Evolve with us

By combining deep industry expertise with practical execution, Hydra empowers businesses to navigate complexity, modernise operations, and achieve sustainable growth.


Empowering Industry Through Strategic Consulting

Hydra Consulting — Strategy and delivery for the future of industry

Hydra Consulting delivers strategy, advisory, and project execution across advanced manufacturing, digital transformation, export growth, and startup acceleration. We help organisations plan, build, and scale — with expertise in operations, policy, innovation, AI, and growth.

We work across the full-stack of business covering production through to business development, marketing and sales.

Hydra Consulting, leaders in strategy in food, wine, manufacturing, digital, and AI.
Hydra Consulting working globally with advanced manufacturing firms.
Hydra Consulting helping businesses grow and develop their digital and AI capability.
Hydra Consulting helps companies build their growth capability, develop their growth projects, and provides tools to simplify market entry.

Industries served and sector expertise

We work with clients in food, beverage, wine, agribusiness, manufacturing, water, environment, and advanced tech. Our sector expertise spans production, export, innovation, and commercial strategy—supporting both established industry leaders and fast-moving startups.

Hydra Consulting working with a wide range of food and beverage businesses.
Hydra Consulting is a full-stack consultant in wine - from producing to selling.
Hydra consulting are leaders in policy and implementation projects in agriculture and water.
Hydra Consulting are leaders in advanced manufacturing projects.
Hydra Consulting have worked with hundreds of startups on growth projects, new market entry, and as coaches adn mentors in accelerators.
Hydra Consulting are leaders in building business capability with a focus on growth projects and market expansion.

Work with Hydra Consulting as you evolve to succeed in the emerging business environment.

Hydra Consulting was founded to help businesses tame the beast of modern enterprise to accelerate their growth and success. We since have broadened that ambition to challenge our customers to evolve with us as we increase our capability in and emphasis on leveraging modern tools to navigate a fast-evolving business environment.

Our story began in South Australia, where Ron van Buuren, a systems-focused engineer, and Dr. Darren Oemcke, a strategist who thrives in ambiguity, observed the same challenge repeating itself across industries. Great ideas were getting lost in execution. Smart people were overwhelmed by complexity. Projects stalled. Exports stumbled. Innovation hit walls.

So we built Hydra — a consultancy not just of advisors, but of builders, makers, and implementers. From the outset, Hydra’s work spanned the worlds of engineering, wine, agriculture, manufacturing, and policy. The common thread? Helping ambitious organisations find clarity in chaos and structure in uncertainty. Today, Hydra works at the intersection of:

Manufacturing and technology, helping businesses modernise, automate, and expand.

Wine and beverage export, leading national programs like Growing Wine Exports and WA Wines to the World.

Food and manufacturing innovation, supporting startups and business growth in everything from robotics to value chains.

Water and agricultural policy, where we’ve helped shape and deliver major government reform initiatives.

Our team is small but formidable — engineers, strategists, scientists, and marketers with global experience and local focus. We’ve delivered multimillion-dollar factory builds, policy reform programs, export market entries, and hands-on training that leaves lasting capability.

Hydra doesn’t promise certainty. It promises clarity, momentum, and results — the kind that stick long after the project ends.

Because in a world that won’t slow down, Hydra helps businesses evolve with confidence.