Management Controls Expands APAC Leadership with Key Appointments to Drive Growth in Australia
Management Controls, Inc. (MCi), a global leader in contractor spend optimisation, has announced two senior leadership appointments in Australia as part of its strategy to accelerate growth across the country and the wider Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The move reflects the company’s commitment to strengthening its regional presence and deepening partnerships with major industrial clients in sectors such as metals, mining, and oil and gas.
The new appointments bring extensive experience in strategy, operations, and client engagement, reinforcing MCi’s ability to support complex contractor management programs across large-scale industrial projects.
Strengthening Strategy and Market Expansion
Kelly McLennan has joined MCi as Senior Director of Strategy & Growth, where she will be responsible for shaping and executing the company’s growth strategy across Australia. In this role, she will focus on identifying strategic partnerships, prioritising investments, and expanding MCi’s contractor spend optimisation capabilities throughout the region.
McLennan’s appointment is expected to play a critical role in positioning MCi for long-term expansion in Australia’s resource-driven industries. By aligning growth initiatives with client needs, she will help drive adoption of MCi’s technology-enabled solutions, which are designed to improve cost control, transparency, and operational efficiency across contractor-intensive environments.
Enhancing Client Operations and Workforce Scaling
Brooke Hedger has joined MCi as Senior Director of Client Growth, where she will oversee client operations and support the scaling of the company’s Australian workforce. With a background in human capital and operational leadership, Hedger brings valuable experience from her previous role as a director at Deloitte.
Her focus will be on delivering high-impact outcomes for clients while ensuring the company’s operational capabilities keep pace with its expanding footprint. By strengthening service delivery and workforce readiness, she will help support MCi’s next phase of growth across key industries.
Supporting APAC Expansion Under New Regional Leadership
These appointments further strengthen MCi’s regional leadership team under Erin McCarthy, Chief Revenue Officer, who is leading the company’s expansion efforts across APAC. The enhanced leadership structure reflects MCi’s strategy to work more closely with owner-operators and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms.
The company aims to transform how contractor spend is managed across maintenance activities, shutdowns, turnarounds, and capital projects—areas where cost visibility and operational efficiency are critical to success.
Ken Naughton, President of MCi, emphasised the importance of the new hires in advancing the company’s regional ambitions.
He noted that with McCarthy’s leadership in APAC, the company is intensifying its focus on metals, mining, and oil and gas sectors. According to Naughton, the addition of McLennan and Hedger significantly strengthens MCi’s leadership capabilities in Australia and positions the company to build deeper, more strategic partnerships with clients seeking to optimise and transform contractor spend.
Positioning for Long-Term Regional Growth
As industrial organisations across APAC continue to face cost pressures and increasing operational complexity, MCi’s expansion strategy is aimed at delivering greater value through data-driven contractor management solutions. By investing in experienced leadership and scaling its local presence, the company is positioning itself to capture growing demand for optimisation services across large-scale industrial operations.
The appointments of McLennan and Hedger mark an important step in MCi’s broader regional strategy, reinforcing its commitment to Australia as a key growth market and to the wider APAC region as a long-term focus for expansion.
About MCi
MCi is a global technology company specialising in contractor spend optimisation, supporting owner-operators and EPCs across maintenance, shutdowns, turnarounds, and capital projects. MCi operates globally across APAC, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
