Our People
At Modalus, we take pride in our exceptional team of dedicated professionals who bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the table. Get to know the driving force behind our success.
At Modalus, we take pride in our exceptional team of dedicated professionals who bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the table. Get to know the driving force behind our success.
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Nathan Cairney is a dedicated and motivated project management professional with a wealth of experience in strategic advisory and project delivery roles. With a proven track record in managing significant projects across various sectors, Nathan possesses a versatile skill set that covers the entire project life cycle.
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Nathan is known for his strong project leadership and his proven ability to form and lead high-performing teams, particularly on large-scale, highly complex projects and programs. His unique talent lies in his capacity to absorb, retain, and synthesise intricate project details while tailoring his communication to suit his audience’s level of detail and understanding.
Kieran Mooney is a seasoned project management professional with nearly two decades of specialised experience in the infrastructure sector. His commitment to excellence and unwavering dedication to his clients have earned him a reputation as an industry leader.
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Kieran’s ability to apply practical, technical, and commercial acumen enables him to provide comprehensive expertise to his clients. Whether he’s serving in an advisory, program management, or delivery capacity, Kieran seamlessly integrates into client teams, becoming an integral part of their operations. His relentless pursuit of optimal outcomes and commitment to excellence set him apart.
Brad has 10 years’ experience advising clients across the development of complex multi-billion-dollar capital projects in the infrastructure sector, from front-end strategy, feasibility, planning, procurement and delivery, into operations.
Brad leads the Modalus Advisory service offering, having prior long-term advisory experience at both Deloitte and Advisian.
Brad works with clients to optimise the development of major projects, through advising on where and how to deploy capital, and providing commercial rigour to assess, procure and deliver projects aligned to strategic business. objectives. Brad has worked with both public and private sector clients across a diverse portfolio of major multi-billion-dollar capital projects, with a focus on the transport, freight and logistics and industrial property sectors. He has played a leading role in the development and delivery of major rail, intermodal freight terminals and industrial precincts across the East-Coast of Australia.
Brad’s expertise spans the complete project lifecycle:
Tom is an energetic, engaging and highly capable Associate Director and team leader with over 13 years’ experience in commercial, industrial, and residential construction, with a focus originally on building services and facilities management across each.
Tom’s background stems from working in a hands-on capacity, where he has successfully led teams to deliver large-scale projects in both Australia & the UK. As an Associate Director, Tom manages the full project lifecycle from the authority approvals and design phase, through tendering, contract execution, and superintendency of the contract through construction and onto handover.
Having developed and refined his project management skills through a mixture of hands-on construction, operations management and formal education, Tom thrives under pressure and adapts quickly to any challenge and environment. Complimentary of his technical skills, are Tom’s strengths in stakeholder management. Tom is renowned for building long-standing relationships with clients, key stakeholders, and contractors alike.
Tom’s broad range of experience offers a versatile skillset, including:
Marc is a diligent project management professional with over 15 years of experience in sectors such as roads, rail, ports, and environmental rehabilitation. Marc has a great understanding of the stakeholder complexities and nuances working in a client-side role whilst also having significant construction direct experience to enable effective construction delivery management.
With experience in all stages of project delivery from authority approvals, design, procurement, construction and commissioning; Marc always keeps the broader project goals in mind. His greatest value add comes from his ability to view and solve problems with a practical, technical and commercial lens. Overall project success needs to be achieved by both the client and contractor.
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Eva Wang is a results-oriented project management professional with a strong track record in delivering complex development projects. With end-to-end expertise across the entire project lifecycle, Eva combines practical insight with strategic thinking to achieve outcomes that align with commercial goals and client expectations.
Known for her ability to perform under pressure, Eva brings a sharp analytical mindset and a decisive, solutions-focused approach to every project. She is highly regarded for her clear communication, strategic perspective, and unwavering commitment to delivery. Her leadership consistently drives clarity, momentum, and success across diverse and dynamic development environments.
