Breckenhill - Management Team - Edward (Ned) Eustace MBA, CA

A professional accountant with more than thirty years experience, Ned is a results-driven business process consultant and a personal mentor to senior management. He has extensive field and executive management experience with outstanding communications abilities.

A superb communicator, skilled presenter and gifted public speaker, he developed and taught courses and seminars in auditing, computer security, business strategy and accounting at the university level and directly for clients. He builds trusted, high integrity and confidential relationships with his clients.

Ned is a manager who gets things done. His experience in the public and private sectors, in Canada and internationally, provides in-depth financial, information and performance management, corporate governance, internal control and audit knowledge with expert analytical capacity and broad business experience.

Initially an IT systems design professional in the United Kingdom and later in Canada, he qualified and practiced as a Chartered Accountant in Ontario and Quebec and became a partner in an international public accounting firm, Spicer MacGillivery (now BDO) where he focused on management consulting and IT auditing. Through his hands-on approach, he has extensive experience in performance, internal audit and privacy auditing matched with consulting and project management know-how in finance, information and communications technology. He is an expert in business process mapping, business modeling and workflow analysis, supported by strategic planning and organizational design.

PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Ned has public sector experience in the areas of:

health records
social services
national defence
heritage and culture
international development
aboriginal affairs
passenger rail services
mortgage portfolio management
public housing
postal services
national standards agencies
dairy supply management

Ned has held two executive management positions, CIO and CFO, in a multi-national financial services company, and served as Principal in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada under the federal government's private sector Executive Interchange Program.
His consulting experience in the Canadian public sector includes (among others):

the Privacy Council Office
the Office of the Auditor General
the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Health Canada
Heritage Canada

Internationally, his practice has included the National Audit Office of Bulgaria, the Council of Control of the Republic of Armenia, and in 2007, he was appointed USAID Chief-of-Party on an Anti-corruption project in Nigeria. He is increasingly in demand internationally and has done work for the World Bank, USAID and the International Development Research Centre broadly in the area of financial management and control.

PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Ned"s private sector experience in executive management and consulting includes:

international banking
insurance and reinsurance
professional liability
marine insurance broking
construction
not-for-profit sector

He has managed multi-million dollar software projects, developed complex sophisticated business cases, planned business start-ups and refinanced business turnarounds in the software, capital goods, construction, insurance broking and energy management areas.

EDUCATION

He holds a B.Com. from University College Dublin, Ireland and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Ontario in 1971. In 1991 he obtained an MBA from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in Montreal.