EXPERTISE/SPECIALISATIONS:

• Financial Services, especially investment banking
• Equity markets
• Managing change in organisations
• Executive mentoring with an emphasis on leadership, self awareness and problem-solving.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Bill was previously a long-time Hill Samuel /Macquarie Bank executive retiring in 2010 after over 27 years with the investment bank. During this time, he held a variety of senior management positions including the first Sydney branch manager of the retail bank, Managing Director of Macquarie Equities and joint head of Macquarie Underwriting Limited.

All these roles involved either a start-up or developing a business at its early stages into a profitable operation, with the attendant challenges of strategic direction, managing rapid growth, and staff recruitment, retention and motivation.

Macquarie Underwriting Limited, where Bill worked from 1991 until his retirement in 2010, evolved from a start-up business (where he was one of two initial employees) to a market leader by the end of the 1990s, consistently ranking 1/2 in the capital-raising league tables for the 10 years to 2010. Achieving this success in a highly competitive environment populated predominantly by global firms was a testament to the skills and commitment of the team which Bill helped develop and mentor over a sustained period.

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING:

• Bachelor of Commerce and Law degrees, Melbourne University
• Master of Commerce in Finance, UNSW.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS & MEMBERSHIPS:

• Director, Intrepica Ltd
• Deputy Chairman & Treasurer, Inala (a Rudolph Steiner-based community for adults with intellectual disabilities); Board member since 1996
• Director, Australian Chamber Orchestra; Chairman of their Sydney Development Committee and Deputy Chairman of the recently-formed ACO Instrument Fund .

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Sport, travel, history, cycling, golf and trekking.