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Eva has developed a reputation for her solutions-focused approach, combining a strategic mindset with strong analytical thinking and decisive action. With broad experience across commercial and industrial developments, she consistently delivers high-impact outcomes in fast-paced and evolving project environments.
Ian Hardy is an accomplished project management professional specialising in the delivery of complex industrial facilities, including automated distribution centres, temperature-controlled environments, and large-scale logistics infrastructure. His career spans the full project lifecycle — from early concept planning and procurement through to contract administration, completion, and operational readiness.
Ian has developed deep expertise in highly automated facilities involving systems where the critical interface between base build construction and automation installation demands meticulous coordination, sequencing, and stakeholder alignment. Combined with his structural engineering background, this positions him to navigate the unique technical challenges of automated and complex environments, including temperature control and with confidence and precision. Ian is a leader with the Modalus Industrial Team.
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Selwyn Rees is a chartered engineer and seasoned project manager with a wealth of expertise in the infrastructure and construction industry. Selwyn offers a distinctive skill set, blending a successful consulting career with hands-on construction experience across Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
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Selwyn is highly regarded for his project leadership and demonstrated ability to build relationships with project stakeholders and teams.
Fei is a dedicated and accomplished project management professional with over five years of experience in project management and project delivery. He has a proven track record in managing complex, multi-level industrial warehouses and civil infrastructure projects, demonstrating expertise throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Fei’s proficiency includes effective stakeholder management and leading project teams toward innovative solutions. He is widely recognised for his ability to cultivate enduring relationships with key stakeholders and consultants and ensure the efficient and effective completion of projects.
Fei’s versatile skillset and capabilities span the entire project life cycle, encompassing:
Fei’s leadership shines in his knack for leading high-performing teams, especially on large, complex projects. He excels in absorbing, synthesizing, and communicating intricate project details to suit his audience. Fei’s expertise spans master planning, stakeholder engagement, design and construction management, procurement, scheduling, and contract administration. With Fei in charge, projects don’t just get managed; they thrive, driven toward exceptional outcomes.
Jim is a results-driven leader and senior project manager with over a decade of experience in the development and delivery of complex infrastructure and engineering projects across global and highly regulated environments. Jim is a Chartered Engineer in both Civil Engineering, and Leadership & Management, with academic foundations in civil engineering and construction law – he brings a rare combination of technical expertise, legal insight, and commercial acumen to project delivery.
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Joel Casey is a results-driven Senior Project Manager with a wealth of experience delivering complex infrastructure and capital facilities. With a proven track record across transport, energy and government sectors, Joel expertly guides projects from inception through to operational handover.
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Joel is known for his strategic leadership and his ability to distil complex project data into clear, actionable insights. By fostering strong team culture and clear direction, Joel ensures critical projects are completed safely, on time and within budget.
Syne is detail orientated and highly committed project manager and quantity surveyor who has over 12 years’ experience in the construction industry. Syne’s experience spans the industrial, commercial, health and social infrastructure, and transportation sectors, having worked with consultancy firms in Australia, Singapore & Malaysia.
The combination of Syne’s project management and quantity surveying background provides Syne with a strong foundation of experience in procurement, construction contract administration and superintendence, and cost management, and when coupled with her exposure to process improvements and change management the result is Syne’s well rounded capability. Her experience in delivering projects within operational environments has strengthened her stakeholder and change management skill set also and enables Syne to always places the end user’s needs at the centre of mind when considering the solution to issues.
Syne’s broad range of experience offers a versatile skillset, including:
Ally is a results-driven professional with 15 years of experience in various property sectors and project development, spanning from concept design through to execution and delivery. With a strong background in stakeholder engagement, strategic planning and project positioning, property financial modelling, sales and marketing, and the procurement and management of consultants and principal contractors, she has successfully led complex mixed-use projects across diverse sectors including, residential, healthcare and industrial.
