Vanessa Gavan

Founder & Joint Managing Director

A visionary founder shaping and challenging market-making agendas.

Since founding Maximus over two decades ago, Vanessa has built an extraordinary reputation as the visionary-challenger invited to partner with Australia’s most ambitious boards and executives.

By bringing a relentless obsession with purpose-driven impact, Vanessa ignites potential at scale.

Through her unique ability to see into people, through problems, and beyond the obvious, Vanessa drives and delivers disproportionate impact.

Vanessa reimagines possibilities. With a deeply held belief that limits are made to be broken, Vanessa challenges people and organisations to reimagine what’s possible.

Vanessa shapes agendas. Australia’s consequential leaders turn to Vanessa as they shape their ambitious agendas. A unique ability to see across markets and horizons, Vanessa plays at the centre of consequential choices that shape legacies.

Vanessa unlocks ambitions. Creatively assembling teams, infusing them with purpose and challenging them to be bolder – Vanessa unlocks ambition and potential.