Lyndon Galvin is a successful business strategist, who founded Isca Group to pursue equity and partnership opportunities where he can add obvious value.
As a qualified chartered accountant with extensive experience in commercial accounting and business consulting, he uses his expertise combined with a naturally creative and strategic mindset to help businesses grow and develop.
Throughout his career Lyndon has diversified his business interests by participating in equity positions in a variety of now successful companies. He is interested to align himself with emerging businesses — particularly those where he can advance strategy, reporting, business process, adoption of technologies and help them navigate the complexities of growth.
Today Lyndon holds equity and non-executive advisory positions in a number of successful businesses in the thoroughbred racing, energy, digital, and communication industries.
Lindsay Park Racing Pty Ltd Advisory Board Member 2015-Present
Lindsay Park is Australia’s most respected thoroughbred training establishment and is owned and operated by Australia’s leading horse racing family, the Hayes.
Lyndon is on the advisory board for Lindsay Park Racing and is responsible for the delivery of outstanding accounting and reporting systems, and helping to shape the business’s future strategic direction.
Hayes Berry Tehan Pty Ltd Advisory Board Chair 2012-Present
HBT Agency is a Melbourne based strategic creative advertising and digital agency. HBT integrates creativity with digital expertise and strategy to drive effective communication, and has been responsible for the high-profile advertising campaigns of some of Australia’s most recognised brands in the last 20 years.
In his role as chair of the advisory board, Lyndon helps influence the company’s strategic direction, which included the creation of a highly successful digital division.
That Communications Company Pty Ltd Advisory Board Chair 2015-Present
That Communications Company is a strategic communications consultancy that has quickly established itself as an exceptional partner for organisations requiring media relations, corporate and brand positioning, stakeholder engagement and issues and reputation management.
In his role as chair of the advisory board, Lyndon assists the business to develop growth and implementation strategy, ensuring also that the required support systems and governance processes are in place.
Ozwide Group Pty Ltd
Shareholder
2010 – Present
Ozwide is a project management and energy solutions consultancy firm, with extensive experience working on high profile, large-scale projects.
In his former role as the chair of the advisory board, Lyndon oversaw the group’s strategy, finance and governance.
The Green Guys Group Pty Ltd
Advisory Board Member
2015-2017
TGGG is one of Australia’s largest energy efficiency solution providers, with a speciality in large scale lighting upgrades and a fully vertically integrated business model.
Lyndon was responsible for ensuring the accounting and reporting framework catered for the business’s complex structures, demands and rapid growth.
Isca Consulting Pty Ltd
Founder
2006-2016
Lyndon founded Isca Consulting with the objective to develop best practice accounting and reporting systems for thoroughbred businesses, and was a key player in sophisticating the way the industry accounts and reports.
Prior to selling the business to his business partner in 2015, Lyndon had the privilege of working with some of the industry’s leading operations, including the Hayes, Cummings, Freedman, Weir, Baker and Sangster family organisations.
Accounting Technology Companies
Early Stage Equity Investor
Lyndon was an early believer and investor in some of today’s most successful cloud based accounting software solutions including Xero and Receipt Bank. His accounting experience has provided him with great insight into identifying possible future trends and he remains actively involved in this emerging space.
#1 testimonial
Managing Partner – Stannards Advisory Board Chair – Lindsay Park Racing
Lyndon brings an exceptional commercial skillset with an unparalleled understanding of the complexities of the thoroughbred industry. This unique combination provides Lindsay Park the ability to stay ahead of the pack with respect to best practice accounting and reporting processes.
As part of the pivotal role he plays on the advisory board, he has overseen the implementation of major initiatives such as the development of a dynamic reporting framework, a bloodstock reporting system and various process efficiency improvements that have allowed the Lindsay Park business to successfully scale.
#2 testimonial
Managing Director – That Communications Company
It is due to Lyndon’s involvement with That Comms Co. that the business finds itself in the exciting growth phase and happy place that it is in today.
Lyndon has been the most brilliant ally to myself and my team in navigating the complexities of running a growing SME. His energy, great wisdom and experience, have meant that as an agency we constantly consider the longer term impacts of significant business decisions and investments, and seize upon good growth opportunities.
The strategic mindset that he champions at That Comms Co. will continue to underpin our success now and into the future.
He is a delight to work with and I could not recommend his expertise more highly.
#3 testimonial
Managing Director – Hayes Berry Tehan
The advertising/communications landscape has changed dramatically over the last ten years. Against this backdrop, Lyndon has been invaluable to the success of HBT, in particular a recent surge of growth we’ve experienced.
Lyndon has chaired our Advisory Board since 2007, and in that role has has identified shifts in our industry, and has helped to shape and steer our responses.
His strategies have seen us grow a digital division in our business that now delivers a very significant proportion of our income. Lyndon has ideas for our business constantly. He’s helped us to forge very beneficial strategic relationships with complementary businesses and has connected us to investors who have helped us to create even more growth. Lyndon continues to be a hugely important contributor to our team.
