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Ian Carson

Contact details:
 + 61 3 9269 4207 

Ian is a Managing Partner in Melbourne PPB office and a PPB Board member.

Background and significant appointments 

Ian Carson is a highly experienced advisor, specialising in crisis response. He is uniquely placed to provide independent leadership and to coordinate responses for organisations facing major issues.
For over 30 years, he has been instrumental in turning around organisations in crisis and helped clients to protect their financial positions and reputations.
Recent examples include:
  • Leading the ANZ securities lending review on behalf of PPB;
  • Advising MFS Living Leisure on restructure and recapitalisation;
  • Turnaround of global $6 billion paper industry business;
  • Advisor to global property trust - $2 billion in assets;
  • Parmalat, Ian lead the team advising Australian Banking Syndicate; and
  • Reach Telecommunications, strategic advice to banking Syndicate.

Industry experience and specialised expertise

Ian’s specialist skills include communicating with stakeholders, ensuring highly collaborative outcomes and risk management. He is renowned for his considered views and discretion and he is sought out by Boards as a trusted advisor.
While Ian’s career has exposed him to a large number of industries and issues, he has particular knowledge and experience in the following:
  • Financial Services;
  • Property; and
  • Managed Investment Schemes.

Qualifications and memberships

Ian represented the Australian Institute of Company Directors on the Voluntary Administration Law Reform Committee, of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia and is a member the Federal Court Insolvency Users Group.
He is currently a Board member and Victorian Managing Partner of advisory firm PPB. Previously he chaired PPB from 2000 to 2009.

  • Currently completing “Owner President Manager” course, Harvard Business School
  • Bachelor of Economics, Monash University
  • Post Graduate Diploma of Accounting, LaTrobe University
  • Fellow of the Institute of Directors
  • Official Liquidator
  • Chairman SecondBite – a not for profit organisation which provides food for those in need
  • Board Member Preston & Northcote Community Hospital, 1992 – 1996
  • Ian lead the PPB team that supported the successful settlement by Diego for Thalidomide Victims in 2010