Brad McMahon

Managing Director

Brad is the Owner and Director of Optimum Consulting Group. Founding the company in 2003

Ben Walsh

General Manager - Recruitment

Ben commenced his recruitment career in Brisbane in 1998 before working internationally in Canada and Ireland…

Alicia Sumich

Group Manager - Business Development

Alicia is a seasoned Recruitment Consultant with over 15 years’ experience in the Brisbane market.

Stephen Cushion

General Manager - Consulting

Stephen joined Optimum in 2015 as the General Manager of the Consulting practice based in Brisbane…

Jason Buchanan

General Manager - Insights & Innovation

Jason joined Optimum Consulting in 2012 to head up our Insights & Innovation division bringing almost 20 years of cross-industry…

Marianne Savas

Divisional Manager - Qld

As an ex-Accountant by trade, Marianne started her career in recruitment, initially working for Hays in their accounting support division…

Rutherford Kennedy

Senior Consultant & Recruitment Lead

Rutherford joined the team at Optimum in September 2022 with a background in law and customer service…

Maidlin Mistry

Divisional Manager

Maidlin, has worked in the recruitment industry for over 20 years with both boutique firms and listed multi-nationals…

Mikahla Smith

Executive Consultant

Mikahla began her career working for a small business consulting firm before joining Optimum Consulting in 2010 as a Consultant…

Jennifer Hamilton

Office Manager/PA

Jenny joined the Optimum team in September 2018 after 11 years of being a stay at home mother.  Prior to this…

Rob Lucas

Finance & Administration Manager

An opportunity to join Optimum Consulting in September 2011 was too good to ignore providing…

Sarah Linder

Operations Manager

In November 2024, my husband, two daughters and I packed up our lives and made the big move from the UK to sunny Brisbane, Australia…

Leanne McMahon

Group Assistant

Meet Leanne, the friendly face at Optimum reception since November 2015.

Mia Newbold

Associate Consultant

Mia joined the Optimum Consulting Team in April 2025 a Candidate Consultant (Primarily working with Rutherford and Alicia)…

Ben Sciacca

Associate Consultant

Ben joined the Optimum Consulting Team in February 2022 to help out with resourcing and interviewing of our candidates…

Grace Anne Mendoza

Resourcing Specialist

Grace started with Optimum Consulting in July 2019 as an IT resourcing specialist. She is part of…

Pauline Zantua

Resourcing Specialist

Pauline joined Optimum Consulting in February 2021, supporting the Technical Services portfolio….

Marian Gianine Busa

Resourcing Specialist

Marian is a Bachelor’s Degree holder in Psychology , with 10 years working experience in Human Resources…

Van Silvano

Resourcing Specialist

Van joined Optimum in January 2023 as part of the Technical Services Team. With a background…

Sheena Calansingin

Resourcing Specialist

Sheena joined the team in October 2024 as a Resourcing Specialist, bringing over 11 years…

Katharine Torre

Support Consultant

Katha has been with Optimum Consulting Group since July 2015, supporting both…

Louise Lumapas

Full Stack Developer

Working as a front-end developer for the past four years, I recently joined Ryan’s team as a full-stack developer…

Michael Gaerlan

QA Analyst

Michael started with Optimum Consulting on December 2013 as quality assurance (QA) analyst for the various…

Jessica Burgos

Front End Developer

Jessica joined Optimum Consulting in May 2022 as a Front End Developer. Working in our Technical Development…

Bianca de Barros

Corporate Services Consultant

Bianca joined Optimum Consulting Group as a Corporate Services Consultant (Remote) as part of the Optimum acquisition…

Ryan

Chief Technology Officer

Ryan joined us in 2014, and whilst he already had a few years software development experience…