Lea Patterson
Lea Patterson co-chairs the Environment Sustainability Group at CAM-I
Lea Patterson studied electronics and computer engineering at the Queensland University of Technology and started his career as a Weapons Electrical Engineering Officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He left the navy to join a consulting firm in 1999 that would go on to be Pilbara Group. Pilbara Group’s area of expertise is the development of large-scale complex cost models for military, oil/gas, government, financial services and currently have a focus on Higher Education. Pilbara Group have developed their own Software as a Service solution, Pilbara Insights, that can be used for very large and complex cost, revenue and recently environmental models.
Jim Holman
Jim Holman chairs the Supply Chain Management Group at CAM-I
A Director within Cherry Bekaert’s Digital Advisory Group, Jim has more than 25 years of experience advising clients in digital transformation, IT strategy, optimization, manufacturing and distribution, and analytical reporting. Jim’s operational and technical expertise enables him to re-engineer business processes and deliver reliable solutions that blend the best technology and processes for meeting clients’ needs.
His expertise within the industrial sector includes manufacturing and distribution technology, business intelligence, shop floor data collection, and mobile solutions. Jim has assisted industrial clients with a diverse range of manufacturing environments such as discrete make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO), engineer-to-order (ETO), specialty chemical batch process, food and beverage, and consumer goods. Jim’s guidance also extends to the infrastructure requirements that run multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, using cloud-based and on-premises solutions.
Jim has a strong background in merger and acquisitions activities to include IT due diligence engagements, IT/ systems divesture projects and IT post-merger integration projects.
Before joining Chery Bekaert, Jim worked for a boutique consulting firm, as an IT director at a Fortune 500 specialty chemical company, and as a senior information technologist specializing in Microsoft Dynamics implementations