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APPLIED FINANCE CENTRE

Faculty

The listing below comprises both our full-time and adjunct faculty. Each of our teaching staff has advanced academic qualifications as well as many years senior practical experience in the finance industry. The unit/s taught by each member of the faculty are in brackets under their name.

Click here for a list of our Faculty's research interests. You can also view a list of books and journal articles authored by the members of our faculty in our publications page.

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DON ADAMS BSc (Hons) New Eng, MBA Mass, PhD Monash

Associate Professor (Corporate Finance)

Don Adams has over twenty years’ experience working in senior finance positions in corporations and banking in New York and Sydney. His particular interest is corporate financial policy. Don has industry experience in many areas of finance; including corporate financial planning, financial policy formulation, corporate acquisitions, corporate treasury, project evaluation and corporate funding and risk management. He also has many years of academic experience, both in Australia and the USA. Don has published academic papers, and written many articles in industry journals. He also has been a member of a number of government and industry advisory boards, such as the NSW Government’s Treasury Functions Advisory Committee, the ASIC Training Advisory Committee and AFMA’s Accreditation Advisory Board.


FRANK ASHE BA Macq, PhD UNSW

Associate Professor (Risk and Portfolio Construction, Financial Instruments)

Frank Ashe has worked in Australia and Canada for insurance companies, investment management firms, and in software development and consultancy. His 28 years of practical experience has been predominantly in the measurement and management of financial risk, with an emphasis on asset liability management, and developing risk measurement and management tools for novel situations; he works now as a consultant and company director. He is a regular presenter at industry seminars and colloquia, and is currently President of the Q-Group Australia. Frank has research interests in the risk management, corporate governance, robustness of investment portfolio construction techniques, and the statistical underpinnings of Applied Finance.


DAVID BELL BMaths Newcastle (NSW), MAppFin Macq

Visiting Fellow (Hedge Funds)

David Bell runs his own boutique consulting / advisory business, St Davids Rd Advisory.  David consults primarily to wholesale investors, asset managers and corporates across a range of different areas including hedge funds, portfolio and risk management, strategy and responsible investment practices.  Prior to this David worked at Colonial First State for 12 years, the last six of which he ran the Fund of Hedge Funds business.  David has previously worked in risk management, fixed interest portfolio management and corporate finance roles across the banking and funds management industry.


STEVE BISHOP BEc Mon, MCom (Hons) PhD UNSW, FCPA

Visiting Fellow (Corporate Finance)

Steve Bishop’s most recent experience has been in management consulting, where over the last 20 years he has worked with Mainsheet Corporate, LEK Consulting, Marakon Associates, and Andersen Consulting. He is currently a Director and co-founder of Value Adviser Associates Pty Ltd, a corporate advisory firm with a focus on business valuations. His consulting assignments cover most industries including regulatory rate based work. The primary skill focus has been valuation related along with strategy development and implementation. Prior to Management Consulting, Steve spent 15 years an academic specialising in Finance.


PAUL BRUNKER BA (Hons) Oxf, MSc Lond

Visiting Fellow (Corporate Finance)

Paul Brunker has over 18 years experience in the securities industry in both analytical and management roles. He is currently the Australian Equity Strategist for JPMorgan, and previously was Head of Australian Equity Research for the same firm. Prior to relocating to Australia in 2001, Paul was Senior European Strategist for Robert Fleming in London and subsequently Head of European Research. Before joining Fleming, he was an Investment Strategist for the asset management division of Standard Chartered Bank.


RICHARD CALDWELL BEc, LLB Syd, Grad Dip ASIA

Visiting Fellow (Equity Capital Markets)

Richard Caldwell is currently Head of Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets at Tricom in Sydney. Tricom provides a broad range of financial and investment banking services. Richard has an established record in listing and providing ongoing corporate advice to many successful Australian emerging growth companies, particularly in the telecommunications, technology and biotechnology sectors. In addition, he has a strong transaction history in the oil and gas, resources and infrastructure sectors. Before joining Tricom, Richard spent seven years at Burdett Buckeridge Young where he was Head of Equity Capital Markets. Richard has also held senior management positions at Citibank, Sydney and J. P. Morgan, London. There he was responsible for debt origination, trading and risk management.


