The Team
Ron is an experienced business and specialist taxation advisor focusing on the small to medium business market and private clients. Ron has a passion for assisting his clients to grow and to maximise their business and personal wealth.
Ron has been a Certified Practising Accountant for 20+ years and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Diploma of Management. Ron has also been awarded a fellowship with CPA Australia. Ron enjoys working through complex taxation issues and providing his clients with commercial and practical financial management and taxation solutions.
Ron takes a holistic approach to his clients’ affairs, assisting with business growth, succession planning, superannuation, retirement and estate planning.
Ron has a wide range of experience but with particular interest in global trade, training organisations, building and construction and the health industries. Ron also has a passion for assisting young people start their own businesses and develop and implement sound business plans to help achieve their business and financial goals.
Ron also enjoys footy, running, riding, surfing, swimming, basketball, cricket, tennis, volleyball, table tennis, old cars, old motorbikes, shooting, camping, fishing, boxing and boating.
Camilo Munoz Lopez joined the Gibson and Associates team at the beginning of 2020. He was born in Colombia and graduated from Cesmag University with a Bachelor of Business Administration.
Camilo moved to Australia in 2014 to study English with the view of securing a good job when he returned to Colombia. After becoming fluent in English, Camilo completed a Master of Professional Accounting (Advanced). During this time, he fell in love with Australia and the Australian people and decided to stay.
He started in the accounting industry as a bookkeeper whilst undertaking his masters’ studies but after only six months was recognised as being ready for much greater things and moved into business advisory and taxation.
Camilo likes to analyse businesses and think outside the box to help his clients develop business strategies and be successful. Camilo is an associate of CPA Australia and currently working towards his Certified Practising Accounting (CPA) accreditation.
As well as speaking English and his native Spanish, Camilo can also speak Japanese.
In his free time, you will find Camilo taking daytrips to the mountains, travelling to new places in Australia, playing soccer and table tennis and catching up with friends.
Susie is an outstanding Senior accountant in Gibson and Associates. She brings a unique blend of accounting and business banking experience.
Susie graduated from Griffith with a Bachelor in Arts (Japanese) and a Bachelor of International Finance. She began her career in Business Banking at the National Australia Bank and for over ten years gave her experience and professional analytical skills to efficiently assess and provide professional business advice across retail, private and business banking. She then moved into a part-time finance role as she became the mother of three boys, which keeps her very busy. During this transition, an opportunity arose to work in accounting.
Passionate for numbers and enjoying working with clients to assist in achieving their goals, the public practice has become her new passion, where she has developed exceptional skills over the last ten years.
Susie can also speak Japanese. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and taking them to different social activities around the Gold Coast. Weekends are filled with football, cricket, and nippers.
After two children, a decade as Export Manager in the surfing industry and a move to the Gold Coast, Kirsty decided it was time for a career change. This change allowed her to spend more time with her children and pursue a career that involved some of the things she loves, organising, people and numbers.
Kirsty began working at Gibson and Associates in 2014 as a bookkeeper. With a great deal of encouragement and hard work, Kirsty went on to complete a Master of Professional Accounting.
Kirsty is an integral part of the Gibson and Associates team, and her smile is often the first thing you see when you walk into our office. Kirsty is a perfectionist and has an eye for details and excels at helping our clients get themselves organised.
Kirsty role also encompasses office manager responsibilities along with assisting clients with all aspects of their accounting needs.
Kirsty is also our resident Xero software expert and gets much enjoyment from delivering our initial set up, training and support package. Kirsty is also a qualified Justice of the Peace.
