New South Wales

The NSW 2022 Pinnacle Awards Night was held on Thursday 24 November at Doltone House Hyde Park. Congratulations to the 2022 winners:

Credit Manager of the Year

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Maria Grigoriadis MICM National Credit Manager, Hanson Construction

After being appointed National Credit Manager in late 2021, Maria embarked on a journey of optimisation within the credit function that involved streamlining processes and creating efficiencies. The judges were particularly moved by her comprehensive responses and impressive statistics that helped them to better appreciate the impact of Maria’s efforts and successes in implementing important changes over the past year.

Maria’s employer commented that she has been a critical subject matter expert in credit matters and has been valuable to making the centralisation of credit function successful, some of the tasks Maria has been involved in: Managing onboarding, training and recruitment of credit specialists to join her expanding team; Managing risks/credit assessments; Developing standard operating models and structure of the new team; Mentoring and guiding 21 staff in receivables and collections; Implementing controls and procedures for the new team; Working with key stakeholders across the business to ensure a smooth transition and Working with key stakeholder to clear up long outstanding debt from other states/regions and master data standardisation issues before centralisation.

Legal Representative of the Year

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Andrew Tanna MICM Special Counsel, Holman Webb Lawyers Collection Services

Andrew is a driven and committed legal professional with an interest in innovation and understanding his client’s processes and needs. The judges were impressed by Andrew’s practical and legal knowledge and how he illustrated this through specific examples of achieving success for his clients during the challenging COVID-19 period.

Andrew’s client commented that he has a strong ability to draw reasonable and logical assumptions from limited information. He is admired for his great research, analytical, leadership, persuasive, and communication skills including public speaking. Andrew has won a large majority of cases and is extremely thorough. He is persistent and has outshined in every legal matter they have had to date against opposition, administrators, liquidators, and bankruptcy trustees. Andrew remains calm in crisis, is very personable and easily gains the trust of clients and others alike.