Our innovative operating model is reflected in our ‘flat’ structure and collaborative approach. We are a self-directed and multi-disciplinary team that rallies in support of every initiative, comprising Producers, Promoters, and Expert Services.
The Producers
With a global view, the 460degrees senior leadership team understands the challenges you face in business. Working with considerable grounding in professional services across digital, management consulting and sales, the Producers drive the engines that lead strategy, create solutions, nurture talent, and unify teams.
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As Managing Partner at 460degrees, Thang oversees the Consulting & Promoters team.
With 15 years’ experience overseeing complex digital transformation projects for ASX200 and global companies, he has established himself as a leader, team maker and a business builder with the experience and skills to tackle complex projects. Clients simply trust he will get the job done.
Prior to his current role, Thang was responsible for successfully delivering transformation strategies that enabled clients to both achieve commercial goals and fulfil company vision.
His focus now is to ensure both the expert Champions 460degrees represents, and corporate clients using the consulting service, complete highly successful engagements. A key part of this is helping the experts develop their capabilities and solutions to be market-ready. Ultimately, Thang’s role is to actively encourage innovation, engender a sense of unity across a project and obtain the best quality outcomes for all.
When not engaged in the rewarding challenges of work, Thang can be found honing new skills in the kitchen, cooking for his family.
Managing Partner
Thang Huynh
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With two decades of corporate experience in executing B2B sales strategies, leading high performing teams and cultivating long term executive partnerships, Jeny is a partner, heads up marketing and branding, and spearheads 460degrees’ major client partnerships.
An established artist with an undergraduate in psychology, Jeny also channels her natural creativity, curiosity and keen human interest into this results-driven environment.
Jeny’s past experience includes leading corporate sponsorship for the NBL’s South East Melbourne Magic basketball club. She also has extensive management consulting experience, during which she earned the trust of various CEOs of digital start-ups as part of Innovation City Victoria – a government-funded initiative – helping to produce business plans, raise capital investment, and secure cornerstone revenue.
Transitioning into digital communications, Jeny has worked with key clients in state and federal government, defence, higher education, banking, and finance, to deliver digital and Cloud-based technologies and solutions. She possesses specific specialties in data engineering and development including business intelligence & analytics, applications development, DevOps, automation and artificial intelligence.
Jeny is a keen observer and sometimes participant of many forms of motor sport. She is also passionate about AFL, travel and family – both the two and four-legged kind.
Partner, Marketing & Branding
Jeny Drinkwater
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As founder and executive chief of the first true expert management agency, 460degrees, Werner is deeply motivated by the opportunity to champion disruption in the management consulting market.
Originally from South Africa, Werner enjoyed quick success on arriving in antipodean Australia, becoming a multi-organisation founder, which led him on his path to this venture: representing Australia’s absolute apex of technology experts.
An accountant by qualification – starting with Price Waterhouse Cooper in 1986 – and an entrepreneur of considerable experience, Werner knows when to take the right risks and how to make them count. He is renowned for spotting a gap in the market, creating a new practice and using that practice to deliver exponential value for his customers.
For Werner, professional services start with relationships and a commitment to producing results that will provide significant value beyond the inked deliverables. His specialities include: practice strategy, design, leadership and execution, introducing and operating network-based organisational models, continuous innovation and the incubation of professional services firms.
Werner has a keen interest in all sports, plays golf and tennis and has a real passion for travelling and the study of human behaviour.
Managing Director
Werner Spies
The Promoters
Fast on their feet, the Promoters bring deep knowledge of what makes our experts tick. They promote the best approach to your initiative by uniting insight into your business objectives with our Experts’ exceptional skills.
The Expert Services
From Finance to Marketing and Culture, the Expert Services team offers robust, specialist support to our Experts. They integrate with your business systems and are the powerhouse of the 460degrees Expert team.
Philip Hayde
Client Director
As one of 460degrees’ Client Directors’, Phil is focused on developing new and existing client partnerships across the technology space; he’s dedicated to building long term relationships, getting to know businesses inside-out and being on hand to provide solutions for numerous problems clients may encounter.
