The practitioner CISOs call when they need it done, not just advised.

Twenty years of independent delivery — not twenty years at a firm where the first ten were shadowing someone else. Arpad Marton has operated as a practitioner-for-hire since the beginning: scoped, delivered, and accountable for the outcome from day one.

The work has spanned sectors few consultants navigate with genuine depth: healthcare information systems at Epworth, national research infrastructure at CSIRO, insurance program governance at IAG, and logistics technology at Toll. Each sector added a layer of regulatory nuance, stakeholder complexity, and technology constraint that informs every engagement PM247 takes on today.

The intersection Arpad occupies is rare: technical enough to understand the risk, commercially fluent enough to explain it to a board, and experienced enough to actually execute the fix. Most practitioners sit on one side of that intersection. PM247 sits at the middle of it.

The Master of Applied Finance is not decorative. When a CISO needs to make a cyber investment case to a CFO, or a program director needs to quantify the cost of a vendor underperforming, the ability to speak in dollar exposure — not just risk likelihood — is what gets the decision made. That is the differentiator no certification alone provides.