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Description: The Cultural Acumen Training program seeks to provide young Australians with a deeper understanding of minority cultures. The program has a pertinent focus of affording young people with a deeper understanding of the people groups from South Asia, East Asia and Africa. The program is being developed for several charitable organisations. A further variant of the program is being developed of a general audience. Program Manager: Prabath Wickramanayake Project Consultants: Mariana Lopez Contact: |
Mukund NarayanamurtiMukund is a Senior Manager in KPMG Australia’s dedicated Asia Markets Group and specializes in market entry advisory services focused on corporate investment activity between Australia and Asia with a particular emphasis on China and India. Mukund has advised on various significant cross border mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and corporate reorganizations in the infrastructure, energy and natural resources, consumer foods and financial services sectors. Mukund graduated from Deakin University in ... Read more |
Carlene D'RosarioCarlene is truly passionate about community development, with a recent trip to the Mekong region of Vietnam serving to catalyse this passion. Having spent time at Hoi Thien Thieu, one of Nexus' partner entities Carlene has a genuine understanding of the problem. Carlene spent time working and playing with the adolescents at the centre. She organised several trips and excursions for the children of the centre. She is passionate about ... Read more |
Brian D'RosarioBrian is truly passionate about community engagement and the growth of others. Born in Madras, India Brian understands the nature of poverty, and sees Nexus as a vehicle for positive and sustainable change. After spending his adolescence serving as a naval officer, Brian gave this career away to spend more time with his new family. Upon immigrating to Australia, Brian found himself working in the emerging area of Information technology, ... Read more |
John PersicoJohn has three years experience with KPMG's Corporate Finance practice in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity team. During this time, John has worked on a wide range of transactions alongside many of Australia's leading mid-market Private Equity funds. He has origination and executional experience in providing strategic analysis and financial modelling to small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across Australia.Prior to joining KPMG, John studied a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and Laws (Hons) at Deakin University, Melbourne. He was awarded the Badden Wuttenburg Scholarship (Germany) and Ronald Henderson ... Read more |
Prabath WickramanayakePrabath Wickramanayake was born in Colombo Sri Lanka in December 1982. He commenced his primary education at Nalanda College, Colombo in 1988 and continued up until he migrated to New Zealand in 1995 with his parents. At Newlands College in Wellington he completed his secondary education and in December 2000 he migrated to Australia. In 2006, Prabath graduated from Deakin University in Melbourne having successfully completed the degree of Bachelor ... Read more |
John SukkarJohn completed a double degree in Law and Commerce at Deakin University in 2007, graduating with Honours and Distinction respectively, and majoring in Finance and Economics. Since graduating, John has acquired over 12 months experience working with KPMG as a consultant within the Corporate Tax division, where he advised a range of corporate groups in the financial services sector on all areas of Australian taxation law. John is dedicated to ... Read more |
Michael D'RosarioMichael is a Lecturer in Finance & Ethics at Deakin University. Michael has also undertaken a Masters in Arts (International Justice) at the University of Melbourne, Michael's research focuses on morality, patriotism, and sovereignty. Michael's other research focuses on diaspora communities, game theory and development economics. In particular it is orientated around the individuals' moral assessment framework. He is currently undertaking his PhD in Econometrics. In addition Michael has completed ... Read more |
GovernanceNexus operates a member based model, with members duly appointing directors of the entity. Nexus is guided by a board of directors. The board appoints all key operational team... Read more |
Hope ScholarsThe Hope scholarship program provides funds to some of the poorest children in the developing world. It makes a university education or education at a vocational training centre possible. Many ... Read more |
Social EntrepreneurshipSocial entrepreneurship is essentially a reference to the actions of an agent of positive social change. A social entrepreneur is an individual who identifies a social problem and utilises what ... Read more |
The Nexus ModelWe recognise that many solutions while being theoretically sound do not necessary translate well in all situations. As such our programs are driven by the needs communities, and are motivated ... Read more |
Vision & MissionOur vision is for a world without poverty and free of conflict, where individuals live without fear of hunger and persecution. A world where compassion is not limited by contrived ... Read more |
Anchor Social Housing ProjectDescription: The Anchor Social Housing Project (AHP) is a venture of Anchor Inc. a foster care and community care agency based in the outer East of Melbourne. The project seeks ... Read more |
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Nexus News
A Nexus 'Hope Scholar' has been awarded the University medal. Sanjaya has graduated suma cum laude at one of the top universities in Sri Lanka. His is a remarkable story given a number of personal hardships that he has endured prior to commencing tertiary studies. We at Nexus would like to congratulate Sanjaya.