Prior to his role at the agency, Phil spent five years recruiting in the technology space. His first two years were back home in his native Ireland, before moving to Melbourne three years ago to build a DevOps and cloud engineering desk from scratch.
Phil is in his element developing close relationships that enable him to be the trusted ‘go-to’ person for clients and he enjoys having the depth of talent available to him at 460degrees.
He strongly believes the best solutions are provided when teams are built in a bespoke manner, based on need and specific experience.
A massive sports fan, Phil spends a lot of time participating in recreational activities outside the office. In addition to playing the Irish sport of hurling and running marathons, he spends his weekends barracking for the mighty Geelong Cats.
Joe Aglieco
Client Director
As a business partner and our Client Relationship Director, Joe maintains a continuous understanding of current challenges and disruptive changes in the market to ensure 460degree client partners stay ahead of the game.
Joe’s sweet spot is translating company strategies into program activities that will achieve outcomes and deliver impressive commercial benefits.
With more than 20 years’ industry know-how and having extensive experience, Joe feels fortunate to have been trusted by his clients to provide the best solutions for delivering core projects.
Joe has worked on significant business and technology transformations across many different sectors, including telecommunications, utilities and government. These projects have incorporated Cloud computing, DevOps, the introduction of next generation technologies and utilising business agility for new ways of working.
Joe’s favourite activities have a distinctly cosmopolitan flavour: tinkering with his coffee grinder and coffee machine to make perfect espressos and riding his motorbike. On weekends he loves getting out on the park playing football.
Vincent Price
Client Director (Public Sector)
If you ask Vincent Price, our 460degrees Client Director, he’d tell you it’s the people around him that make him better at what he does. Which, funnily enough, is the very thing people say about him.
Having spent over 30 years working in all levels of government both locally and internationally, Vincent brings a depth and breadth of experience only a lifelong commitment to learning and having a real-world impact can manifest.
Starting out as a developer with a large IBM partner, mid-career he founded a professional services company, before working in an advisory and client director capacity for large organisations. As Client Director for 460degrees, his role sees him engage with the Victorian Public Sector to promote us as a trusted partner in the sector.
Delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives is what gets Vincent out of bed in the morning, which he achieves by helping clients find clarity and focus. His proudest achievement was working with the Australian Federal Government to support the delivery of the National HPV Immunisation Register – a program that continues to deliver significant positive health outcomes for Australian society.
Outside of work, Vincent has the travel bug – something he and his partner look forward to indulging even more since their three children have flown the nest. A card-carrying foodie, it’s not surprising to learn he has also amassed an impressive wine collection.
Jeny Drinkwater
Partner, Marketing & Branding
Client Director
With two decades of corporate experience in executing B2B sales strategies, leading high performing teams and cultivating long term executive partnerships, Jeny is a partner, heads up marketing and branding, and spearheads 460degrees’ major client partnerships.
An established artist with an undergraduate in psychology, Jeny also channels her natural creativity, curiosity and keen human interest into this results-driven environment.
Jeny’s past experience includes leading corporate sponsorship for the NBL’s South East Melbourne Magic basketball club. She also has extensive management consulting experience, during which she earned the trust of various CEOs of digital start-ups as part of Innovation City Victoria – a government-funded initiative – helping to produce business plans, raise capital investment, and secure cornerstone revenue.
Transitioning into digital communications, Jeny has worked with key clients in state and federal government, defence, higher education, banking, and finance, to deliver digital and Cloud-based technologies and solutions. She possesses specific specialties in data engineering and development including business intelligence & analytics, applications development, DevOps, automation and artificial intelligence.
Jeny is a keen observer and sometimes participant of many forms of motor sport. She is also passionate about AFL, travel and family – both the two and four-legged kind.
Desire Rooney
Finance Manager
Desire is responsible for all aspects of 460degrees Finance, including contract management. She loves how no one day is ever the same and enjoys our hardworking environment, tackling new challenges and finding solutions.
