Benoit Trudeau
Managing Director, Trudeau & Associates

Benoit began his consulting career almost twenty years ago, initially in Canada before coming to Australia in the mid-1980s, where he has worked with Arthur Young and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu prior to founding Trudeau & Associates in 1991.

He has long concentrated on the three areas that have become the Firm’s key business streams: the development of strategy, complex situation analyses, and the enhancement of business performance through the development and introduction of better operational and organisational models.

Benoit has experience in a range of industries – banking and finance, insurance and funds management; property, construction and development, including major urban development projects; mining and related services; and government – in many different countries and environments, from Canada and the United States to Japan and Thailand, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the United Arab Emirates.

He has dealt with banks like the Commonwealth Bank of Australia; property fund managers and providers of corporate real estate services like Colonial First State Property, insurance companies such as The Prudential and Zurich Financial Services Australia, as well as regulators. He has worked with mining companies like Anglo Coal Australia and Peabody Energy, as well as rail and port facilities; with entities instrumental in managing some of Australia’s key urban development projects, from the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning to Landcom and the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, as well as project-specific corporations; and with a range of government bodies.

Since 2001 when the Firm’s growth began in the United States, Benoit divides his time between Asia-Pacific and the United States. He continues to be actively involved in the conduct of assignments, particularly those that involve strategy development and the examination of business models.