Our People

We have a team of highly motivated, dedicated and skilled staff who share the vision for the success of Eventra. We are committed to fostering a professional and friendly culture where our clients and our people must always remain the focus.

Members of the Eventra team include:

Peter Howe
Managing Director

Peter's extensive experience and successful track record with large corporate and government bodies, particularly in the development of strategies and deployment of major work programmes, makes him keenly sought after. Peter's people management skills and demonstrated ability to motivate a disparate work force to achieve a common outcome are reflected in his successful record of delivery management.

His success stems from being a lateral thinker and leader, Peter continues to explore all possibilities with clients to maximise opportunities for success whilst reducing risk. High calibre negotiation and conflict resolution skills have resulted in Peter achieving significant results in assisting business units securing corporate funding, support and engagement at Board and Executive Committee level for major programmes of work with budgets ranging from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars.

Peter's core capabilities cover:

Trusted advisor/Critical friend
Programme/Project directorship and management
Alignment of technology investment with business strategies and plans
Deep dive recovery of programmes and project in trouble
Business case development
Quality Assurance and Health checks
Mentoring
Executive advice

Jason Schultz
General Manager

Over a period of more than two decades, Jason's career has spanned a variety of industries, cultures, and geographical locations. As a seasoned IT and business professional, Jason is passionate about building teams that deliver exceptional customer service, and project outcomes that add value to our clients' businesses at every opportunity.

Through personalised stakeholder engagement, Jason demonstrates a unique ability to open doors, understand needs, build trust, engage team to make things happen. He understands business from commercial, technical, process, and human aspects, and demonstrates a track record of delivering top and bottom line growth. Jason draws on strong relationships and a collection of international experiences in order to meet and exceed customer expectations, and deliver world class solutions for clients, businesses and partners on multiple continents.

Steven Newnham
Chief Architect

Steven is not only a partner within Eventra but also the senior technical director who provides direction and guidance to the Eventra senior technical resources.

Steven's core role is to deliver technology architecture, both tactical and strategic to large organisations as an integral component of their business development.

Steven has over 20 years experience in IT and has developed an enviable level of technical skills across a multitude of platforms, vendors and approaches to enterprise architecture development, solutions design and implementation. Steven's advice and guidance is keenly sought after with all Eventra's current client base.

Craig Bull

Practice Lead - Business & Systems Consulting

Craig's has extensive commercial exposure and experience across a broad range of strategic and senior leadership roles - especially relating to Program Director/Manager and senior Business Advising/Consulting roles that transcend a range of industry sectors.

Through his professional career, Craig has always led teams. He is therefore seen not only as a "people leader" but also a "thought leader" as in prior roles he has invariably been the executive or key architect who has actually owned the outcome desired so he is able to bring a suite of unique insights to an external consulting frame..

A quick snapshot of Craig's experience in successfully leading major organisational change, and delivering major business transformation initiatives over a 25+ year period demonstrates that he has:

Successfully led major core system implementations (SAP and Oracle), associated change management projects and 'recovery' projects in national and multi-national (services and manufacturing) organisations;

Been a key leader in developing the vision, blueprinting, and then implementation of, major business transformation initiatives (Shared Services and Supply Chain concepts);

Demonstrated experience in setting strategic direction and then leading business performance in large and complex organisations/projects;

An extensive understanding of technology, management of external vendors/contract negotiation and implementing governance structures in complex cross-functional organisation's;

Executive Management experience by leading (and redesigning) an Australian B2B technology company and managing all levels of stakeholder management of the holding company with liaison up to Board level; and

Exposure to international business cultures from working in developing (PNG) and developed (Sweden) countries; and

Held the senior roles described above in commercial, semi-government and government organisations.

Adam Dewhurst
Technical Services Manager

As Technical Services Manager, Adam is responsible for the service delivery within the Technical Services division. Leading our team of service engineers Adam utilises his extensive technical skills, ITIL based quality assurance practices and people management skills to achieve outstanding results in service provision and client satisfaction.

Adam has been working in the Information Technology industry for over 10 years. Amongst our client base he has established himself as a gifted solutions advisor and trusted mentor by our team of engineers. Adam's wealth, knowledge and expertise have been integral in the growth and expansion of Eventra.

Carolyn Howe
Business Manager

As the Business Manager Carolyn is involved in developing and implementing internal processes to support Eventra's product and service offerings and oversee the financial structure of the business.

With over 20 years experience working in the Corporate world, including 10 years in small and large law firms in Management roles, Carolyn has worked directly with partners or business owners in developing and expanding their firms.

Keen to cultivate her interest and knowledge in the IT world, Carolyn moved onto a large retail chain as IT Manager, more recently focusing on technology solutions in both the legal and retail sector.
Carolyn's ability to apply her understanding of business fundamentals and the value of strong client relationships promises continued success for a young dynamic company such as Eventra.

Murray Newham
Senior Service Engineer

As one of our most senior Engineers, Murray engages directly with our clients on technical solutions, service activities and assigned solutions design.

Murray has over 10 years experience in IT ranging from administration and design of infrastructure, to co-ordination of IT projects and services for an internationally broadcasted sporting event. Working as a pre-sales engineer for a US based company allowed Murray to gain valuable experience in developing business relationships. Murray's ability to establish a level of trust and confidence with our clients has moved him out of server rooms to direct engagement with the client, ensuring products delivered are scalable and aligned with business processes.