Alfonso is one of Australia’s leading technology, sourcing and commercial lawyers, with deep procurement and commercial consulting experience.
Prior to joining HWL Ebsworth Alfonso worked for Herbert Smith Freehills and Minter Ellison, held senior commercial and procurement roles at two ASX100 companies, and ran his own boutique legal and commercial consulting practice.
Alfonso has worked with clients in the insurance, media, energy, mining, technology, manufacturing and financial services sectors. He has experience in advising across the full life cycle of business transformation, technology and strategic sourcing projects.
Expertise
Experience
- Major Australian Insurer Advising on its digital transformation programme, involving the replacement of a number of critical legacy systems with cloud products and multi-year implementation and systems integration projects.
- Major Australian retail group Advisingon its first large scale shared service outsourcing and offshoring.
- Major Australian Bank Providing advice on a technology supply agreement for the development and launch of a new health product.
- WA Government agency Advising on a complex multi-vendor IT procurement programme.
- GFG Alliance Providing advice on its first major BPO project, which was constructed as a multi-service tower and multi-jurisdictional arrangement.
- Fairfax Media Assisting with its portfolio of outsourcing and offshoring arrangements as part of the Fairfax of the Future program.
- Leading affordable housing providers Advising on the strategic procurement of IT systems and property maintenance services.
- BHP Billiton Advising BHP with some of its key global procurement activities relating to IT, telecommunications and professional services, including its relationships with SAP and IBM.