Advisory Club Sundowner

Grant is the Managing Director of Relationships WA & SA for Judo Bank – a specialised challenger bank dedicated to supporting Australian SMEs.

Grant has built his banking career through relationship and leadership roles across Business, Corporate and Institutional banking. In addition to banking, Grant has extensive business leadership and strategy experience across the commercial sector having held executive roles in national distribution businesses, set up international subsidiaries and worked in high-tech start-ups.

He holds a Masters of Professional Accounting from Southern Cross University; a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics with majors in Economics & Finance from the University of Sydney; and has also undertaken post graduate studies in International Politics. Grant is a proud member of the Sorrento Surf Club where he is a volunteer surf lifeguard throughout the summer season, an active triathlete and triathlon coach to his children.

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 Rachel Burdett is a Partner at Cor Cordis and the National President of the Australian Restructuring, Insolvency, and Turnaround Association (ARITA), where she was re-elected for a second term in 2024.

With over three decades of experience, Rachel specialises in distressed debt advisory, business stabilisation and turnaround, solvent liquidations, and formal insolvency appointments. Her career has spanned across executive roles in restructuring and risk management within both chartered accounting firms and the banking industry.

She is the founding partner of the Cor Cordis National Women’s Forum, which is now in its eighth year, and she leads the firm’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. Recognised for her contributions, Rachel was honoured as the 2024 Outstanding Female of the Year by Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Victoria (WIRV).

In addition to her leadership roles at Cor Cordis, Rachel is an ARITA Fellow, Chair of the ARITA/ASIC/AFSA Liaison Committee, and a committee member of ARITA’s Balanced Taskforce, focusing on DEI initiatives. She is also an active member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), and the ASIC Insolvency Practitioners Liaison Committee for Victoria.