Meet Our Leadership Team
Patrick Winters, Managing Director
Pat is the founder and owner of Next Apex. With 20 years experience across the public and private sectors in Australia and the UK, Pat is a trusted leader and project and program management expert. From Board level to the technical delivery layer, Pat has a reputation for rapidly creating clarity and shared purpose in complex and ambiguous delivery environments, and for providing trusted and actionable assurance and advice to executive-level clients.
Lisa De Cure, Principal
Lisa brings over a decade of experience and is a proven specialist in the Canberra market. Lisa has led teams to successfully
deliver multiple complex, challenging and high profile projects for Commonwealth clients, including international airport and operational capability delivery. Lisa's reputation is built on her ability to lead large teams and bring diverse stakeholders together to execute high pressure projects and programs.
Chris Wattam, Principal
With a career spanning 25 years leading teams in ICT and technology project delivery and operational excellence, Chris has extensive experience providing ICT/OT and project advisory, delivery and assurance services, including complex technology strategy and design advisory across all domains. Chris is a trusted advisor across the public and private sectors, and brings pragmatic and outcomes focused technology advisory to our executive level clients.
Damien Gubler, Principal
Damien is an ICT project and program delivery specialist who brings long experience in the delivery of complex technology enabled transformation for large Commonwealth clients. Damien is repeatedly relied upon by our clients to rapidly recover their most complex and challenged technology projects. With a reputation for quickly building clarity and confidence in delivery teams, Damien is an expert at leading multi-disciplinary teams to overcome significant challenges to achieve success in high-pressure scenarios.
Danny Hansen, Principal
Danny has over 30 years of experience leading complex
technology and business transformation initiatives, portfolios,
programs and projects. Danny brings expertise and highly-valued delivery advisory to our clients, based on his experience in successful delivery of large and complex technology projects and programs, the recovery of failing projects and programs, strategic planning and business improvement, digital transformation, and building strong
relationships based on trust.