Interim Chief Operating Officer

Mr Peter Prest, Chief Operating Officer

Peter Prest, Interim Chief Operating Officer, University Operations

Peter's career has focused on strategic planning, corporate performance, decision-critical information provision and the underlying organisational structures and systems that support this environment.

Peter has broad commercial, general management and non-executive director experience in large and complex organisations in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand across a range of industries. I currently lead the Division of University Operations at The University of Adelaide.

Peter's skills and experience are complemented by a philosophy of building high performing teams in a continuous improvement culture and providing structure and clarity around operational and strategic decisions.

Peter has been involved in numerous change management initiatives including implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, the re-engineering of organisation-wide systems and processes and the alignment of organisational capabilities and structures.