Our Team
The management and board of Southern Cross Protection is a highly skilled and experienced team based in our head office in Pyrmont, Sydney. The team is led by Managing Director Patrick Bourke.
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Patrick Bourke Non-Executive Director
Southern Cross Protection has been under Patrick’s stewardship since 2008 and since then, he has introduced significant workforce and cultural changes that lead to the business’ transformation. With a keen grasp of the human element of the business, Patrick has instituted continuous programs inspiring the entire organisation to work together towards one vision, that is to live and breathe the same values, and turn the company’s purpose into everyone’s passion.
Patrick recognises that Southern Cross Protection’s challenge is aligning the personal goals of people in the workforce with the organisation’s business goals, and setting career paths for security professionals. Under his direction, Southern Cross Protection is seizing opportunities for development and expansion, while breaking industry paradigms and developing the best workforce in the industry. This commitment is not only for commercial growth, but for his creed as well that everybody is entitled to a pleasant, secure, and safe environment.
Aside from his extensive knowledge in the area of security, operations, and management, Patrick is also backed by a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Masters in Marketing that complement the ongoing mission and vision of Southern Cross Protection.
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David Medhurst Managing Director
David has a career spanning 25 years operating within major supply chain and logistics organisations including Toll Group, Armaguard, and Scott’s Transport. He has established a national service network for on-call ATM services for NCR and Westpac Bank. David being truly client-centric, continuously strives to deliver multi-disciplined and innovative service solutions to customers. He focuses on excellence in service delivery, strategic planning, productivity initiatives and risk management. Supporting the strategy of continuous training of our teams, David leads a workforce of more than 600 people and ensures that Southern Cross Protection has the best qualified and trained team in the industry. It is through our people that the organisation will continue to lead in a very competitive market.
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Oliver Vrtkovski National Human Resources Manager
Oliver’s career spans over 17 years in generalist HR roles of which 13+ years have been in senior HR roles. He has had the privilege of working within the logistics divisions of Australia’s two biggest supermarket retailers Coles and Woolworths, along with Australia’s largest steel manufacturer, BlueScope, and Australia’s largest waste management provider, Cleanaway. Alongside his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Wollongong, he holds a Masters of Strategic Human Resources Management to complement his commercially minded approach to HR.
Over the years, Oliver has acquired strong HR leadership skills to support industrial environments as well as the ability to drive change through the implementation and delivery of initiatives to improve productivity, efficiency and engagement with the intention to create high performing teams and organisational culture.
Oliver’s drive to succeed is demonstrated through the successful delivery of increased levels of engagement and performance across several organisational groups, exemplified through the effective negotiation of complex Enterprise Agreements, seamless mobilisation of contracts/projects and through stringent change management processes leading to efficiencies in operational performance.