smooth transition. Many of the applications developed significantly reduced lead time thus saving businesses thousands of dollars.

Raj has been with Maxop Business Solutions since the last two years and partnered with us to deliver valuable outcomes for clients.

Specific strategic, security and application experience of Raj include :

• Office 365 Implementation & Mail transfer
• Azure Cloud deployment and data transfer
• Fast tracking staff on boarding
• B2B Portals used on a global scale
• Global organisations’ Intranet
• Custom HR Solutions
• Custom Vendor Portals
• Enterprise Social Networking sites
• Social Entrepreneur: Established online platform to connect students and mentors for skills development
• Business Intelligence Systems for both structured and unstructured data
• Including developing data gathering and dissemination protocols
• Developed a variety of portal application in the Not-for-Profit and Educational sectors

Raj’s passion lies in customer (user) focused superior developments, with great emphasis on aesthetically fabulous User Interface (UI), stylish design contributing to overall User Experience (UX).

Graeme Cochrane (GWC Services) is our associate consultant specialising in strategic planning, program design and development, clinical education, mentoring and supervision, and development of written documents, submissions, tenders and grant applications.

Graeme draws upon a strong background in clinical psychology and over 25 years experience in successfully creating, developing, acquiring funding for and enhancing a wide range of effective community programs across multiple health and social services sectors, in program domains including primary and allied health, mental health, alcohol and drugs, aged care, disability, victims of crime, counselling, financial counselling, youth and family services.