TONY CARLTON BComm MComm UNSW

Visiting Fellow (Project Analysis and Evaluation, Corporate Finance)

Tony Carlton has over 25 years experience in the manufacturing, resource and agricultural industries. He has held senior positions in CSR including Treasurer, and General Manager Finance and Strategy, and was a member of the senior executive team. Tony has had extensive experience in all aspects of corporate finance and strategy, including project evaluation, financial strategy and policy, debt management, financial risk management, strategic portfolio analysis and the development and execution of growth strategies. He has managed a number of large acquisitions and divestments both in Australia and overseas, and a number of large scale balance sheet restructurings. He also led the introduction of Value Based Management within CSR. Tony is currently undertaking a PhD at the MAFC.


STÉPHANE CHATONSKY BA ESSEC Paris, MBA Penn (Wharton), FAICD

Visiting Fellow (Private Equity Investment)

Stéphane Chatonsky started his career as an investment banker in Europe working on IPOs and privatisations for Lazard Freres & Co. Upon graduating from the Wharton School with an MBA majoring in Finance, he joined McKinsey & Co and advised corporates in the telecommunications, financial services and media sectors on a broad range of strategic and operational issues, focusing on growth strategies across the Asia-Pacific region. He subsequently joined the venture capital team of Macquarie Bank where he advised, invested in and managed early stage companies. Stéphane then joined Telecom New Zealand working on the corporate strategy for the Group, M&A and Investments. Stéphane is now an independent consultant – assisting private equity, venture capital funds, family offices and their portfolio companies on a broad range of issues from due diligence to transaction management, business planning and implementation, and performance improvement. Stéphane is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has been a mentor to senior executives of the not-for-profit sector with Social Ventures Australia and is a Director of the Pathways Foundation.


STEVE CHRISTIE BCom LLB (Hons) ANU, LLM Syd, MAppFin PhD Macq.

Associate Professor (Equity Funds Management,Private Wealth Management, Investments)

Steve has many years experience in finance and investments, including wealth management and private client services. He was Head of Private Wealth Management at Ord Minnett for a number of years, where he continues to consult and act as Chairman of the Ord Minnett Investment Committee. Prior to that he was Executive Director, Goldman Sachs JB Were Asset Management, Institutional Business. Steve also held positions at GSJBW Private Wealth Management as Senior Portfolio Manager, Asset Allocation Strategist and Head of Asset Allocation. Before joining GSJBW, Steve was a Director of Ord Minnett Limited, where he had previously acted as Corporate Counsel, General Manager of Leveraged Equities and Head of Private Asset Management. Steve is admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of NSW and the ACT and of the High Court of Australia.


ANNE COOPER BEc (Hons) Adel, PhD Syd, Dip FP

Deputy Director & Fellow (Investments)

Anne Cooper joined the Faculty with fifteen years of banking experience, specialising in balance sheet management issues.  Anne held executive positions in the Institutional and Funds Management/Insurance arms of a major Australian Bank and her industry experience lead to the introduction of Balance Sheet Management as an elective topic in the Centre’s Master of Applied Finance Program.  Anne is currently a member of AFMA’s Advisory Board.


DAN DAUGAARD BEc MEc Macq, CFA

Fellow (Investments, Applied Portfolio Management)

Dan Daugaard was previously an Associate Director with a large Australian fund manager and has extensive experience in managing portfolios and developing new investment products. Dan has a reputation for devising entertaining and engaging methods to explain complex finance principles. He has also consulted to a wide range of enterprises on the use of derivative instruments and the application of investment concepts. Dan’s research interests include stock selection techniques for equity and fixed interest markets, optimal portfolio construction, screened investments, dynamics strategies and asset/liability management.


PHIL DOLAN BA Macq, MBA UNSW, PhD Stanford, SFFin, MAICD

Applied Finance Centre Professor and Director

Prior to his appointment as the Centre’s Director, Phil Dolan spent thirteen years in the Funds Management Group of Macquarie Bank. While at Macquarie Funds Management, Phil was primarily involved in investment research and development. At various times he also headed the Product Management area, undertook asset allocation advisory work for a number of major institutional investors and managed the Funds Management Group’s relations with the principal asset consulting and investment manager research firms.


SUSAN EDWARDS BA LLB Syd, LLB (Hons) Lond, MAppLing Macq.

