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Business Turnaround & Performance
Assessing revenue opportunities, controlling expenses, optimising cash flow and building teams that perform. Rapid risk assessment and decisive action that generates cash, profit and growth.
Strategic Advisory & Investment · Brisbane
Navigating complexity.Delivering clarity.
Paul Torrisi works alongside boards and owners on the decisions that move the number — turnaround, capital, governance and the operating discipline that holds it together.
And where a business is worth backing rather than advising, Torrisi Co invests its own capital.
La forza della strategia — the strength of strategy
Paul Torrisi · Managing Director
Where others see complexity, we see the decision.
Paul Torrisi is a proven CEO and director with a track record of turning businesses around — generating cash, profit and growth where others see complexity. Decades across telecommunications, infrastructure, automotive, manufacturing and technology have built a habit of rapid risk assessment, decisive leadership and frameworks that deliver in both the short and long term.
That same judgement now sits on both sides of the table. Torrisi Co advises the businesses that need a steady hand, and takes positions in the startups and proven concepts worth backing — because sovereign capability needs Australian capital behind Australian businesses.
Scope
How we deliver results
Six advisory disciplines, and one thing we do with our own money.
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Commercial Transactions & Capital
Deep experience navigating complex commercial transactions, structuring deals and managing stakeholder relationships. A strong track record across capital strategy, investor relations and banking partnerships.
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Strategic Frameworks & Governance
KPI-driven strategic frameworks that touch every area of the business. Vision setting, staff incentivisation and board-level corporate governance aligned with measurable outcomes.
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Investment & Backing
Torrisi Co invests its own capital in startups and proven concepts across industries. Sometimes that is capital alone. More often it comes with a seat at the table and the operating experience to help you use it.
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Telecommunications & Infrastructure
Subject matter expertise in large-scale telecommunications infrastructure — from strategy and design through to project management and procurement. Decades of hands-on industry experience.
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AI Integration
Practical guidance on adopting AI tools and workflows to streamline operations, sharpen decision-making and unlock new efficiencies. Helping businesses get up to speed and integrate AI where it matters.
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Strategy Workshops & Facilitation
Facilitating strategy workshops that align leadership teams around a shared vision. Setting KPIs, identifying growth levers and building strategic plans your people actually buy into — run in the room, not delivered as a document.
Paul's Position
Written from the chair
Notes on strategy, capital and AI — written for the people who have to make the call.
Policy & Capital
Tax What You Want Less Of
Why Australia cannot tax its way to prosperity, why incentives matter, and why sovereign capability needs Australian capital backing Australian businesses.
Read AI LiteracyThe AI Language Every Leader Needs to Understand
LLMs, agentic AI and model selection — why AI literacy starts with knowing the right words.
Read Cash & AIIf Cash is King, AI Literacy is the Queen
Disciplined experimentation, AI literacy and cash flow oversight — what every business should be doing in the AI onset era.
ReadOur Team
Who you will be dealing with
Paul Torrisi
Managing Director
CEO, director and strategic advisor. Business turnaround, telecommunications infrastructure and investment.
Caitlin Torrisi
Director of Operations
Finance, administration and business services. Degree qualified.
Roberto Marconi
Executive Assistant & Analyst
Executive support to the directors. Research, analysis and stakeholder coordination.
Advisory
Start a conversation
Whether you are looking to turn a business around, sharpen your strategy, build a governance framework or work out what AI can actually do for your operations — we would welcome the conversation.
No obligation. A candid discussion about where you are and where you want to be.
Investment
Pitching for backing
We invest our own capital, across industries, in people we believe can execute. We are selective, and we read everything that arrives properly — which is why we ask you to do the work first.
- Send a deck. What the business does, who it is for, and why now.
- Send the numbers. Where revenue sits today and what the money is for.
- Make the ask clear. How much, on what terms, and what you want from us beyond the cheque.
We review every submission and will come back to you if there is a fit. Please don't chase it by phone — if it is right for us, you will hear from us.