Sue Cato has worked on business-critical issues and corporate M&A activity for Australian and international corporations and entities for almost four decades. With an early career as a political staffer and having co-founded and then sold a corporate affairs company to multi-national interests, Cato established Cato Counsel in 2003 as a corporate communications company providing high-level strategic transaction support and public and corporate affairs advice. Cato is recognised as one of Australia’s leading special situations management experts, having managed some of the largest issues confronting corporate Australia and beyond. She is on the boards of the National Gallery of Australia Foundation and the Garvan Medical Research Foundation. Cato is an advisory board member of Sydney Contemporary and is Deputy Chairman of the creative think tank, A New Approach. She is a regular commentator on business issues for the national media.