Desire’s passion for accounting and finance has inspired a long career in the sector. She started as a junior Auditor in 1995 at KPMG South Africa, where she completed five years of articles. In 2000 she moved to the UK, where she worked in a Finance role in Telecommunications.
In 2012, Desire moved to Australia and started with CharterMason as an Accounts Assistant and has been with us ever since.
When not at 460degrees, Desire enjoys spending time with her family, keeping busy as a mum and wife.
Marian Bamberger
Accounts Assistant
Marian ensures the smooth running of our Accounts department: helping consultants where she can to achieve the 460degrees goals and deadlines.
Marian is responsible for timesheets, liaising with Telstra, invoicing and Fieldglass timesheets, debtors, onboarding and offboarding.
Her background in computer programming and insurance has given her a solid grounding in working in our busy accounts department. When not at 460degrees, Marian is devoted to a busy family life, with two young kids and a puppy.
Angela Palahinjak
People & Culture Lead
As our 460degrees People & Culture Lead, Angela works to empower genius within a values-driven culture.
She drives a connected, collaborative, and self-directed workplace, where alignment between the business and the Experts’ ‘why’ is crucial. In understanding what makes our Experts tick she creates trusted relationships, removing the noise so Experts can stay focused on what gives them meaning and purpose.
While Angela has worked with 460degrees since early 2020, she also worked with many of our team members in 2008 at CharterMason, where the idea of the world’s first expert management agency was born. Why did she come back? It’s simple – to work alongside talented and inspiring thought leaders and to become a part of the world’s first EMA. Angela’s career has been built on connecting and leading people working across industries such as management consulting, recruitment specialising in IT, retail, and law.
Day-to-day, Angela loves helping people focus on what matters most so they can live fulfilling lives and achieve their aspirations. For her, a great result is when our Experts have a deep connection to their workplace and people and feel a sense of achievement.
When not focused on the world of 460degrees, Angela loves being with her family and friends. Angela’s happy place is being at home on her farm with her husband, two beautiful daughters, goats, sheep, horses and a ram.
She is a self-confessed ‘coffee snob’ and food and wine lover, travel doer and dreamer, wellness fanatic, Simon Sinek buff, kitchen dancer, Wiggles and Frozen expert, and all-round happiness addict.
Pam Dennis
Operations & Sales Support Lead
As Operations and Sales Support, Pam is an invaluable lynchpin in 460degrees’ client and staff liaison.
Essential to maintaining relationships both in-house and externally, Pam is readily available to assist any of the team members or for client requests.
Pam brings a wealth of experience to her role, with over 37-years as an Executive Assistant in large organisations including Cadbury Schweppes, Mentone Girls’ Secondary College, HP, and Telstra. She was also owner of a sports store franchise for five years, then moved into Certatech and 460degrees as Operations and Sales Support.
She is involved in onboarding and offboarding, keeping staff informed of OHS obligations, and is the Integrated Management System representative – ensuring all internal audits are ready for major external ISO audits.
In her spare time, Pam is a keen golfer and renovator, who also loves to try her hand at art.
Haridini Simson
Talent Acquisition Lead
Haridini Simson always says recruitment was something she ‘fell’ into, making her career journey sound much like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole. Which actually makes sense. Because so much of what she does as Talent Acquisition Lead at 460degrees involves a touch of magic, mystery and the alchemy that happens when talent and clients connect.
Having a talent for talent spotting sounds a bit meta, but in our business there couldn’t be a more essential role. Famous for her efficiency and uncompromisingly high standards, Haridini heads up our Talent functions with a real depth of experience, backed up by a knack and a ‘knowing’ for when she’s found the perfect person to meet a client’s unique needs.
Before joining the 460degrees team in 2017, Haridini spent over a decade in agency recruitment, primarily in Digital and Tech. She now finds joy in understanding a candidate’s professional goals, then aligning them to job opportunities that create win-win client relationships. A great day in the office means collaborating with her colleagues and team members to deliver a unified outcome.
Outside the workplace, Haridini is an animal lover (she has no less than two dogs and a cat) and lives to spend time with her husband and kids, delighting in the fun and organised chaos of weekend sport and a busy social life.