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TMX said the establishment of its new Centre of Excellence is aimed at standardising and scaling its proven supply chain and property tech solutions across the firm’s growing global footprint, including expansion in Europe and United States.
“This is fundamental to TMX’s next phase of growth,” said CEO Travis Erridge, who co-founded what was to become the now 200 person-strong firm in 2009. “As we take on more clients across more markets, we need every team, in every region, drawing on the same depth of expertise rather than reinventing it market by market.”
The Centre of Excellence is led by Nick De Klerk, who has been with the consulting firm for the past six years, most recently out of Boston to help build up the firm’s North American supply chain business. He recently returned to Sydney to lead the new global centre as managing director.
“My ambition is to strengthen TMX globally, which means finding a way to capture our people’s knowledge and deploy it consistently across every market we operate in,” De Klerk said of his new role.
Clients come to TMX for the surety and subject matter expertise our people bring, and we need to optimise our business to champion that on an increasingly bigger scale.
TMX Edge
The establishment of the Centre of Excellence follows closely on the launch of TMX’s new integrated end-to-end data centre consultancy TMX Edge, which brings together energy, property, and construction project management expertise within the one practice. The firm said the dedicated spin-out was born from its recent work on hyperscale projects, as well as growing regional demand.
“TMX Edge is everything TMX has built over 16 years, applied to one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world,” Erridge said.
We started as an industrial property and project management business, evolved into supply chain consulting, and built that into a structured, global business, and now we’re bringing all of that to data centres in a simple industry-based solution.
The new advisory is led by Angus Perry, who joined TMX in 2019 after previously working in the Australian and Hong Kong construction sector with Laing O’Rourke, Gammon, and Probuild. Christine Corbett, the former CEO of AGL, has also been recruited to the new consultancy’s strategic advisory board, having also previously served as chief customer officer at Australia Post.
“Working closely in this space for more than three years has shown us that the market is incredibly well served by engineers, property specialists and project managers – but they’re operating as separate disciplines,” Perry said.
What’s been missing is someone who connects all of that into one integrated process, from site selection and energy through to construction and execution.
The firm also pointed to the boom in data centre construction in the Asia Pacific, particularly in Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia and driven by the demand generated by AI, citing one estimate that investment levels would reach $244 billion across the region by the end of the decade. Despite the available capital however, the firm says progress has been slowed to date by disjointed delivery.
This article was originally published Consultancy Australia on 7 September 2026.