Our People

Our People

Our team of dedicated partners and senior staff come with experience from top tier strategy consulting practices as well as many of them operating leadership roles in industry.

We have one of the largest investment teams in Australia with a stable partner group and an average senior partner tenure of over 20 years.

Michael Alscher

Founder, Managing Partner – BComm

Daren McKennay

Partner – BBus, MBA, CA

Neville Buch

Partner – BSc Eng (Hons), MBA

Peter Lyon-Mercado

Partner – BEng (Civil) (Hons), FCA, SA Fin

Nathanial Thomson

Partner – BComm (Hons), LlB (Hons)

Stuart Butterworth

Partner – BA / LLB (First Class)

Ondrej Ruzicka

Managing Partner Consumer Fund – B.Bus, MBA

Giuseppe Valletta

Investment Director – BSc(physics), MSc(physics)

Patrick Schmidt

Investment Director – BComm (Fin)/LLB (First Class Hons), MBA

Eugen Lamotte

CFO Private Equity Funds – BComm, Master Financial Analysis

Lucy Cooper

Director ESG – BEng(First Class Hons)

Russell Sinclair

Managing Partner Private Credit – BComm

Eric Fischer

Partner Private Credit – BComm, MBA

Caitlin Spitzke

CFO/COO Private Credit – BComm, CA

Simon Birrell

Managing Partner Listed Equities – BComm/ Property & Construction

Matthew Thomson

Assistant Portfolio Manager – BComm, CFA, CA (SA)

Peter Scrine

Director Business Development

Dan Waine

Director Business Development – B.Com CA

Cressida Mort

Director Investor Relations – BA, MBA (Marketing)