An engineer’s eye for strategy

Yann Parer is a French-Australian independent adviser living and working between Melbourne and Tokyo, Principal Consultant at PQ Partners and founder of YP Consult.

Yann trained as a civil-geotechnical engineer and earth scientist at Monash University and started his career in Australian iron-ore mining as a geotechnical project engineer with Rio Tinto from 2012 to 2016. It taught him how real assets behave, and what actually drives cost and risk in resource-intensive businesses.

An INSEAD MBA followed, then strategy consulting with McKinsey & Company, including McKinsey Digital, and later Orica. Today he is a Principal Consultant at PQ Partners, a Melbourne capital-investment advisory firm, while running his independent practice, YP Consult, founded in 2021.

His work sits where engineering rigour meets commercial strategy: group strategy and value-chain optimisation, operating-model and organisation design, accountability frameworks such as RASCI, business transformation, and the commercial case for sustainability.

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Engineer’s rigour
Decisions grounded in how assets and value actually behave, not slideware.

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Owner’s lens
I treat your capital like my own. The recommendation is the one I’d back.

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Built to land
Strategy that survives contact with delivery, and the people who have to execute it.

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