Our Senior People
Walter Partners is made up of a team of experienced consultants. Our lead advisors are:
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Don Walter is a Chartered Accountant and has had over 30 years general accounting, financial and corporate governance experience. Prior to commencing in practice Don was employed by Ernst & Young and Deloitte as a Senior Manager. He commenced his own practice in 1991 and WalterTurnbull in 1992. He commenced Walter Partners after WalterTurnbull was acquired by PwC in 2010. Don is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, a former councilor and Chairman of the ACT Division of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a former councillor of the NSW State Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a former national Director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. 

Don’s experience is predominantly in the fields of audit and assurance, governance, probity, costing, financial viability, risk analysis and financial services. He has worked on a wide range of clients in both the public, private and community sectors.

Contact Don at dwalter@walterpartners.com.au

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Len Withers holds Bachelor degrees in both Engineering and Law and is a Barrister and Solicitor and accredited Mediator.

He is qualified as a professional engineer and has worked in that capacity in the UK and Australia. Len spent over 20 years in the health industry, his last position being CEO of an 800 - bed, acute care, metropolitan teaching hospital. Although admitted as a legal practitioner in 1976, Len did not take up practice until 1997 at which point the concept of probity in Crown procurement arose.

Following a 25 year career in the Commonwealth and ACT Administrations (14 years at the level of Senior or Chief Executive) he moved into consultancy in February 1996. Since that time he has been predominantly engaged by Commonwealth, NSW governments and agencies and local councils in various roles of probity advising and tender management.

Contact Len at lwithers@walterpartners.com.au                                                     _________________________________________________________________________                                                                                
Karen Eaton is a Chartered Accountant who commenced her career in commercial accounting. Karen moved into public practice and consulting in 2000, gaining experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining the Walter Partners team in 2012.
Karen has experience in management accounting, financial analysis, internal and external audit, costing and financial viability reviews. Her clients have included NSW government agencies, Commonwealth Government agencies, public companies, large proprietary companies and many not for profit organisations.

Contact Karen at keaton@walterpartners.com.au
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