Fellow (Legal Risk in Finance)

Susan Edwards has a wide experience in many areas of the law. She has worked as in-house counsel for Rio Tinto and has been a partner with Freehills, one of Australia’s largest law firms. She has been involved in negotiating major commercial and financial transactions in her roles as corporate lawyer and commercial partner and is also an accredited mediator. She is currently researching in the area of the impact of language, in its broadest sense, on the teaching of law and finance, and how language impacts on communication in financial negotiations


PAUL FERRIS BSc B Comm Melb

Visiting Fellow (Financial Instruments)

Paul Ferris has had a twenty-five year career in banking, government and consulting. He has had senior roles at major Australian and International Banks in both trading and sales of derivatives and fixed interest, market risk management and risk policy development, asset and liability management, and systems and quantitative applications. He has been a member of ALCO and risk committees at major banks. His principal interests lie in the practical application of financial concepts and quantitative methods.


ALISON GERRY BMS Waikato, MAppFin Macq

Visiting Fellow (Corporate Treasury Management)

Alison Gerry has over 20 years experience working in financial markets for both corporates and for financial institutions. From 1999 to 2005, Alison was Group Treasurer for Lion Nathan, based in Sydney. Prior to that, Alison was with Lehman Brothers Asia based in Hong Kong. She has extensive sales, trading and risk management experience. Alison is on the board of Kiwibank in New Zealand.


JEFFREY HALL BSc Kans, MComm UNSW, ACA, AICPA

Visiting Fellow (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Jeff Hall is the managing director of boutique corporate advisory group Sumner Hall Associates, a firm specializing in all aspects of M&A work. Prior to establishing Sumner Hall Associates in 2002, Jeff was a director and substantial shareholder of Grant Samuel and had held those positions since 1988.While at Grant Samuel, Jeff was involved in all aspects of M&A work including advising on takeovers, mergers and schemes of arrangement, negotiating various M&A transactions, advising on capital raising and initial public offerings and undertaking complex valuation assignments in relation to M&A transactions. This work continues at Sumner Hall Associates with assignments over the past three years including mining companies Rio Tinto, Felix Resources, White Mining and MPI Mines; infrastructure company GasNet; media companies News Corporation and Publishing & Broadcasting Limited, retailer Coles Myer and a variety of other companies.


JAMES HAY BSc Mon, MBA Cornell, B Litt (Hons) Melbourne

Visiting Fellow (Resources Industry Investment Analysis)

James Hay has worked in the resources industry for over 20 years. He began his career with WMC Ltd, working in the corporate treasury department and then as a financial analyst in the gold, nickel and energy business units. James is currently an independent consultant to the mineral and energy industries. His engagements have involved modelling and analysis of fiscal regimes, gas sales contracts, business planning systems, equity divestments and project evaluations. His clients have included companies such as Shell, Placer Dome, Minara Resources, Xstrata, and Exxon Mobil. Over the past eight years, James has also established a training business that provides in house financial education to resource companies throughout Asia.


JOHN JARRATT BA (Hons) Otago, McSc PhD Warwick

Adjunct Professor (Credit Portfolio Management)

John Jarratt is Head of Enterprise Risk Analytics at Westpac Banking Corporation in Sydney, where he has overall responsibility for credit portfolio modelling and other models of an enterprise nature. John has held this role for 8 years but has been with the Westpac Group for 20 years. During this time, he has managed the derivatives activity on the Australian Financial Markets side of the business; spent time in London as Chief Manager, Risk Management; been responsible for the funding and capital management of the Bank as Deputy Treasurer; and been an Investment Director in Westpac Financial Services. Before joining the finance industry, John was an academic pure mathematician.


PETER JOLLY BAgrSc Lincoln, MSc Economics London

Visiting Fellow (Economics of Financial Markets)

Peter is currently Head of Research and Managing Director for nabCapital in Sydney. Peter has been in this role for the past decade, growing the team in this time to now have members in Australia, London and NZ with research disciplines covering macroeconomics, credit research and financial market strategists. Prior to this role, Peter was Head of Market Economics at the Bank of New Zealand and prior to that worked as a macroeconomic forecaster and researcher with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Peter’s own research work is focussed on macroeconomics, the financial and banking system, and investment strategies for fixed interest markets.