Ally’s versatile skill set and capabilities span the entire project life cycle, encompassing:
Ally’s strength lies in translating business objectives into actionable project plans, performing feasibility studies and obtaining necessary authority approvals to ensure alignment with the organisation’s goals.
Sam has over eight years’ international accounting experience, supporting clients across different industries. With the past three years focused on Australian bookkeeping and account management, she excels at navigating diverse business needs.
Sam brings both a practical and detail-oriented approach to her work. She enjoys the balance of numbers and people—applying analytical thinking while building strong, reliable relationships with clients and colleagues alike.
Michelle has over 6 years’ experience in the construction industry working in various sectors including commercial, residential, rail and social infrastructure.
Commencing her career working as a structural engineer, Michelle is passionate about the built environment and the multidisciplinary aspect the industry offers. She harnesses both a creative and analytical mindset to solve problems. As a Project Manager, Michelle has been involved in the delivery of several successful education projects and has been exposed to various stages of the project life cycle, from masterplanning through to authority approvals, design, procurement of head contractor, contract execution, construction, commissioning, and handover.
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Michelle has a demonstrated track record of delivering precise and high-quality outputs, that contribute to successful project outcomes. Her proficiency extends to effective stakeholder management, and she is widely acknowledged for her ability to foster lasting relationships with clients, key stakeholders, and contractors alike.
Charlie is a driven project management and engineering professional with a strong foundation in structured project delivery, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation across high-value, technically complex infrastructure projects. With over four years’ experience delivering projects, he brings a balanced mix of technical insight, commercial awareness, and adaptability to every engagement. Charlie has comprehensive client-side PM experience complemented by design management and on-site engineering expertise. This combination enables him to manage projects seamlessly through design and delivery, aligning stakeholder priorities with technical and commercial outcomes.
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Charlie is known for his professionalism, collaborative approach, and ability to build strong, lasting relationships. With a focus on achieving outcomes that meet client expectations while delivering long-term value, Charlie is passionate about transformative infrastructure and sustainable engineering. He is committed to delivering projects that make a meaningful, enduring impact.
Oliver Richards is a multidisciplinary construction professional with over 20 years of experience spanning project management, building surveying, and superintendent services across the UK. Oliver has delivered and administered complex construction projects across civil, public, commercial, educational, and heritage sectors, bringing a practical, technically grounded approach to every engagement.
His background as a qualified carpenter and building surveyor is a genuine differentiator – underpinning a thorough understanding of building pathology, defect analysis, and technical due diligence that enables him to identify issues early, develop robust scopes of work, and drive quality outcomes across the design, procurement, and delivery phases of complex projects.
As a qualified NEC Supervisor, Oliver is accustomed to providing superintendent services; conducting proactive inspections, administering contractual obligations, and maintaining quality assurance throughout construction. Oliver brings the contractual rigour, technical grounding, and experience from significant construction projects that provide a strong and effective foundation for the Superintendent role under Australian Standard contracts.
Oliver is widely recognised for his ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients, key stakeholders, and contractors alike. His clear communication style and collaborative approach enable him to manage competing priorities effectively, foster trust across project teams, and ensure all parties remain aligned throughout the project lifecycle.
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Jack brings five years of transport planning, appraisal, and advisory experience with a primary focus on freight and logistics. His expertise spans fleet management and future mobility, encompassing alternative fuels, freight consolidation, and supply chain future proofing.
Prior to joining Modalus, Jack worked for AECOM and WSP in the UK, where he worked on projects of significant scale and complexity. These included the electrification of the UK’s largest bus fleet, airport master planning advisory, alternative fuels research for niche vehicle applications (like trucks and buses), and business case and feasibility development for site selection.
