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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As the Chief Operating Officer for Sandon Capital I am responsible for all the non investment decision making of the firms operations and its associated funds. Having worked in a large institutional business I have been able to create a fit for purpose model to support the business needs. This has seen me make enhancements to the business governance, risk and compliance frameworks, create and chair appropriate committees to manage these and review and enhance the end to end investment processes through process redesign and system implementations.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Drove the continuous optimisation of the Macquarie platform to ensure the significant investment made in earlier years delivered scalable solutions that maximised business benefit. Led to the creation of programs to onboard our Vienna business, globalise our fixed income data and portfolio management capability, globalise our equity trading and created the implementation plan for the acquisition of Waddell & Reed.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

As part of Macquarie's globalisation journey I relocated to the US to establish the global investment operations capability. In addition to that I became globally responsible for the management of moving the entire business onto our new operating platform. Whilst in the US I managed the implementation of our platform across that location, Australia, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg as well as the onboarding of an acquisition we made. I created a 24 hour real time support model that was underpinned by three regions being Australia, India and the US that reported to me. Recognising the need to continue to support and invest in the platform created I established the Business Product Integration platform teams located in Australia, United State & India.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Acquisitions and organic growth led to different businesses on different platforms. As a result Macquarie performed a review and this resulted in the creation of a global platform strategy. As Chief Operating Officer I managed overall business activity across the Asia Pacific Region and drove business decisions and outcomes that were aligned to our determined core. I acted as Macquarie Asset Management Global COO representative to ensure global business alignment to corporate organisational policies and programs.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Macquarie continued to consolidate businesses onto the platform created to support Macquarie Funds Group and grow organically and inorganically. The organisation began to leverage the platform across broader business activity leading to additional revenue and bespoke business opportunities. In addition to being responsible for middle, regulatory and back office functions I played a key enablement lead role in the organic growth of the organisation and held Board positions on Macquarie entities, represented business on bank wide working committees and industry based bodies such as Omgeo advisory board in Australia.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Macquarie's organic growth led to its expansion into global markets and having teams in different locations around the world. Investments were made to continue growth and enable scale. I was involved in the creation of the operating platform to support the middle and back office activities and had responsibility for middle and back office functions that supported business activity across Sydney, Hong Kong, London and New York locations.The operating platform created became the backbone of a new group formed being Macquarie Funds Group which consolidated all asset management activities that had become created across the organisation into one operating group.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Macquarie began to organically grow its asset management capabilities domestically. As the organisation grew I identified synergies across the operations platform that enabled the merging of various support groups into one area. This increased efficiency and scale and reduced operating costs over the period.Managed the day to day activities of the custody business.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Macquarie was in its infancy in the asset management space and was creating start up capabilities to support its ambitions. As part of that I identified and implemented numerous small projects that reduced costs and increased efficiencies around custody and middle office processes. Being in a start up stage I was able to develop a strong understanding of various securities and products used in the market place across all asset class sectors.