Ken is a partner at PKF responsible for audit, governance, risk and compliance services.

He is a member of PKF Australia’s Audit Leadership Group, serves as Head of Risk for the PKF Melbourne practice and also chairs PKF’s national Integrity business, which delivers whistleblower services, workplace conduct/ financial investigations and psychosocial safety training and education.

Outside of his work with PKF, Ken has a long standing relationship with the Governance Institute of Australia where he is a current Board member and chair of its Risk, Audit and Finance Committee, bringing exposure to TEQSA accreditation and academic risk matters. He is a past member and chair of the Institute’s Victorian State Council.  

Ken is also Chair of East Grampians Health Service, a rural health service, public hospital and aged care provider sitting within the portfolio of the Victorian Department of Health. His other roles include being an adjunct professor (Department of Accounting) at Monash University and a member of both the Sustainability Committee and the Shaping the Future of the Profession taskforce of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Ken is a past director and audit committee chair of Housing First Ltd, an award winning, regulated, not for profit organisation providing social housing to over 2,000 people across Melbourne.

Portfolios

Victoria University Council

Professional memberships & qualifications

  • Bachelor of Accountancy and Economics, University of Glasgow
  • Chartered Accountant (member of Institutes of Chartered Accountants of Scotland & Australia New Zealand)
  • Master of Business Administration, University of Warwick
  • Chartered Secretary, Chartered Governance Professional (fellow of Governance Institute of Australia)
  • Registered Company Auditor