Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Property Investment Management leader passionate about growing successful property portfolios through building high performing teams and customer partnerships A highly qualified and experienced Chief Executive Officer / Property Funds Management Executive / Property Director with hands-on, customer focused property investment management leadership. Thrives building and leading high performing teams and setting the cultural tone and accustomed to growing businesses, change management and delivery of strategy. Deep experience across listed and wholesale unlisted real estate funds in CEO / CIO and senior leadership roles. SPECIALIST EXPERTISE • Growing resilient and thriving property portfolios and teams (domestically and internationally) • End to end property investment management skills (IM, IR, AM, PM, DM, Projects, Marketing, Risk, Treasury, IR, etc) • Deep transactional and JV experience CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Building and leading Australia’s fastest growing office investment management team which has grown from ~$4B to $20B in assets with a further $4.5B development pipeline, whilst arguably running the highest performing funds • Acquired and disposed >A$25b of investment grade assets • Raised >$15b of debt and equity through cyclical peaks and troughs supporting business growth
MY EXECUTIVE CAREERS HAVE BEEN FAR FROM EASY BUT MOST DEFINITELY "EXPERIENCE RICH": - CIO role and 3 growth orientated CEO roles (ASX Top 100 company, A$25B portfolio role in public company, leading a smaller private company) - Experience raising, managing and communicating across listed, institutional and private client capital - Experience managing and driving investor value across office, I&L, retail, and living sectors - Operating, growing & improving RE funds business nationally & internationally (US / Japan / EU) - Driving performance and improvements across disciplines (Investment, Capital Raise, AM & PM, Transactions, Development, Marketing, Treasury etc) - building and leading teams with a strong focus on developing cultural expectations A SAMPLE OF CHALLENGES I HAVE TAKEN A LOT FROM: - As CIO and then CEO building an ASX100 REIT portfolio from $200m to >A$7B (domestic to international) -Dealing with banks in GFC refusing to refinance debt and forcing emergency recap (from middling to highest to lowest price) -navigating event driven hedge fund attack played out in the media (and winning at meeting to destabilise management) -privatising that platform with 2 sovereign wealth funds leading to new "Partnerships" business -Executive Director for ASX:CLW - working on IPO and subsequently most active ASX vehicle by cap raises -Crossing over from larger institutional arena into private family controlled private business
I joined Centennial in the middle of the pandemic and have immensely enjoyed helping shape Centennial’s evolution as Managing Director and Joint Managing Director. (with a brief stint as JMD) Centennial highlights over this period include: - building and trebling the team with a focus on culture to over 50 terrifically talented individuals - trebling AUM to ~$3B including the committed development pipeline - generating strong investment outcomes for investment partners (average realised IRR of 20%) - diversifying institutional investors including Brookfield and across our Wealth clients and our lenders - significant investment into improved systems governance and processes supporting our active transaction load (32 in 2025 alone!) - significantly improved profile and brand awareness - building a platform that our more sophisticated investors expect from their leading partners & managers. This growth really stands out against the backdrop of a challenging post pandemic macro-environment in which most or our peers were relatively inactive or in some cases saw their investors & capital partners halt all new activity. The business is at an exciting juncture, growing its first Open-Ended Fund and exploring introducing a Strategic Partner, enabled by the strength of the platform.
Lead the office sector team from end to end including the Fund Managers, Asset Management, Development Management, Property Management, Projects, Marketing and Finance disciplines. The office sector comprised ~120 team members managing Australia’s largest (1.65 million sqm) commercial office portfolio valued at ~$20 billion, almost half of Charter Hall’s asset base. Additionally, the team originated, curated and managed a development pipeline with an end value of a further ~$4.5 billion
Set Trust strategy with board and guide investment management, financial and capital management, transactional and investor relations activities