Pottinger (Australia)
Pottinger is a global corporate advisory firm, which provides: Pottinger has expertise across a wide range of industries, including infrastructure and utilities, energy and resources, property, technology, media and telecomms, and financial services. Pottinger Analytics is a specialist arm of the business that uses big data analytics to inform advice to clients, without the need to create and mine large data sets. The company has recently expanded operations into the United States, trading as Pottinger Global Advisors. The firm competes primarily against the corporate advisory teams of global investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and UBS , other M&A specialists such as Greenhill, Lazard and Gresham and the global consulting firms such as McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group. The company was founded by Nigel Lake and Cassandra Kelly in 2003 and has offices in Sydney and New York. Awards and recognition. The Australian Government acknowledged Pottinger as the national role model for effective skills development in financial services in 2012. Pottinger has received eight Australian Business Awards for recommended employer. Pottinger has been publicly recommended in the 2014 and 2015 official publications by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China. The Glass Elevator  initiative. In early 2012, Pottinger launched the Glass Elevator initiative, to support the development of greater diversity in the workforce. The initiative is designed to provide mentoring for mid to senior ranking female executives in major corporations, as well as engagement with some of Australia's most successful business leaders. The Glass Elevator names reflects the need for active organisational support from large organisations to ensure that problems associated with or evidenced by glass ceilings can be better addressed over time.