Jack’s experience lies in specialist advisory in several areas:
Nabiha is a seasoned and ambitious project management professional with robust infrastructure experience across a diverse range of projects. She is recognised for her ability to consistently deliver successful project outcomes and drive strategic initiatives. With a proven track record in managing significant transport and civil infrastructure projects, Nabiha effectively engages stakeholders to ensure positive project results. Her proficiency in project and program management coupled with strong engineering and commercial acumen has led to the successful delivery of complex infrastructure works safely, on time and within budget. Nabiha excels in leading multi-disciplinary teams and tailoring her communication to resonate with all levels of project organisations.
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Elham Faiz is a driven and accomplished project manager with a strong background in engineering, construction, and infrastructure delivery. With a wealth of experience across high-profile transport and logistics projects, Elham brings a proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and navigate complex stakeholder environments. His strengths lie in managing the full project lifecycle, with a deep focus on quality, safety, stakeholder engagement, and efficient delivery in high-pressure settings.
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Jess is an accomplished civil engineer and project management professional with nine years of infrastructure experience across consultancy and client-side delivery roles. She is recognised for her ability to lead complex schemes from early concept through to handover and to bring multi-disciplinary teams together around clear delivery outcomes. With a track record across major UK highway improvement programmes, complex civil and building projects, and current Australian civil infrastructure delivery, Jess engages stakeholders effectively to drive positive project outcomes.
Her project management experience, technical engineering background, and fluency across both Australian and UK design standards combine to deliver complex infrastructure works on programme and on budget. Jess excels at leading multi-disciplinary teams and tailoring her communication to clients, councillors, consultants, contractors and community stakeholders alike.
Planning: Developing project briefs and concept options for civil infrastructure schemes.
Sustainable Design: Embedding sustainable drainage, rainwater harvesting and material-efficient design into civil schemes, contributing to sustainability and carbon-reduction targets.
Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders, including clients, councillors, design teams, contractors and community groups.
Design Management: Leading the design process from early concept through issue for construction, integrating disciplines on technically constrained sites.
Procurement: Managing the procurement of surveys, design consultants and construction packages.
Project and Programme Management: Delivering individual civil schemes and supporting programme-level oversight on a portfolio of UK highway major improvement schemes.
Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules and applying Lean tools, including value stream mapping, to improve reporting accuracy and consistency.
Risk Management: Identifying and managing project risks through early warnings, compensation events and proactive technical advice to prevent delays and cost overruns.
Commercial and Contract Administration: Contract administration and site supervision, with experience managing change, defects and applications for payment.
Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects through construction and into operational readiness with attention to buildability and client outcomes.
Raymond is a results-driven Civil Engineer (with Architecture) with nine years of experience delivering and managing major infrastructure projects across NSW and Outerstate. Transitioning from senior engineering delivery roles into project management, Raymond brings a hands-on technical foundation combined with strong commercial and client-side advisory capability. He has managed complex procurement processes, multi-discipline design coordination, and multi-authority utility interfaces as a client-side Project Manager, while maintaining the technical depth built across landmark construction projects.
He has contributed to landmark projects including Sydney Metro, Warringah Freeway Upgrade, Parramatta Light Rail, and WestConnex. His experience includes delivering a 190m steel pedestrian bridge over 16 live lanes, strengthening bridges to extend their design life, and constructing a light rail through Parramatta CBD.
Raymond’s capabilities span the full project lifecycle, including:
Master Planning & Methodology: Developing practical staging and construction strategies in infrastructure project such as live traYic and rail corridors and more.
Design Management: Challenging and refining design to improve constructibility and drive cost savings.
Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinating effectively with clients, authorities, subcontractors, and communities.
Commercial & Contract Management: Managing budgets up to multimillion projects, forecasting, cost control, and securing variations.
Procurement & Programme Delivery: Managing subcontractors, long-lead items, and tight possession programs.
Quality & Compliance: Overseeing QA, testing, commissioning, and regulatory compliance.
Technical Expertise: Applying 3D modelling, monitoring systems, and data analysis to manage construction risk.
Project Handover: Driving structured, timely completion to operational readiness.
