About Fovo Ventures
Independent expertise built on project controls, finance and practical delivery.
Fovo Ventures was established to help project organisations obtain clearer information, stronger control and more confident decisions.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Bernard Giles
Perth-based project controls professional with more than 25 years of experience.
Bernard has supported major capital projects and operational portfolios across Australia, Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom.
His core discipline is cost engineering and project controls, but his work has consistently extended into the reliability and governance of the systems behind the numbers—forecasting methods, finance interfaces, progress measurement, performance reporting, change control and team capability.
He has worked across owner, contractor and EPCM organisations, from early engineering through execution, operations support and project close-out.
Professional foundation
- Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accountancy
- Qualified Chartered Accountant
- Diploma in Project Management, University of Aberdeen
- Presented project controls systems and earned value methodologies at Chevron project controls conferences in Houston
- Experienced in multi-partner joint ventures and production-sharing environments
Working approach
Rigour without unnecessary complexity.
Understand how the work is actually delivered, make information usable for management and leave maintainable capability behind.