STEVE LAMBERT BComm UNSW, MAppFin Macq, SF Fin, GAICD, FFTP

Visiting Fellow (Debt Capital Markets)

Steve Lambert has over 25 years experience in various capital market and derivatives roles in the financial markets. Steve has spent much of his career in Asia having worked extensively based in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. Currently Steve is the Global Head of Distribution at nabCapital, previous roles have covered both regional and global capital market and derivative roles, as well as general management of dealing rooms. Steve is active in various industry forums and associations.


LARRY LEABEATER BEcon (Hons) Syd

Visiting Fellow (Balance Sheet Management)

Larry Leabeater has worked in the finance industry for over 20 years, much of which has been directly in the balance sheet management area. Larry set up the BSM function at St. George Bank, including the interest rate risk measurement and management, funds transfer pricing, liquidity policies and economic capital allocation. Larry has also worked at the Commonwealth Bank, helping to implement new international reporting standards, and at Westpac, where he led the risk reporting and transfer pricing team.


BERND P. LUEDECKE BSc Mon, BA (Hons) Macq, MS PhD Wisconsin

Associate Professor (Financial Risk Management, Swap Book Management)

Bernd Luedecke has over ten years of “street” experience dealing in bank bills, bonds, FX, swaps and swaptions, futures, options and other derivative instruments as a proprietary trader and risk manager/taker. During Bernd’s years in the markets he was witness to and involved in some fascinating instances of risk-taking. Bernd’s work experience includes time spent with Bank of New Zealand (Australia), Merrill Lynch (in Sydney, New York and London), Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank and Westpac. Bernd has written several articles on swaps and contributed a chapter to the book “Global Swap Markets”. He has developed large-scale swap portfolio risk management software which is considered state-of-the-art.


SHANE MAGEE BCom Newcastle (NSW), MAppFin PhD Macq, PRM

Fellow (Financial Instruments)

Shane Magee has over 10 years experience in the finance industry. Shane was a Senior Vice President in the Corporate Treasury division of Citigroup where he was responsible for funding, managing currency and interest rate risks, liquidity management, funds transfer pricing and capital planning. Shane has been involved in structured funding transactions and has participated as an end user in the money market, spot and forward foreign exchange markets and swaps market. Shane’s research interests include investigating why firms’ hedge and whether hedging adds shareholder value.


CATRIONA MARCH BSc MSc Syd

Visiting Fellow (Exotic Options)

Catriona has more than twenty years experience in the finance industry, including fourteen years as a quantitative analyst concerned with the pricing and hedging of exotic options in the dealing room of Westpac Institutional Bank and in Market Risk Management. She has also worked at Macquarie Bank, Australian Gilt Securities as well as various software companies and is currently a Senior Quantitative Analyst in the Analytical Solutions Group in the Westpac Financial Markets. Catriona has taught the Exotics Options unit in the Masters of Applied Finance program since 1999 and is completing a PhD at the MAFC on pricing and hedging exotic options.


PATRICK McCONNELL BSc QUBelfast, MSc Westminster, D.B.A Dip Mgmt Cons Henley/Brunel, FBCS, C.Eng., CITP, GAICD

Visiting Fellow (Managing Operational Risk)

Patrick McConnell is a partner with Risk Trading Technology, a small consultancy specialising in IT and Risk Management. In over 20 years in the financial industry, Patrick has worked with investment banks in the US, Europe and Australia to develop and implement IT strategies to support all aspects of risk management (Credit, Market and Operational). Patrick has also published articles on the application of IT to Finance and Risk Management in academic and practitioner journals.


SHEELAGH McCRACKEN MA Camb, PhD Syd, Cert. H. Ed. UNSW

Visiting Fellow (Legal Risk in Finance)

Sheelagh McCracken is admitted as a solicitor in England, New South Wales and Hong Kong. She has practised in finance law with a major commercial law firm in the City of London and has held consultancies with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Singapore and with a leading Australian law firm in Sydney. She has held a range of academic appointments and has published extensively on banking and finance law.


