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Australia

bbAppLabs offer treasury risk management consulting services and are a niche provider of bespoke software to the global financial services industry.Consultants and development teams are based in the UK and Australia produce applications for the Bloomberg App Portal Store under a range of innovative pricing models. We aim to provide best practice customer service and experiences with strong customer feedback loops – we are responsive to customer requests for additional features, products and services.

Every partner in the Fund has spent a fair bit of time in or with young, high-growth companies, and our collective experience and networks will be most useful to companies at this stage.

First Derivatives is a global provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets technology sector. Their Delta/kdb+ product suite includes enterprise risk, algorithmic/program trading and data management solutions - all of which deliver true real-time performance. First Derivatives grew from 140 people to over 650 worldwide in my three year period of employment and counts many of the world's top investment banks, exchanges, regulators, brokers and hedge funds as its customers.London . New York . Philadelphia . Boston . Chicago . Toronto . Stockholm . Frankfurt . Hong Kong . Shanghai . Singapore . Sydney

Founding Principal of Hologram, a company specialising in Treasury advisory services, Business Intelligence solutions and high-performance trading and risk systems.Solutions were generally driven by Business Intelligence platforms bringing together disparate data sources for Master Data Management with corporate wide reporting (ie KPI / GL / Intelligent Dashboards / Statutory Reporting for Regulators (ie Basel II) /etc.Software developed by the founders is currently used by several hundred financial institutions and corporate treasuries globally. With offices in Sydney and Adelaide, Hologram offers near-shore support to large corporates and investment banks in the Asia Pacific region from a low cost base. Hologram Pty Ltd was acquired by Northern Ireland-based software and consulting services provider First Derivatives plc on the 2nd April 2009.

Started working with GIS - Global Information Solutions (NZ) - and ended up working for Sungard. I was one of two principals contracted to design and develop the Quantum Treasury Risk Management system, QRisk (now branded AvantGard Risk). GIS - Global Information Solutions was acquired by Sungard in March 2000.QRisk has become an industry standard as part of US company Sungard Treasury Systems’ AvantGard Risk solution. Sungard is a global leader in treasury systems.SunGard's AvantGard has been recognised for the tenth consecutive year by Treasury Management International (TMI) at the publication's annual awards. AvantGard was named "Best Treasury Technology Provider" in three separate categories: Risk Management Solutions 2008; Cash & Working Capital Management Solutions 2008; and Client Support Services 2008.The TMI awards are open to treasury and financial professionals across the world and are intended to recognize excellence in software applications and banking relationships. The 2008 awards were chosen by a poll of over 1,600 TMI readers.It was an absolute pleasure to be part of the small team who designed and developed AvantGard Risk.

Worked on trading floor and was responsible for designing risk and pricing models. Quantitative Risk Management expertise spans interest rate, credit, currency, equity, commodity and energy markets.

Various roles in the Global Treasury Division. Term assignments on dealing/trading floors in London, Sydney and Adelaide.A member of the Product & System Development Team I was involved in developing a totally integrated treasury solution for front, middle and back office used worldwide (including the banks electronic clearing system connected to the Sydney Futures Exchange with SPAN margins).Towards the end, I returned from London to be involved with the quantitative side of the toxic asset management program. SAAMCO (bad bank) was created to manage the toxic assets split out from the Bank SA (leaving a good bank). Bank SA was then on sold to the St George Banking Group.

Part time lecturer in Business Studies responsible for course design, presentation and examinations.

Postgrad, Company Director Course

Activities and Societies: Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors

Postgrad, Governor'S Leadership Foundation Program

Masters In Applied Finance

Afma Dealer Accreditation Program

Postgrad, Securities

Computer Science (Awarded Degree With Distinction), Marketing Major

Cftp - Certified Finance And Treasury Professional