Your Need

Is your organisation positioned to seize opportunities as they arise? Have you the necessary information to make informed decisions at critical times?


In today’s global society, businesses and governments continually face new opportunities and encounter challenges that are fundamental to survival and success.

Success depends on being positioned to capture the opportunities and navigate the challenges as they occur.

Are you and your organisation ready?

What if you could...
move quickly on opportunities and challenges by calling on a dedicated team you can trust?

Our Offer

  /  distinctiveness

Venturenauts is different from the typical consulting firms you might use.


  • We send our principals on the job for you, personally driving what you want achieved
  • We consult your stakeholders, providing an unbiased picture of what is required
  • You will not get a ‘plain vanilla’ solution from us. We research the latest thinking and practice, tailoring our solutions to meet your unique circumstances
  • You will not get a report from us that simply recommends a way forward. We develop action plans, bringing our experience to implement solutions
  • We work seamlessly across your organisation, building teams and projects that deliver
  • We build your organisational capability, facilitating sustainable outcomes

With our strong commitment to discretion, integrity and forging a lasting relationship with you, Venturenauts truly is distinctive.

We are personal
through being on the job for you, seamlessly
helping to implement solutions and build your
organisation’s capability

Our Offer

  /  services

Venturenauts helps businesses and governments accelerate business opportunities and solve problems. We focus on Australia and Asia, but will help you wherever you need us.

In Business

We help create and build successful businesses, working with investors and management:
  • Explore commercial ventures to grow market competitive businesses
  • Build strategic and operational business performance to capture growth opportunities
  • Partner with government, research institutions and other stakeholders to tackle challenges

In Government

We help develop business enabling policy and regulatory environments, working with ministers and executives:
  • Strengthen a region’s innovation capacity to grow globally competitive industries
  • Reform regulatory environments to enhance economic and social development
  • Improve the performance of government organisations to maximise service delivery outcomes
We work with
you to solve problems and accelerate business opportunities that target growth, competitiveness
and revitalisation

Our Offer

  /  capabilities

Venturenauts is known for exceptional leadership and successfully creating visionary stories that unite diverse stakeholders in common action and achievement.


Our team’s achievements are diverse - be it reengineering large businesses top to bottom, establishing commercial ventures, or leading and driving policy reform agendas. Venturenauts is highly flexible and adaptable to different challenges.

We are proven strategic thinkers and implementers in successfully tackling complex opportunities and problems having worked at senior levels in business and government. We understand the needs and language of business and government.

With our blend of finance, legal, commercial, research and policy experience, Venturenauts brings a valuable perspective that complements the way investors, CEOs, Boards and governments look at opportunities and problems.

Through our global networks in business, government and academia, we bring a wide range of expertise to ensure successful results.

We are proven
strategists and implementers for business and government and highly adaptable to different challenges

People

  /  team

Venturenauts is a versatile team with extensive, successful experience in business and government. Our managing directors have worked in Asia and Australia with successful careers in commercial management, professional consulting, policy reform and academia.

Experience includes:

  • Exploring market opportunities and establishing new commercial ventures
  • Advising businesses across a wide array of industries on growth strategies
  • Restructuring and reengineering under-performing organisations
  • Assessing the strategic and operational implications of policy positions and environments on business, community and government
  • Leading significant government policy agendas in industry development and regulatory reform that support economic and social development
  • Forming productive working partnerships between stakeholders in business, government and academia that tackle important issues
Get To Know Us
We understand
the commercial and policy drivers that achieve economic success for businesses, industry and economies.

People

  /  managing directors

Peter McKenna

Chartered Accountant (MBA DipInfmProc BComm ACA MAICD AIMM)

Peter has over 24 years experience in managing commercial organisations, advising private and public enterprises with professional consulting firms and driving policy reform at national and state levels with governments. Peter also has 5 years experience in academia, researching and lecturing up to PhD level in business economics and management. A Master of Business Administration, Diploma in Information Processing and Bachelor of Commerce.


