Our Team
Our team of specialists comprise businessmen and -women that in their own right are successful professionals in their areas of expertise. We have developed our best practice through being involved first-hand as business owners and advisors to other businesses - large and small.
Areas of specilization such as legal and tax consultation are contracted to professionals familiar with the relevant State, Federal and Local government regulations.
At Quasar Advisory we do not conduct our work from any one area of specialization such as accounting, legal, tax, marketing or human resources. Our work comprises all of these areas whilst we consider the business from a businessman's perspective.
Gerhard Combrinck
Gerhard is the principal of Quasar Advisory Services Pty Lrd. Having concluded a successful stint as a professional rugby player at the Blue Bulls and Golden Lions franchises in South Africa, Gerhard then continued his professional career first as a business owner, business consultant and private banking executive.
Prior to relocating to Australia Gerhard held an executive position at FNB Private Clients, one of South Africa's big four banks' private banking division. Since relocating to Australia's Sunshine Coast, Gerhard has worked for two of the world’s premier financial institutions—Capital Finance Australia, then a division of the Bank of Scotland and Westpac Banking Corporation.
Gerhard holds a Bachelors of Commerce with majors in human resource management and psychometric testing from Pretoria University (South Africa), a Master of Business Administration from Bond University (Australia) and a Diploma in Financial Services from Mentor Training (Australia).
Maree Thomson
Maree is an Associate of Quasar Advisory Services. She has over 30 years business experience in Australia, including successfully owning and managing her own small businesses as well as working for both public and private sector corporations. Maree's professional experience includes working for Westpac, Citistreet Australia (Precision), QSuper and MAP Funds where she worked in diverse management roles in the ares of marketing and communication, strategic planning and implementation, and people and operational management. Maree's experience affords her an ability to analyse both new business and existing business ventures as well as manage risk to grow the business and deliver results.
Maree has an intimate knowledge of the Australian business and political environment having worked for senior members of the Australian Government in advisory roles including the current Treasurer of the Australian Parliament. With a Bachelor of Business (Mkt) from Queensland University of Technology, Maree is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and an Associate of Australian Marketing Institute and Certified Practicing Marketer.
How we see it
In every sense in life - physical, emotional, spiritual, morally, in business and in finance - LIGHT represents that which is good, that which is to be known, that which is life. Without light plants don’t grow and without light we simply can’t see.
A quasar is a star-like galactic body, which is amongst the furthest and brightest in the known universe. In a business context a quasar represents a sense of understanding, trust and positive contribution from a long way off.
Similar to astronomers seeing a quasar’s light from afar, business investors coming to Australia use Quasar Advisory Services to gain understanding of the business they are about to invest in - to ‘see’ the forest from the trees.
What this means for our clients
Quasar Advisory clients gain a better understanding of their (target) business, not merely its financial statements. Therefore, our clients gain the opportunity to;
- Weigh up the pro’s and con’s of the business from an financial, operational, human resource, technological, marketing and sales point of view
- Determine their ‘fit for ownership and management’ of the target business
- Determine a reasonable price for the business
- Determine a suitable time scale for concluding the transaction