Our Team
Peter Zangari, Managing Partner
Peter is a sought-after executive search practitioner and career architect with a growing list of clients and successful placements.
He brings deep experience in the public and private sectors to lead our team, recruiting high-quality C-suite, public policy and external affairs professionals for clients including ASX and US publicly-listed businesses, government agencies, industry associations and not-for-profit organisations.
Peter is a people person. He’s approachable. And he takes a long-term approach to building relationships and developing networks.
He cares for candidates, and as an accredited career coach, he puts a big emphasis on building careers and leadership capabilities for the long-term benefit of candidates and the organisations where they are employed.
Peter has worked extensively as a political advisor in Government across the Treasury, Infrastructure, Transport and Housing portfolios and as a campaign advisor covering State and Federal elections.
And together with his strong background as a public affairs consultant and senior in-house specialist in freight, shipping and financial services, he brings this unique experience to executive search and recruitment.
Peter’s advice and counsel on reputation management, public policy and government engagement remains a strength and is valued by our clients.
Having grown up in Sydney’s Inner West, he’s passionate about his city and his country and recognises the contribution of businesses big and small, east and west. An old-fashioned sense of community drives him to contribute to people that care and people that he cares about. Peter also continues to provide pro-bono support to a range of NFP and community-based organisations.
In the future, he wants to continue to help develop quality company infrastructure and community infrastructure, to help make our cities great places to live and work. Especially in his areas of strong interest including infrastructure, financial services and in Greater Western Sydney.
Peter holds a Bachelor of Communication from Western Sydney University, is an Executive Central accredited career coach and has completed the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs residential institute at the Melbourne Business School.
Read more about Peter’s experience on LinkedIn.
Kelly Mico, Principal Consultant
Kelly is a highly credentialled public affairs professional trusted to build brands and manage reputations in a variety of businesses and public sector agencies.
She has provided counsel to CEOs, executive leadership teams and boards and has worked closely with government ministers for over 20 years.
During this time, Sydney’s transport infrastructure has boomed and Kelly has been right at the centre of it. She’s successfully developed and implemented complex communication strategies for planning, building and launching new high-profile transport infrastructure and services.
She is known for her strategic thinking, calm nature and her ability to act decisively having worked across many key issues and crises over the years.
And Kelly is a change maker with a track record of creative strategies for major change and transformation projects.
Now as the head of our public affairs practice, she provides thoughtful strategic advice on stakeholder engagement, internal communication, media, governance and risk, brand and reputation management.
Kelly loves learning and big ideas, applying the science of what she’s learned to lead Greenway’s Public Affairs practice. Kelly has a Master of Arts in Communication Management (UTS), a Bachelor of Applied Science (UC) and a Certificate in Engagement from the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Australasia.
What Kelly likes more than anything else is helping clients to navigate complex environments, simplify their purpose and map a clear vision to help them achieve their goals.
Read more about Kelly’s experience on LinkedIn.