Michelle Hone
Michelle joined Port Jackson Partners in 2006 as a
Business Analyst after receiving First Class Honours in a Bachelor of
Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Michelle was
a Co-Op scholar at university, which involved completing 18 months of
industrial
training across a wide range of industries including water
treatment, food and
beverages, refining, and construction project management.
Whilst at Port Jackson Partners, Michelle has worked in
the oil and gas, and building construction materials industries.
Examples of recent work
- Member of a cross-functional team for a large,
Australian oil and gas company to review its long term strategic
direction across all business units. In particular:
- Understanding the forces at work in the industry,
how these may impact the company in the future, and potential responses
- Generating a series of alternative long term
strategies the company could pursue
- Valuing each strategic option to identify the
highest value adding strategy
Highlights included making assessments of alternative raw material
sources, investigating processing upgrade and expansion alternatives,
determining the optimal infrastructure and identifying marketing growth
options.
Specifically, Michelle generated models to forecast long term
product margins based on underlying supply and demand, valued potential
acquisitions and assisted in communicating these ideas and those of the
team in a clear and compelling manner to senior management.
- Assisted an Australian construction materials
company to assess the value of an industry restructuring opportunity in
the timber industry.
Maintaining a work-life balance is a high priority for Michelle—her
other interests include participating in many sports, such as dragon
boating, touch football, indoor soccer, running and cycling, which have
been incorporated into office life through the Port Jackson Sharks
soccer team, annual Tennis Tournament, City-2-Surf team, Australian
Corporate Games team and participation in other Corporate events such
as the BRW triathlon.
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