meet our team

Terry Cuddy

Director Government Relations

Award winning strategist in both Government and PR, Terry has been at the forefront of many iconic campaigns throughout Victoria, Australia and overseas. Renowned as a creative and strategic thinker, Terry has the gift to join up the dots, take in a range of scenarios, develop unique and individual blueprints and make every journey memorable as well as successful. Equipped with enormous knowledge in a wide range of industries spanning mining to education, defence to health, sport to new technologies, Terry has the skills to make people listen and engage.

Kim Watts

Finance Manager

Group General Manager Kim Watts applies her business development expertise and experience to enhance our clients’ commercial ventures. New businesses will benefit from Kim’s advice around organisational structure, existing operations have the chance to gain validation of their business case and company secretariat services performed to the highest corporate governance level is part of the Markstone Corporate Advice offering.

Kristi High

Director Media and Public Relations, Business Development Manager

There is more to achieving good public relations outcomes than counting column centimeters in the local paper. No longer is the daily newspaper the only source of good, credible, reliable and frequent information. Kristi High develops pathways for our clients to best communicate with their target audience using a range of new and old media. Drawing on her background in journalism and extensive experience in PR, Kristi will work with you to create a strategy that leads to clear results.

Douglas Townsend

Successful business strategist Douglas Townsend works predominantly in the Corporate Advice area of Markstone. Always thinking globally, Doug enhances our clients’ commercial opportunities by creating partnerships and forging relationships between like-minded individuals and companies, and executing well thought-out plans and strategies. Doug currently sits on the Board of a not-for-profit health organisation and a number of private companies.