Justin Butcher

Chief Executive Officer

Justin has been described by his peers as a change-agent, leader and visionary. He has a wealth of experience in ICT architecture development. Justin is able to incorporate these skills and apply them to solving complex business issues within complex program frameworks.

Justin utilises exceptional relationship building skills to ensure a thorough understanding of client businesses to achieve excellence and satisfaction.

Justin has led the architecture teams of several large and complex government initiatives, such as ACT Health’s Digital Health Program ($11 billion in 2010) and ATO’s SBR2 ($100 million in 2012).

Justin developed the architecture practice for ACT Government (architectural governance of $110 million in 2009) and two other government agencies in 2011 and 2012, before creating MXA and leading a wide range of strategic client engagements whilst growing a highly-regarded consulting business.

Justin has spent approximately 20 years leading and inspiring teams and has more than 15 years’ experience providing useful, pragmatic advice to C-level executives.

Peter Grant

Associate Partner

Peter has had roles as Chief Information Officer for the State of Queensland, Chief Information Officer for Queensland Health, Vice President of Consulting for Gartner (ACT and Queensland) and State Director for Microsoft. As Queensland Government CIO, he delivered the first ever whole of government ICT Audit, which included an extensive stocktake of all ICT hosting arrangements assets and strategic platforms.

Peter’s career achievements include negotiation and turn around of many very large-scale projects. He has spent many years reporting directly to ministers and heads of large government agencies.

Peter has developed significant strategies and overseen implementation at large and medium-sized federal government agencies, such as DHS and the Department of Education and Training.

Justin Keenan

Senior Director

Laura Dyason

Researcher and Analyst

Laura is an expert researcher, analyst and workshop facilitator. Laura is capable of synthesizing mass amounts of information to draw out crucial insights and potential flaws processes. She is in the final stages of her PhD at Sydney University.

Laura is also a highly competent manager and project coordinator who previously ran her own highly successful business with over 150 staff across 3 locations.

Laura’s efficiency in processing information provides the MXA team to analyse, assess and improve organisational practices.

Stewart Howard

Regulatory Design and Legal Specialist

Stew is an experienced consultant, lawyer and government senior executive. He is a key contributor to the team and brings a wealth of experience in regulatory design to our projects.

Stew trained as a lawyer and went on to lead the ‘Large Business and International Division’ of the ATO as a Senior Executive. This chapter in Stew’s career provided him unique first-hand experience with taxation treaties, international compliance enforcement with large global businesses and, insights into the strategies used to avoid or evade tax on the international stage.

Stew also worked as a Law Partner at Minter Ellison, where he gained experience consulting to government before moving into strategy consulting. His strategy consulting experience includes leading a Functional and Efficiency Review for the Small Business Ombudsman in 2019 where Stew and his team looked at the regulatory design of the Ombudsman and assessed its effectiveness regarding the Ombudsman’s role, purpose and legislative basis.

Stew has led numerous regulatory design consulting projects for Commonwealth government agencies over the last 5 years and brings this abundance of knowledge and experience to the MXA team.

Dr. Priya Dev

Expert Data Scientist

Priya lectures in data science at the ANU on a part-time basis, and works with the MXA team to develop high quality strategies in ICT and data management, business cases and implementation plans. She has a great mind for strategy and planning that is grounded in practical experience.

Priya is an experienced Academic & Fin-tech entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry & Start-ups. Priya is skilled in Statistical Modelling and Data Science, Math Finance and, Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics.

Priya supports the delivery of our work products with advice on application of data science tools and principles. By bringing these skills to the MXA team, we can ensure our solutions are put together with the highest level of knowledge and expertise.

Stuart Firth

Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Stu is our resident graphic designer. He makes our work look appealing, and helps us create images and diagrams that our clients sometimes say are “worth more than a thousand words”. His artistic capabilities and skill at functional design ensures a well crafted and polished deliverable.

Stu helps to develop clear and easy-to-understand maps and workflows that show how the objectives of the projects will be met. He creates clear and attractive representations of your work schedules, implementation plans, and other key aspects of strategy.

Stu has been with MXA for more than 8 years, providing highly efficient and effective assistance to make our deliverables look polished and professional, and to help us illustrate complex technical concepts clearly for our clients.

Keith Roscarel

Senior Digital Leader

Keith is a senior digital leader with over 30 years experience creating and delivering transformational solutions for medium-to-large organisations. Keith has been a cloud, integration and data analytics champion for several years.

In his wider career, Keith has worked in many diverse roles throughout his career including CIO, Program Director, Architect and Practice Lead. During this time, Keith worked on assignments such as process innovation, value enablement, technology strategy and, ICT organisational design. With such experience across many industries, Keith is able to leverages his knowledge of best practices to projects within telecommunications, government, utilities, transport, retail, education, media and IT.

Keith performs his role with MXA by focusing on risk-mitigated, cost-effective and, agile-delivered solutions to ensure that solutions are realistic, efficient and productive.

Maranda McLaren

Business Strategist

Maranda is a management executive with extensive experience as a Director. Maranda has a wealth of experience that enables her to create shareholder equity, set relevant and successful strategies, manage risk and engage with corporate governance.

Maranda’s career spans a multitude of roles, regions and industries. Her work has impacted the Asia Pacific, Asia, Europe, and the USA, across industries such as Retail, Services, Manufacturing, Government, and Finance. Maranda’s experience with start-ups, commercial organisations and as a founder, greatly benefits MXA’s ability in developing strategy. She is known for her ability to quickly assess the issues, gain trust and commitment from stakeholder groups and, develop agreed and workable plans.

Maranda benefits MXA by providing strategies that meet the demands of projects in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible whilst not forgetting the experience of those involved.

Aaron Hammond

Researcher and Writer

Aaron is an adept researcher with an enthusiasm for qualitative data that delves into human experience and its role within systems and process. Aaron holds a Master of Research degree and applies his skills to gleam insights from large amounts of qualitative data and incorporate them into deliverables.

Prior to his academic endeavors, Aaron worked on projects implementing ICT systems. This background in combination with his academic achievements provides Aaron the ability to analyse systems and processes from technical and human perspectives.

Aaron fulfills his role in MXA as an all-rounder by providing insights, assistance and an alternate perspective on systems and approaches.