Meet the team that will give you the edge.

Our consultants have extensive experience gained across many industries. Together, our expertise covers all major areas, including strategy development, business process improvement, technology implementation and more. 

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Trevor Vas

CEO & Principal Consultant

tvas@hcms.com.au | +61 498 340 077

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Trevor has extensive experience in the recruitment, information technology and finance industries. His ability to innovate and then delivering the vision with precision, energy, passion, creativity and most of all, persistence.

Trevor established Human Capital Management Solutions (HCMS) in 2000, Insidejob in 2005 and the Australasian Talent Conference (ATC) in 2007. HCMS realised a vision to create a unique and independent consulting business to revolutionise recruitment practices. Insidejob recruits corporate recruitment professionals and provides unique capability-based recruiter assessments and training programs. The ATC specialises in creating events on sourcing and engaging candidates, talent management and the contingent workforce.

Trevor is well on the way to achieving his vision having successfully sold and delivered major projects to corporations such as Qantas, Telstra, Coles, Myer, Westpac, Suncorp, NZ Post, Air New Zealand, Vodafone and others.

Sonia Tammaro

Principal Consultant

sonia@innov8te.com.au | +61 488 992 874

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Sonia is the owner and Principal Consultant of Innov8te. She is a senior Human Resources professional with extensive experience in consulting, Talent Acquisition, facilitation and change management. She has led both small and large teams within in-house and consulting organisations with a key focus on strategic improvement, innovation and stakeholder management.

She has consulted to many of Australia and New Zealand’s leading organisations to design, implement and/or manage contemporary Talent Acquisition functions. Sonia has led high profile and complex projects that have required significant organisational change.

As well as having owned and operated her own business, her experience spans large consulting projects and leadership or in-sourced, outsourced (RPO) and hybrid resourcing solutions.

Simon Townsend

Principal Consultant

simon@twelve2.net | +61 448 073 425

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SImon is a Design Thinking professional who specialises in Human Capital. Focusing on the human element of innovation, he is a strong believer that everyone can help define and sculpt the future and he works to develop teams using tested Design Thinking techniques. With his eye on the long term future of business, Simon demystifies technological advances and social media strategies to provide simple-to-implement approaches to recruitment processes and talent sourcing.

In his time as Innovation Manager for Deloitte and Chief Innovation Officer APAC for Allegis Global Solutions, Simon honed his Design Thinking skills and he has trained one on one with Professors from Insead, Standford and UC Berkeley. He is also a member of the Sydney Digital Disruption Research Group and spent two years assessing startups for inclusion in the TalentTech Labs incubator based out of New York.

Simon is now Principal and Founder of twelve2 – a talent management consulting firm.