Raymond brings a rare combination of construction-side delivery experience and clientside project management capability. Having operated across both disciplines, he understands how decisions made in design and procurement directly affect construction outcomes and uses that insight to drive smarter, more efficient solutions without compromising safety or quality. Commercially sharp and technically grounded, Raymond consistently adds value across the full project lifecycle from challenging design to securing favourable contract outcomes, while keeping teams aligned, stakeholders informed, and projects moving forward with confidence and precision.
Gimhan Perera is a motivated and detail-oriented project management professional with three years of experience supporting the delivery of complex industrial and commercial developments. With a background in both planning and construction delivery roles, he has contributed to several high-profile projects, gaining hands on experience across the project lifecycle from development applications through to construction and handover.
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Vince is an ambitious and results-driven professional with over 4 years of experience within the construction industry. He has a proven track record of delivering infrastructure and land development projects. With a background in civil engineering, Vince brings a strong foundation in engineering design, reporting and construction management. He brings technical expertise and project management skills to deliver complex developments from planning through to completion.
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Vince is recognised for combining technical engineering experience with strong organisational and leadership skills. His ability to translate technical details into clear outcomes allows him to bridge the gap between design and delivery—helping projects move efficiently from concept to completion.
Our new Project Manager joining our Sydney Industrial team is a highly skilled project management professional, who has extensive experience delivering exceptional project and program outcomes for a range of government clients including Defence, Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Parliament House (APH). She combines practical skills in communication and stakeholder engagement, with project knowledge, to lead and deliver complex activities across all aspects of the project lifecycle and is experienced as a PM/CA (Project Management Contract Administrator), working embedded as a client-side Project Manager in clients teams and in a PMO (Program Management Office) environment.
Our new Senior Project Manager joining our Sydney Industrial team is a results driven project management professional with over 12 years of industry experience spanning across commercial, infrastructure and complex construction projects. He has a diverse set of capabilities and background from having performed roles as a superintendent’s representative / engineer to contract, consultant project manager, construction project engineer, quantity surveyor, and most recently has spent the last 4 years as consortium manager of a $750m Public Private Partnership for NZ Justice Department.
Radim has over 20 years’ experience in project and design management, Interface Management, Design co-ordination, construction surveillance and supervision in a wide range of transport and infrastructure projects. He has undertaken projects for a range of private clients and government agencies including TfNSW, RMS, Sydney Trains, SACL and Hutchison Ports.
Through his wide-ranging involvement on major infrastructure and building developments, Radim has gained a deep understanding and knowledge required to deliver large scale multidisciplinary projects.
Radim brings a wealth of qualifications and skills to the table, including:
Dan has over 15 years’ experience as a construction industry professional working in both Australia (12 years) and the Middle East (5 years).
He has extensive experience across industrial, resource, infrastructure and commercial developments, working for D+C Main Contractors and Client-side consultancy services.
Dan’s skills and capabilities span the whole project life cycle from business case through to funding, authorities, procurement, delivery and completion.
With a background in Electrical Engineering and Building Services, Dan also specializes in providing technical solutions, integration of specialist equipment, and methodologies for delivering and commissioning complex MEP and ITC infrastructure.
Dan has also formed and managed a variety of ECI and D+C contract types for complex projects and is an experienced Project Director and Superintendent. He brings a wealth of complex technical and contractual experience, adding value across the lifecycle of your project:
Christopher Gardner ChPP is chartered project manager with a diverse background having worked in five continents (Europe, central Aisia, central Africa, South America, Australia), across different sectors in both infrastructure and buildings. He brings a wealth of experience in leadership, management and delivery expertise, providing a unique service offering to clients. With a proven track record in managing mega projects and forming successful teams, Chris has a history of success across the whole project life cycle.
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Chris’ charismatic and professional approach draw together the different specialities needed for a project into one, high-functioning team, ensuing successful project delivery. He is also adept at supporting clients in the strategic management and direction of projects. Chris can successfully work and communicate across the full breadth of the project team and lifecycle.
