Experience

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  STAC Capital

  • Brisbane, Australia

  • Managing Director

    • May 2017 - Present
    • Brisbane, Australia

    STAC Capital provides strategic debt brokerage & advisory services for: - Businesses in all industries, typically turning over up to $200m - Property developers across all sectors - Commercial & Industrial Property investors - Specialised Going-Concern Assets & Business such as Childcare, Retirement & Aged Care, Hotels etc - Consumers and investors seeking residential home financeWith decades of combined experience financing Businesses & Property, together with our deep relationships in Banking & Debt Markets, we advise & partner with our clients to Unlock Opportunities that make them Australia's economy creators.These attributes allow us assist clients that are larger and/or more complex than what the average finance broker is capable of managing, without the expense of a Big4 consulting firm. We value long-term partnerships with our clients, delivered with absolute professionalism.

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  Opterre Capital

  • Brisbane, Australia

  • Executive Director

    • Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
    • Brisbane, Australia

    The Opterre Capital Fund presents wholesale and sophisticated investors with property-backed contributory mortgage investments opportunities. The Fund focuses on Mezzanine Debt & Preferential Equity and distressed property project debts.

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  Macquarie Group

  • Brisbane, Australia

  • Business Banking

    • Jun 2015 - May 2017
    • Brisbane, Australia

    Managing a portfolio of commercial/corporate clients predominantly consisting of medium- to large-sized legal and insolvency firms, various professional services firms, commercial property investors/operators (various sectors) and HNWs. Macquarie Group is a global financial services provider, acting primarily as an investment intermediary for institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world. Alignment of interests is a longstanding feature of Macquarie’s client-focused business, demonstrated by its willingness to both invest alongside clients and closely align the interests of shareholders and staff.Macquarie’s diverse range of services includes corporate finance and advisory, equities research and broking, funds and asset management, foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities trading, lending and leasing and private wealth management.

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  Development Finance Partners

  • Brisbane, Australia

  • Associate Director

    • Dec 2013 - Jun 2015
    • Brisbane, Australia

    Leveraging off my years of property and trading business finance experience in banking, I put my knowledge into practical hands-on client-side advice to assist and/or drive a complete end-to-end solution. Experience within DFP included:- appointment and management of the full range of project professionals;- building complex financial models - arranging multi-layered finance structures to fund project cash flows (Senior & Junior debts, Preferential, Ordinary and JV equity);- project and portfolio strategising including “out of the box” thinking, incorporating all project risks and cash flows (market, construction, cost, deliverables);- complex credit risk analysis and preparation of detailed submissions;- business and relationship development of local, interstate and off-shore clients, partners and financiers/investors;- client and financier negotiations.Occasional trading business work-out strategy advisory appointments also allowed me to exercise the knowledge and skills acquired from my MBA.

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  World Traveller

  • Experiences instead of Experience

    • Mar 2013 - Nov 2013

    2013 was all about experiences for me - a time to take a break from the "real world" and see the world with my partner, Laura. We strapped on the backpack to see temples aplenty in Thailand, amazing scenery in Laos, a natural wonder of the world in Vietnam, then were sobered by learning more about the all too recent Khmer-Rouge atrocities in Cambodia. We bought a car at auction in Germany, walked around beautiful Amsterdam, drank crazy-good Hot Chocolate in Belgium, ate snails in France, rode horses through vineyards and past 500 year old villas in Tuscany, took in the majesty of Vienna, were harrowed at Auschwitz and Treblinka camps in Poland, saw countless "casino [and brothels?]" advertisements in Lithuania (but I swear we didn't go in!), ate a surprisingly expensive meal in Latvia, bought a shopping trolley full of cheap alcohol in Estonia, then drove onto the ferry to get to Finland, where we spent a month with Laura's family, eating reindeer and having countless saunas!I wore a kilt for the first time at a wedding in Scotland, relaxed with my sister, her husband and my gorgeous 5 year old niece in England. We then put the backpack on again, overloaded on Tacos, beer and tequila in Mexico; rice, beans and rum in Cuba, climbed two volcanoes in Guatemala (one peak at 13,000 feet, which was the hardest exercise I've ever done, thanks to the reduced oxygen at that height!), finally nearly went mad in the 4th world Nicaragua!What an adventure - nevertheless it was still great to come home!

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  National Australia Bank

  • Senior Business Banking Manager

    • Jul 1999 - Mar 2013

    I spent 12 years working within NAB's Business Banking, starting in Canberra, then on the northside of Brisbane, getting my first management job in 2006 in Airlie Beach, before coming back to Brisbane northside in early 2008 as the GFC started rocking the world.Experience in a wide range of industries and facets of commercial banking, including: - Property Development & Investment- Construction- Distressed risk management- High net worth individuals- Interest Rate risk management- Foreign Exchange risk management- Credit Analysis / Decisioning- Manufacturing- Wholesaling- Import / Export- International Trade- Commodity hedgingI always played a role more than just a debt funder – actively being involved with all professionals and consultants involved throughout a project, to ensure as smooth and successful an outcome as possible. I actively managed many distressed assets, together with clients, successfully negotiating many ‘win-win’ outcomes in situations where the outcome most likely would have otherwise been a foreclosure at loss to all parties.