Richard is the founding Director and Executive Chairman of the RTC Group.  From small beginnings learning his trade in carpentry working day and night on jobs while also studying at TAFE through sheer determination, hard work and excellent scores he was released early from his course. The rest, as they say, is history. 

Richard continued to apply his knowledge and acute business acumen together with his keen sense of valuing solid relationships with partners and other successful trade organisations. His business soon began to grow to achieve many national business and industry accolades.  As the organisation expanded, Richard sought the experience and advice of key professional advisors to help guide his company.  Richard will happily share with anyone his secret to success as being passionate and having a clear vision, the courage to challenge and do better, applying resourcefulness and having the persistence to deliver the hard work necessary to completely achieve all set goals and commercial outcomes.

As the Executive Chairman, Richard has built a highly successful and respected organisation by consistently meeting the requirements of clients, in fact, he strives to exceed those requirements and expectations and encourages everyone in the Group to follow his example to always “Strive for Excellence”.  Richard is also very passionate about the people that work for the organisation and the broader community in which we live.  He established ‘The Concept’, a not for profit sports development centre at Highfields in Newcastle that aims to support youth through school and club sporting initiatives.  This is also underpinned by ‘Foundation #1’ a charitable foundation he created with Australian Government Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status, which helps at-risk youth by offering hope, support and sponsorship, both within local, national and international communities.

Richard’s vision is to weave the RTC Group and its people in with the various communities by giving back, allowing both to drive and motivate each other and to build further on Foundation #1’s work by guiding and growing the next generation of leaders at RTC Group.

The RTC Group has now grown from being a local, multi award-winning Hunter Valley based company into a national leader with operations in South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales with plans to “Set the Standard” through further expansion both nationally and internationally.

Michael has been a director of the RTC group for almost 20 years, bringing an unmatched level of aspiration, ambition, and desire for success to the business. Michael is an award-winning Carpenter who possesses high levels of strategic planning and contract negotiation skills combined with an extensive knowledge of all areas of building and maintenance. With this experience, he has overseen the development and management of RTC’s most complex projects nationally, gaining recognition in the commercial construction arena, receiving numerous accolades. 

Michael has been integral in the successful management of RTC’s maintenance services contracts with both the Land & Housing Corporation NSW and the South Australian Housing Trust.

Michael has also played a key role in establishing a pathway for members of Indigenous communities to gain employment through work being undertaken by RTC on behalf of the SA Housing Authority.

As an Executive Director, Michael strives to continually improve, progress and expand RTC’s presence across Australia by exceeding client’s expectations and aligning actions with RTC’s core values. This dedication has seen RTC Group grow extensively to include not only multi-trade maintenance services but property assessment surveys, maintenance scoping, local community trades integration, and 3D property scanning. RTC’s client base has been expanded vastly to include social and community housing, Councils, and School renovation programs. Michael’s key focus is on company growth.

Steve has close to 30 years of combined experience in executive and senior management roles throughout Australia within the public and private criminal justice systems, Local and State Government environments. With this experience comes an extensive background in corporate business planning, performance management and planning, leadership development, governance, Organisational structure management and policy formation. 

Throughout his career, he has been engaged in asset management, including major prisons infrastructure in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Along with his wide range of knowledge and experience in regulatory and legislative reform, technology-based systems, business development, project, financial and human resources management.

As the Chief Executive Officer, he has a strong background in strategic infrastructure reform. Steve is highly regarded for his ability to achieve desired outcomes within budgetary and timeline benchmarks, including improving Organisational performance both economically and from an employee development perspective. 

Steve is driven to achieve results that promote equity, quality and pursuing an environment contributing to continuous improvement and accountability across the RTC Group.