FIONA McNABB BSc Mon, CFTF GAICD

Visiting Fellow (Financial Risk Management)

Fiona McNabb is a risk management consultant and non-executive director with over twenty years of corporate experience in major Australian banks and the government sector, mainly in Melbourne. She has worked in a wide range of risk related areas including market, credit and operational risk, compliance and corporate governance, Treasury management, interest rate derivatives and quantitative analysis. Fiona has a B.Sc. majoring in Pure Mathematics and is a partially qualified actuary. Fiona is currently a director of VicForests and chair of the VicForests Audit and Risk Management Committee, a deputy director of VicSuper and is on two not-for-profit boards, the Australian Poetry Centre and Baseball Victoria.


GORDON PREECE BA MA Sydney, ThL (Hons) Moore, Dip. Min ACT, BD (Hons) London, MScSoc UNSW, PhD Fuller

Visiting Fellow (Ethical Risk in Finance)

Gordon Preece has worked for churches, with the Education Program for Unemployed Youth and taught professional ethics at tertiary level for 20 years, including directing centres for applied ethics. His specialty is the ethics of work, professions and business. Gordon has written or edited eleven books including “Christianity and Entrepreneurship” and “Changing Work Values”. He has lectured in universities in Sydney and Melbourne and in the US, Canada, Cambridge (UK), New Zealand and St Petersburg. He has wide local and global experience of workplace ethics. Gordon was Director of Macquarie Christian Studies Institute and Urban Seed, Melbourne, a not for profit working with marginalized people, corporates and educational bodies. He is now ethicist for Christian Super, adjunct lecturer in Ethics for Ridley College Melbourne and editor Zadok Perspectives.


ELIZABETH SHEEDY BComm UNSW, PhD Macq, DipBibStud.

Associate Professor (Modelling Market Risk, Financial Risk Management)

Elizabeth Sheedy has worked in the finance industry for a number of institutions including Macquarie Bank and Westpac. Her industry experience was primarily in engineering structured derivative products for corporate and institutional clients. She had a special interest in the management of currency risks, developing the first Australian currency overlay product for asset portfolios. Since joining the Centre in 1993, she has undertaken several consulting roles relating to the use of derivatives by investors and fund managers. Elizabeth has co-edited a book on derivatives, a book on financial risk management and is on the Academic Advisory Committee for PRMIA (Professional Risk Manager’s International Association). Her current research and teaching focus is in financial risk management (for banks, fund managers and non-financial institutions) as well as volatility clustering and its application to modelling risk.


BRUCE TERRY BA (Hons) York, CA

Visiting Fellow (Management of Financial Institutions)

After working for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co (now KPMG), Bruce Terry joined Hill Samuel in London in 1984, working as an Executive in the Corporate Finance Division. In 1986, he transferred to Macquarie Bank Ltd in Sydney. After working in the Risk Management Division, where he managed the Bank’s relationship with the prudential regulators, he was appointed Head of the Retail Division of the Investment Services Group. He was subsequently Head of the International Division of the Bank’s Financial Services Group. As Head of Retail, Bruce was responsible for all client service and marketing aspects of Macquarie Bank’s range of retail products. This included the Cash Management Trust (the first of its kind in Australia), other unit trusts and a wide range of superannuation and rollover products. As Head of International Division he had responsibility for identifying overseas opportunities for the wealth management business. Bruce currently serves as a Non-Executive Director or Chairman of several wholly owned subsidiaries of Macquarie Bank, and was also Vice-Chairman of the Investment Funds Association.


RICHARD TINSLEY BSc Mich, MSc Columbia

Visiting Fellow (Project Finance)

Richard Tinsley is President of International Advisory & Finance, a network of firms in the resources, power and infrastructure sectors in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Boston, California, London, Johannesburg, and Bombay. Richard is an engineer/economist/banker with some 30 years experience, mostly as a strategic/financial advisor or as the lead banker on numerous transactions – at last count in 34 countries. He has worked in five countries – Ireland, Canada, USA, UK and Australia. In the finance field, Richard has been project finance director at Continental Bank (Chicago); European Banking Company (London); and Prudential-Bache Capital Funding and Indosuez Australia (Sydney, Australia). Projects have ranged from Australia’s first privatisation by way of a project financing (and the largest equity issue to that date); Victoria’s first PPP cogeneration transaction; all the way to a $400 million fertiliser development (with railway) in Sri Lanka – all in the lead/advisor role.


