Peter Barta

CEO and Managing Partner at Everest Group Australasia

Peter Barta is CEO and Managing Partner at Everest Group Australasia. For 20 years, his extensive commercial expertise has served the strategic interests of world-leading organizations in over a dozen countries – across North America, Australia / New Zealand, South East Asia, and Southern Africa – in sectors as diverse as financial services, resources, government, manufacturing and distribution, energy, transportation and telecommunications.

Peter is adept at assessing the risks and benefits of business strategies and trade-off based decision-making. By leveraging his deep understanding of techniques to optimize the financial and governance structures of complex multi-year contracts, he has become known for his ability to arrange a deal to better align interests and maximize value for all the parties.

Peter has led an extensive list of major projects, including developing transition, multi-vendor governance, and exit negotiation strategies for an Australian State Government’s whole-of-government IT outsourcing renewals.  For a Fortune 100 international bank, he conducted a Health Check of their joint venture with a global outsourcer, and advised the parties on the deals’ remediation.

Prior to joining Everest Group Peter was a successful international executive with EDS, advancing steadily through the Finance organization to become Chief Financial Officer at EDS Australia. He also served as Director of Sales in Australia. Earlier he established the corporation’s new business pricing capability for the Africa region. He then led the same function for Australia and later for the entire Asia Pacific region, having established, and successfully led this as a shared service supporting EDS’ business in 12 countries.

Previously in his career, Peter was General Manager of Finance at Consolidated Mining Corporation in South Africa. He served as an officer in the South African Defense Force and worked as a public accountant and auditor.

Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Australia and in South Africa, Peter has an Honors degree in Accounting Sciences from the University of South Africa and has completed the Senior Executive Program at London Business School.