About Us
Carrie Watt
Director
Onion was founded in July 2009 by Managing Director Carrie Watt. With almost 30 years’ experience in USA, Canada, Sth America, India and Australia.
Carrie has held senior market research positions in General Motors USA and Holden Australia. Carrie’s passion for qualitative and quantitative market research is driven by a desire to see companies offer superior and authentic services and products to customers so that customers are delighted and remain loyal. Since then Carrie has continued to provide valuable market research insights to the automotive industry, food and Not For Profit sectors.
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Carrie’s difference is her client service and her objectivity in designing, analyzing and reporting on research/survey projects. Carrie’s objectivity and detailed analysis ensures her advice is accurate and relevant to the business.
Darren Watt
Director
Darren has almost 30 years of engineering and leadership experience across many sectors including oil & gas, mining, infrastructure and professional services and has been recognised twice as one of the Top 100 Influential Engineers in Australia.
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Darren has over 15 years’ experience leading HR/People functions overseeing diverse teams and workforces of up to 9000 people. Darren has been the CEO of one of the largest engineering consultancies in Australia with annual revenues more than $200M per year and he was part of the global executive team for one of the world’s largest environmental consultancies with annual revenues more than $1.5B for over 7 years.
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Darren’s approach to business is people centric and during his time leading HR teams and as CEO, has achieved National Best Employer Awards (Hewitt) in Australia from 2003 to 2008 and over 21 national and state awards for Client Service (Beaton/AFR) from 2005 to 2012.