ROB TREVOR BEc (Hons) Syd, MA PhD Princeton

Associate Professor (Derivatives Valuation and PhD Program)

Rob Trevor is also the Head of Quantitative Research (Hedge) for MIR Investment Management. He has provided derivatives and risk management advice to a number of institutional clients (including Bankers Trust, BT Fund Management, Grant Samuel and Macquarie Bank) as well as Promontory Financial Group Australasia, the Australian Securities Commission and the Australian Stock Exchange. Rob is a founding member and currently Vice-President of the Q Group Australia and a member of the Advisory Board of The Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. He joined the Centre following academic appointments at Princeton University and the Australian Graduate School of Management. Prior to that he spent 15 years with the Reserve Bank of  Australia. Rob also oversees the Centre’s PhD and Research programs. Rob’s research has been published in a number of academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and the Journal of Risk.


JULIAN TURECEK BE(Chem)(Hons) BCom Melb; MAppFin Macq

Visiting Fellow (Emissions Trading)

Julian Turecek has an extensive background in the energy and greenhouse markets, having worked for major Australian corporates such as BHP Petroleum and Origin Energy. After trading spot and contract electricity and gas in the early days of the National Electricity Market, he then set up and ran Origin’s Carbon Markets desk, transacting a variety of ‘green’ instruments, and then worked in policy and government affairs focusing on climate change policy. He completed a Masters thesis on “Pricing Carbon in the Capital Markets”. Julian is currently an Investment Manager at Cleantech Ventures, a venture capital company specialising in the cleantech sector.


PETER VANN BSc MSc PhD UQ

Visiting Fellow (Financial Risk Management)

Peter Vann has worked for 20 years in the investment and risk management industry. Peter is Head Investment Research at Constellation Capital Management and prior to that had roles such as Head of Structured Investments Group at County and also at Westpac and DBSM where he was responsible for managing equities, fixed interest and protection mandates. Peter also undertook financial forecasting and balance sheet modelling assignments, for a wide range of insurers and other financial related entities, to determine P&L, capital adequacy, and risk assessment and management. Peter founded the Q Group Australia and is a regular contributor to industry conferences.


CHRIS WHITE BTh, MA (King’s College London), FIA, FIAA

Visiting Fellow (Ethical Risk in Finance)

Chris White is an actuary who worked for over thirty years for the consultancy Towers Perrin (now part of Frank Russell in Australia) in superannuation consulting, asset consulting and management roles, in Australia and Europe. Since retiring early he has studied Christian ethics (which he teaches part-time); his major interests are in business and professional ethics, the relationship between faith and economics, and the economics of the Canadian philosopher Bernard Lonergan. He is a member of a number of boards and committees in both the for profit and not for profit sectors, and is actively involved with the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.


DAVID WING BComm LLB UQ, MTax UNSW, MAppFin Macq

Visiting Fellow (Infrastructure and Property)

David Wing has over 16 years experience in corporate finance and as an advisor and arranger of development and investment capital. David has acted for many of Australia’s leading construction companies as well as participating in numerous private and public capital raisings for a wide range of businesses and industries. In that capacity he has undertaken a variety of roles not solely as an advisor but also as a principal, where he has lead the establishment of consortiums to undertake infrastructure projects in Queensland and Victoria. His experience places him in a unique position to provide practical and pragmatic advice from a ‘hands-on’ perspective, especially in relation to projects involving diverse stakeholder groups and interaction with all levels of Government and associated agencies and Departments.


PHILLIP WING BEc MEc PhD Macq

Visiting Fellow (Private Equity Investment)

Phillip was a partner for 7 years with Technology Venture Partners (TVP), an institutional venture capital fund with $200m under management. For the past 2 years he has been an active founder and angel investor of start up and later stage companies. He is currently a non-executive director of five private equity funded companies. Phillip has also held a number of CEO and general management roles in Asia and the US and has experience as an applied researcher. Phillip’s previous professional roles include: active board participation on a number of TVP portfolio companies, General Manager for Strategy, Marketing and Business Development for IBM Global Services (Australia and New Zealand), and the IBM Consulting Group (Asia Pacific), Managing Partner roles with Touche Ross, KPMG and Ernst & Young and Chief Information Officer of NSW Health. He participated as a member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, was Chairman of AVCAL’s (Private Equity Industry Association) Education Sub Committee, and an AVCAL Board member. He is a Member of AVCAL, the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Australian Computer Society.