Eleanor Mak

Lawyer (BLaws BArts)

Eleanor has over 17 years experience in providing legal commercial/corporate advice to business and government in professional practice, advising on taxation matters and driving policy reform at national and state levels with governments. Eleanor is also familiar with the Cantonese, Hokkien, Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia languages. A Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts.

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We bring
perspectives, knowledge and skills from successful careers in business, government and academia.

People

  /  associations

Venturenauts accesses global networks in business, government and academia to ensure successful results are achieved.

Global Access Partners (GAP)
Venturenauts works with GAP, a proactive and influential network and public policy think tank, which specialises in bringing together creative thinkers and decision-makers in business, government, community and academia to address today’s most pressing commercial, social and global issues. www.globalaccesspartners.org

Social Media hosted by GAP
Open Form - www.openforum.com.au
An independent collaborative think-tank built around an interactive discussion website focused on social, political, economic, ecological and cultural issues and challenges.

First 5000 - www.first5000.com.au
A new business development alliance for Australia's most significant mid-size companies that connects and networks local and international big business as well as policy makers.

We access
global networks to ensure success

People

  /  conversations

Venturenauts value the power of conversations.


We recognise that success is founded on stories shared and experiences learnt from each other. So share your story. Ask a question. Explore an idea. Have a conversation.

Be a Venturenaut.


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We value
our conversations with you

Testimonials

What others say about Venturenauts. Find out for yourself.

"We operate throughout Asia and the Pacific and needed to template our joint venture arrangements with local partners in the different jurisdictions. This had to allow for regional differences. Venturenauts did a brilliant job getting it done in a way that was simple to implement."

Lindsay Thorpe - Founder and Director, PLACE Design Group
www.placedesigngroup.com

"Venturenauts have an impressive record of driving public policy reforms through understanding the needs of the private sector and the challenges it faces. They exhibit enormous talent, energy and commitment in every project they take on and GAP is pleased to recommend them as exceptional, trustworthy and hard-working partners."

Peter Fritz AM - Managing Director, Global Access Partners
www.globalaccesspartners.org

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We are distinctive
for our exceptional commitment to discretion, integrity and forging lasting relationships with you

Testimonials

"Great contributors! Eleanor and Peter played strong roles in our national task force developing appropriate policy frameworks to support cloud computing in Australia. They brought perspectives forged from working in business, government and academia."

Keith Besgrove - First Assistant Secretary, Dept. of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Australian Government

"I have a high-end fashion retail outlet in Vientiane with suppliers across Asia. Venturenauts guided me through the maze, understanding the Asian way, helping me establish win-win, long-term relationships with my suppliers, and strategically position my business for growth."

Rouchira Darasavath - Owner, @boutique Laos

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We are distinctive
for our exceptional commitment to discretion, integrity and forging lasting relationships with you

Testimonials

"Laos is building a regulatory environment that supports economic and social development and international trade commitments. Peter leads a key part - putting in place a Regulatory Impact Assessment regime across the Lao PDR. Peter works seamlessly across Lao PDR ministries, handling cultural and language barriers and building a vision, momentum and capability in an area completely new to Lao PDR staff."

Phanmany Khamphilavong - Project Economist, SME Development Program Partnership
Asian Development Bank and Lao PDR

"I met Peter and Eleanor when my company delivered an IT review project with the Queensland Government. This project was their initiative – fresh, innovative and bold - pioneering in its approach and outcomes to the use of IT in connecting government and business. They are highly innovative in their thinking and very capable in their implementing. A real strength is that they were masters at bringing people to action despite not being technical IT specialists themselves."

Pam Morris - CEO,Total Metrics - www.totalmetrics.com

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We are distinctive
for our exceptional commitment to discretion, integrity and forging lasting relationships with you

Testimonials

"Peter was a member of a task force of leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world that developed global perspectives and a way forward to improve the management of complex projects. Peter was in his element working and driving this global agenda with the other world experts."

Stephen Hayes MBE - CEO, International Centre for Complex Project Management
www.iccpm.com

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We are distinctive
for our exceptional commitment to discretion, integrity and forging lasting relationships with you