Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The University of Queensland
- Scholarship Recipient
- Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence
- Impact Academy Capstone
He has strong stakeholder engagement capabilities, working across Government, delivery partners, and executive leadership to build alignment on complex initiatives and provide clear, strategic advice to support decision-making.
Underpinned by an MBA, Ben brings strong commercial and transaction capability, with experience supporting procurement processes, developing delivery models, and preparing market-facing documentation. He combines analytical problem-solving with a practical understanding of project delivery to develop strategies that are both commercially viable and implementable.
Project Management – leads complex infrastructure works and strategic workstreams from planning through delivery, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing interfaces across stakeholders to ensure aligned and efficient outcomes.
Commercial & Financial Management – advises on commercial arrangements, contract models, and risk allocation within major infrastructure programs to support informed decision-making.
Delivery Strategy Analysis - develops and assesses delivery strategies, including optioneering, market engagement approaches and risk allocation, to identify commercially viable and implementable solutions.
Stakeholder Management – builds collaborative relationships with utilities, operators, Government agencies and delivery partners, managing complex interfaces in live environments and maintaining alignment across competing priorities.
Construction & Delivery Management – experience delivering major station and tunnel works in constrained urban environments, ensuring safe and efficient operations while driving constructability and delivery improvements.
IAG was engaged, via TMR's Program Management and Delivery (PMD) Division, to analyse the project's Delivery Strategy options using TMR's Delivery Strategy Analysis (DSA) framework. Ben lead engagement with the Project team to produce materials and prepare for a workshop to enable internal and external specialists to critically assess shortlisted delivery strategies and build confidence in their preferred option.
Ben was engaged, via TMR's Program Management and Delivery (PMD) Division, to help validate the project team's Delivery Strategy using TMR's Delivery Strategy Analysis (DSA) framework. Ben worked with the project team to develop project profile documents and workshop materials to enable internal and external specialists to critically assess shortlisted delivery strategies and build confidence in their preferred option.
Ben is supporting TMR as its external delivery partner for The Collaborative Project, embedding collaboration as standard practice across procurement and delivery and address industry challenges such as adversarial contracting, cultural issues, and delivery inefficiencies. Ben worked with TMR to design and implement a collaborative procurement and delivery model, including a Guided Collaboration Toolkit, to be integrated into TMR's project system. Ben has been providing specialist commercial and transaction advice, shaping solutions to industry barriers. His work has included delivery strategy analysis, program and packaging guidance, demonstration project workshop development and updates to the revised TIPDS. He continues to support TMR's client team and develop a reputation as a trusted advisor to TMR.
Ben was the client-side lead for Roma Street Station, part of the $6.3B+ TSD contact within the Cross River Rail program. He oversaw delivery of the new underground station at Roma Street in a highly constrained, live urban environment.
Ben was the client-side engineer for Albert Street Station from site establishment through completion of excavation of the 290m-long cavern and two 50m deep entry buildings, as part of the $6.3B+ TSD Package.