Managing Director at Equion Capital focussing on providing top tier advice to the Australian Mid-Market corporates and investors on capital events, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital raising, debt raising and general corporate finance advice. I have over fifteen years of Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets experience including experience as an ASX Listed Company Director and guest speaker on ausbiz where I feature monthly to update the market on the M&A sector within the Australian mid-market.With an extensive local and global business network of Corporates, ASX Market and Non-Market Participants, Intermediaries (Legal & Accounting firms), Investment Banks, Trading Banks, Private Equity Funds, Institutional Investors, Family Offices and ASX Listed and Unlisted Public Companies, I specialise in providing high quality corporate and strategic advice to both private and public companies especially in relation to corporate restructures, takeovers, mergers, acquisitions and divestments, capital management, including debt and equity raisings, IPO’s and MBO’s.

I am a Non Executive Director of GrowMetrics, a SaaS online marketing platform offering an all-inclusive social media scheduling service that allows businesses to do all their advertising in the same place. From organising and scheduling content to paid automated ads tailored to suit any brand’s needs GrowMetrics uses strategy and scale to disrupt agency norms and empower the modern SME.

As a Director/Partner and National Chair of the Corporate Finance Division at Moore Australia I specialise in providing high quality corporate and strategic advice to both private and public companies especially in relation to lead financial advisory services on business sale & acquisition processes, including:- Sell and Buy side advisory services;- Equity capital structuring and arranging/procuring;- Practical application of capital management review;- Valuation advisory services including business valuations, IER, valuation option analysis, brand valuations, employee share option valuations, equity valuations and feasibility studies;- Delivery of financial models- Due diligence assistance as part of a transaction or proposed transaction (including vendor, financial and commercial due diligence services);- Broader corporate finance advisory and strategic assessments that impact on business operations and performance.

I am a second round judge for the annual Finnie Awards, the most recognized awards that celebrates the success of the Australian fintech industry.

The Habitat Capital Fund No.1 is collateralised by the iconic Nu hotel project (the “Project”) being developed by DCF Property and located at 28-32 Albert Road, South Melbourne. The twenty-five (25) level mix-use building will consist of a restaurant and bar facility, an 88-room hotel and 43 luxury apartments. The building will also include a 4-level basement car park facility catering for approximately 66 cars.The Project sits on approximately 1,020sqm and is located in the tightly held & highly sought after Domain precinct at the heart of the exclusive suburbs of South Yarra & South Melbourne, and positioned between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kings Domain and Albert Park.A development permit has been granted and final design adjustment is expected to be approved and received in early September 2022 with construction commencing shortly thereafter.The total size of this fund is $20million, of which $15million is underwritten by the Fund Manager Habitat Investments Pty Ltd.

As the Vice President of Water Polo Victoria my role was to ensure the successful running of water polo in Victoria through the implementation of the organisation Strategic Plan. This role included ensuring all necessary employment positions within the organisation were suitably filled, reviewing all employees and ensuring key performance indicators were met, assisting in the financial management of the organisation and chairing on the Marketing and Sponsorship Sub-Committee.

As a Director of Water Polo Victoria in which my role as one of the Board Members was to ensure the successful running of water polo in Victoria. This role included ensuring all necessary employment positions within the organisation are suitably filled, reviewing all employees and ensuring key performance indicators were met, assisting in the financial management of the organisation and chairing on the Marketing and Sponsorship Sub-Committee.

I was the President of the Victorian National League Water Polo Club Inc (trading as the Victorian Seals) in which my role is to oversee the Executive Committee to ensure all necessary employment positions within the club were suitably filled (coaches, team managers, etc.), the elite players were appropriately managed, attended Australian Water Polo, Water Polo Victoria and National League Water Polo meetings, determined future direction/vision of the club, set goals to achieve this vision and ensured measurement of the success of achievement of these goals. Unfortunately the decision was made to fold the Club due to lack of support from the Water Polo Australia and Water Polo Victoria Communities.

As the Vice President of the Victorian Seals National League Water Polo Club my role was to assist the Executive Committee to ensure all necessary employment positions within the club are suitably filled (coaches, team managers, etc.), the elite players are appropriately managed and supported, ensure attendance by an Executive Committee member at Australian Water Polo, Water Polo Victoria and National League Water Polo meetings, determine future direction/vision of the club, set goals to achieve this vision and ensure measurement of the success of achievement of these goals.

I was elected onto the Board of Avexa Ltd (ASX: AVX) as a Non-Executive Director at the Companies AGM after successfully advising the acquisition of TALI Health Pty Ltd, the company behind a revolutionary and innovative cognitive function approach to the diagnosis and treatment of intellectual disabilities.After advising on both the acquisition of TALI Health Pty Ltd and the transfer of the TALI Technology into Avexa Ltd I stepped off the Board.

Non-Executive Director of TALI Health, an Australian company behind a revolutionary and innovative cognitive function approach to the diagnosis and treatment of intellectual disabilities.Resulting out of a collaboration between Monash University, Grey Innovation Pty Ltd and Torus Games Pty Ltd, this revolutionary and innovative solution addresses the absence of a holistic approach by the medical industry in addressing the limited awareness and treatment of Developmental Delay, including Autism, in modern society.Fundamental to the TALI Process is recognising that not all children with Developmental Delay have the same degree or type of attention difficulty. The TALI Process identifies the position of a particular child on the Developmental Delay spectrum so as to work on improving relative attention strengths and building attention skills, and also improving cognitive functions relating to memory, literacy and numeracy.Improvements in inattentive behaviours in the classroom and home, as well as improvements in literacy and numeracy have been proven in the extensive clinical trials conducted by Monash University’s School of Psychological Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences and Department of Information Technology, as well as Durham University’s Department of Psychology.The Company intends to deliver the Tali Process (i.e. application of the Tali Technology, assessment of results and reporting on results) initially within Australia through the direct sale of licences to individual sufferers through their clinical professionals (Psychologist, Speech Pathologists, Teachers and either a Paediatrician or a child/adolescent Psychiatrist).

As a member of the Corporate Advisory team at Novus Capital Ltd I was actively engaged in originating deal opportunities and implementing strategic business initiatives including mergers and acquisitions, as well as private and public equity capital raisings through Initial Public Offerings, private placements and rights issues. I worked closely with both the company’s management and the company’s investors, ensuring that everyone’s expectations are met and exceeded.

The Melbourne University Sports Association (MUSA), or the Sports Union as it was previously known, was founded on the 19th of April 1904. MUSA’s role in the University is, primarily, a representative one. It does not administer sport at the University of Melbourne but instead represents the students’ sporting interests both within the University and out. It comprises a council of sporting clubs and an elected executive that represents, according to its constitution, all students engaged in physical recreation both in clubs and in other areas. It does, then, hold the privileged position of representing students and of being able to influence sport decision-making at University. MUSA also sponsors a large number of promising athletes through scholarships each year.

I was the President of the Melbourne University Water Polo Club in which my main roles included liaising with Melbourne University Sport and Victorian Water Polo Inc, ensuring all necessary employment positions within the club were filled (coaches, team managers, etc), attending Melbourne University Sport and Water Polo Victoria council meetings, determining the future direction/vision of the club, setting goals to achieving the clubs vision and measuring the success of achievement of the clubs goals, chairing Executive Committee meetings, chairing the Australian University Games Committee and assisting in the organisation of the Australian University Games trips, and finally ensuring the ongoing viability and general welfare of the club.