Our People

Christian Kwakkernaat

A highly experienced manager with a strong background working within competitive and high paced service level industries, Christian leads our Operations Team to delivery our service excellence to over 450 customers with SEQ.

Christian is our go to guy for ensuring we are delivering on our standards & promises and is continually meeting with our key customers to review and improve the partnerships that makes Cleanworks so different to any other cleaning company.

Allyson Chen

Allyson is the Finance Accountant here at Cleanworks and manages the day to day accounting & payroll functions. With a high level of attention to detail and her ability to look for improvements, Allyson is a critical member of the team.

With a Master of Professional Accounting and an MBA, complimented with over 20+ years of industry experience – our finances and administrative functions have never been in better hands.

Luke Gooding

Luke is responsible for helping new customers transition to Cleanworks and has proven experience in identifying areas of improvement in cleaning quality, whilst finding substantial cost savings.

With over 20 years of experience in commercial property and business development, Luke provides a fresh approach to ensuring we continue to grow and promoting our brand.

Didier Cotte

Didier is a cheerleader and advocate of Cleanworks for any potential candidates to join our Team. Didier has extensive recruitment experience in both blue and white-collar industries and does an amazing job in supporting the team with a ready comprehensible supply of strong cleaners.

Amanda Summers

Being so passionate about cleaning standards and hygiene, Amanda is a true champion in the industry with an amazing eye for detail and willingness to get things right every time.  Our customers are always praising Amanda’s style as she often turns around sites from competitors that found it too hard.  Amanda show’s great respect and compassion with the cleaners providing consistent feedback and development of her team.

Teresa Robinson

Teresa is an experienced people manager and possesses strong customer services capabilities and administrative skills. A true problem solver and prolific note taker, Teresa is a truly dependable Account Manager that loves when a plan comes together.

Brendan McGovern

With a wide breath of experience in the cleaning industry, including schools and medical facilities, Brendan adds a real passion to what he does and prides himself in training up the future cleaning stars of Cleanworks. Overseeing a number of our schools within Brisbane, Brendan is always keen to invest his knowledge to ensure we meet the promises to our customers

Alex Palmer

Alex is a great communicator and compassionate leader for our Toowoomba team. With many years in managing small teams of cleaners in schools and aged care facilities, Alex adds a lot of value to the team and ensure all our customers’ needs are meet.

Christine Young

Christine has been in the cleaning industry for many years and has an in-depth understanding of cleaning principles and how maintain a site so that it keeps looking and smelling fresh. Overseeing several schools on the northside of Brisbane, Christine excels at developing and training our cleaners and ensuring they have all the tools and understanding to do they jobs properly.

Melinda Kostoglou

Melinda is responsible for the payroll of the Cleanworks team using her background in various administration functions and strong knowledge of the Cleaning Services Award. Melinda always concerns herself with personally ensuring that everyone is paid on time – every time and adds a lot of personality to a process driven role.

Yolanda Li

Yolanda is a degree qualified assistant accountant with over 10 years of experience. With a high level of proficiency in various IT systems and her attention to detail, Yolanda adds to our strong team of administration professionals ensuring that all of our supply partners are paid on time.

Laura Clarke

Laura is responsible for ensuring Cleanworks Australia stay’s ahead of the curve in managing our internal management systems and compliance with the ISO standards and best practises

With over 20+ years of experience in large corporate entities, Laura adds a lot of value to how we maintain our records specialising in Safety, Auditing and Quality documentation

With Laura’s watchful eye, we continue to develop a culture of Continual Improvement and systems management.

Louise Proudlock

Louise is a dedicated and reliable member of our company.  Having worked as a cleaner, to consistently proving her way as a senior member of our Operations Team, Louise has personally delivered and overseen the implementation and care of some of Cleanworks’s largest accounts.   Having reached a 10 Year Service Award with Cleanworks, many of our customer’s have gotten to know and trust that when Louise is on the job, things just get done right!

David Doak

David has been in the cleaning industry since early 2000 has an in-depth understanding of cleaning principles and how maintain a site so that it keeps looking their best. Overseeing several commercial site throughout Brisbane, David  excels at developing and training our cleaners and ensuring they have all the tools and understanding to do they jobs properly.