About Us : Our vision, values, people and work

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About

We are an organisation devoted to the realisation of exceptional built spaces. We collaborate with clients in shared pursuit of the remarkable.

We believe in possibility. In the opportunities that lie off the most obvious path, and the potential we can unlock when people are deeply connected, committed and creative. Whether operating as advisors or project partners, we exist to realise the true potential of your project’s ambition.

Combining global experience with diverse perspectives, we specialise in projects that require something more than the standard delivery.

Committed and connected, we provide a higher, more personal level of service than most. We work closely with you, in tune with your priorities, dreams and ambitions to represent your project wholeheartedly.

Established in 2023, Cerulean has in a short span of time delivered significant strategy and delivery projects nationally in Australia.
Clients include occupiers and owners, government and the private sector, all looking for creative solutions drawn from deep technical and commercial experience, gained from delivering landmark projects.

Cerulean was founded by Anna Verghese, who brings 20+ years of global and proven expertise in the commercial, hospitality, healthcare, retail, residential, hi-tech and mixed-use sectors. Uniquely she has been a client, a consultant and also a contractor, the outcome of which is the strong belief in fairness and achieving the right outcomes for projects.

Projects are led by Anna through the entire project life cycle, with the ability to bring in key specialist team players, ensuring seamless delivery and response to scale and scope.

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Our Vision & Values

At Cerulean we believe in possibility. In the opportunities that lie off the most obvious path, and the potential we can unlock when people are deeply connected, committed and creative.

We have a vision and ambition that’s bigger than most. That goes beyond delivering a functional service, and pursues something more meaningful. More impactful. More remarkable. We hold our clients’ hopes, dreams and ambitions. And from our higher vantage point, we see and deliver them in high resolution.

Our Values

Connected and Considered

Our success is rooted in the connections we make, and the way we engage. We have a sophisticated understanding of people and projects. We take a personal approach: listening, connecting, and earning total trust. Aligned with and representing our clients’ ambitions, we operate professionally, without ego to quietly see, navigate, challenge and enable. And then we execute with agility and precision to resolve.

Crystal Clarity

Our deep experience and diverse perspectives give us a higher vantage point, from which we see everything more clearly. With clarity we map the best path forward, pre-empt what others can’t, and tease out greater possibilities.

Creative Delivery

Minds in and hands-on, we’re both big picture leaders and everyday players. We know that success lies in the people as well as the project, so we support and champion people to deliver their best work. We tackle challenges from a place of creativity, combining cross-category experience with out of the box thinking to unlock better and more. We take on a project all in: embedded, engaged and working with total commitment until the job is done.

Connected and Considered

Our success is rooted in the connections we make, and the way we engage. We have a sophisticated understanding of people and projects. We take a personal approach: listening, connecting, and earning total trust. Aligned with and representing our clients’ ambitions, we operate professionally, without ego to quietly see, navigate, challenge and enable. And then we execute with agility and precision to resolve.

Crystal Clarity

Our deep experience and diverse perspectives give us a higher vantage point, from which we see everything more clearly. With clarity we map the best path forward, pre-empt what others can’t, and tease out greater possibilities.

Creative Delivery

Minds in and hands-on, we’re both big picture leaders and everyday players. We know that success lies in the people as well as the project, so we support and champion people to deliver their best work. We tackle challenges from a place of creativity, combining cross-category experience with out of the box thinking to unlock better and more. We take on a project all in: embedded, engaged and working with total commitment until the job is done.

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Our People & Services

Anna Verghese

Anna is the founding director of Cerulean, a client-side consulting firm for built spaces. The breadth of her experience includes workplace to mixed use master-planned communities, hotels to hi-tech industrial projects, in Australia and globally, in particular in the Asia Pacific region. Her greatest strength is delivering creative tangible solutions to clients that draw from this diversity of experience. Some recent transformative experiences for clients include functional briefs, procurement strategy, portfolio planning and sometimes just a refreshing look at transaction negotiations and reporting.

In 2018 Anna joined a global consulting firm, rising to Director leading a team of professionals managing their largest commercial client in Australia. Cerulean was founded with the vision of a core belief, to provide a service that is trusted implicitly to provide outcomes.

Patrick Marsden

Our success is rooted in the connections we make, and the way we engage. We have a sophisticated understanding of people and projects. We take a personal approach: listening, connecting, and earning total trust. Aligned with and representing our clients’ ambitions, we operate professionally, without ego to quietly see, navigate, challenge and enable. And then we execute with agility and precision to resolve.

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Patrick Marsden

Patrick joined Cerulean in 2024 as Associate Director, having previously worked in both client-side consulting and architecture for two global industry sector leaders in the built environment. His range of experience includes workplace, commercial, mixed use, residential and retail across Australia. Patrick believes the key to delivering successful outcomes is understanding the clients' unique needs then navigate appropriate pathways to deliver those while drawing on knowledge and experience to drive positive results. Most recently Patrick has helped clients, both locally and globally, deliver projects of exceptional standards advising through initial strategy and functional briefs, programme and procurement through to delivery and post occupancy transitions. He truly believes any project can achieve success if delivered on a foundation of respect, passion and work ethic.

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