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Julian Biggins
Joint-CEO – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5577

Julian is Joint Chief Executive Officer of MA Financial Group and was one of the founders of the company in 2009. Julian has over 15 years of investment banking experience, primarily covering the real estate industry. Throughout his career, Julian has provided capital and transaction advisory services to real estate companies and funds management clients in the Asia-Pacific region. He has experience in global real estate markets and has advised Australian companies acquiring real estate or real estate businesses in the U.S., U.K., Continental Europe, Japan and China.

Julian holds a Bachelor of Business (Property) in addition to a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from the University of South Australia.

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Giles Boddy
Chief Financial Officer – MA Financial Group
Sydney

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Giles Boddy is the Chief Financial Officer of MA Financial Group.

Giles is an accomplished finance executive with extensive experience in financial services. During his career he has held a variety of roles including CFO, Chief Risk and Legal Officer and COO, and built significant experience in banking, mortgage broking, equities, wealth and asset management, franchises, corporate transactions and risk culture transformation.

Giles has held several senior leadership roles at Lendi Group, Aussie Home Loans, Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank, where he was instrumental in developing and building new businesses and products, rationalising, and improving business processes to better deliver financial services to customers.

Giles holds an M.B.A. from the Australian Graduate School of Management and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

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Ben Boyd
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5480

Ben is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he is Head of Real Estate, and his experience spans across M&A, IPOs, listed equity raisings, wholesale capital raising, debt and strategic advisory. Ben has over 20 years of investment banking experience.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he was Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging for Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia. Prior to that, Ben worked at UBS and Citi in Australia. Ben holds a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales.

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Anthony Habis
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Head of Real Estate Partnerships
Sydney

T: +61 411 479 324

Anthony Habis is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Partnerships at MA Financial Group Asset Management. He has over 25 years of experience in covering asset owners and managers globally across their investment needs.

Before joining MA Financial Group, Anthony was a was Managing Director and Global Head of Client Coverage Asset Servicing at Bank of New York Mellon, based in New York, with oversight of the firm’s client franchise across all investor segments with assets under administration north of $46 trillion. He joined BNY Mellon as Head of Middle East and North Africa, where he led the firm’s growth agenda across several markets and businesses.

Prior to BNY Mellon, Anthony was a Managing Director at Citi’s Institutional Client Group and held several senior roles in the Middle East and Africa including, Corporate and Investment Banking Coverage, Head of Global Family Office MENA, and Head of Private Bank, Saudi Arabia & UAE.

Anthony has also held senior roles in Australia with National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Lendlease Communities.

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David Kells
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 411 575 823

David is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he focuses on Equity Capital Markets and high growth companies. David has over 20 years experience in investment banking and capital markets.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he worked for Morgans as a Corporate Advisory Director and before that, held a similar role at Shaw and Partners. David holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from the University of Technology Sydney and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.

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Andrew Martin
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5529

Andrew Martin is a Managing Director of Moelis Australia and the Head of Moelis Australia Asset Management. He has over 30 years’ experience in global investment as a principal investor and adviser across a range of sectors including real estate, infrastructure, private equity and energy.

Prior to joining Moelis Australia, Andrew was a Managing Director at UBS Global Asset Management in Infrastructure and Private Equity.

Prior to that Andrew was a principal of an asset management firm which founded several real estate funds in the US, Australia and Asia.

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Rebecca Ong
General Counsel – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5567

Rebecca Ong is General Counsel and Company Secretary at MA Financial Group. She is responsible for legal, compliance and company secretarial activities of Moelis Australia with over 15 years of experience as a lawyer in the financial services industry.

Prior to joining MA Financial Group, Rebecca was Regional Counsel at UBS, with primary responsibilities for advising its Asset Management businesses across Asia Pacific from both Sydney and Hong Kong.

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance)/Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales and is a Fellow with the Governance Institute of Australia.

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Andrew Pridham
Group Vice Chairman – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5537

Andrew Pridham AO is the Group Vice Chairman of MA Financial Group. Andrew has over 30 years of investment banking experience and is the former Executive Chairman of Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan Australia where he completed many major M&A, equity raising and other advisory transactions and played a leading role in the significant growth of J.P. Morgan’s Australian business.

Andrew also spent 12 years at UBS where he held senior roles including Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking and Head of Investment Banking for Australasia working in London and Singapore and was a member of the UBS Global Investment Banking Management Committee.

In 2009, he co-founded MA Financial Group. MA Financial Group was initially a 50:50 joint venture between NYSE-listed global investment bank Moelis & Company and its Australian executives. He was raised in Adelaide and is a graduate of the University of South Australia.

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Mike Pyke
Head of Institutional Capital – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5513

Mike Pyke is Head of Institutional Capital and responsible for MA Asset Management’s capital partnerships. Mike has been with Moelis Australia for six years. He worked heavily on Moelis Australia’s IPO in 2017 and subsequently led Moelis Australia’s IR & Strategy function. He has previously worked in Moelis Australia’s Corporate Advisory Team (restructuring) for large Australian corporates and leading global hedge funds.

Mike has over 10 years of diversified financial services experience. Prior to working at Moelis, Mike was at Citi Bank.

Mike holds a Master of Commerce (finance) from The University of Sydney.

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Paul Rathborne
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5511

Paul is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he is Head of Corporate Finance and focuses on capital solutions and mergers & acquisitions across a broad range of industries. Paul has been with MA Moelis Australia since it was established and has over 17 years of investment banking experience.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he was previously at J.P. Morgan in their real estate M&A team. Paul has a Bachelor of Commerce with distinction from the University of New South Wales.

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Janna Robertson
Chief Operating Officer – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5552

Janna Robertson is the Chief Operating Officer of MA Financial Group. She has over 20 years of  financial services experience and has held roles at Deloitte and KordaMentha where she was focused on advising clients in relation to financial and operational restructuring and transformation and performance improvement.

Janna is a graduate of the University of Technology Sydney, a chartered accountant and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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Eric Roles
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5435

Eric is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he covers the ECM Syndication efforts and has over 20 years of ECM and equity sales experience.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he worked at Macquarie for close to 12 years. His most recent position was Small & Emerging Co Sales, Origination & Corporate Broking where he liaised extensively with institutions and management teams of smaller cap Australian corporates. Before this, he was responsible for Macquarie’s international equities distribution efforts in North America.  Eric has spent close to 20 years working in New York and London for Macquarie, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse. Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of Western Australia.

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Simon Scott
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Head of Equities
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5418

Simon is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he is Head of Markets. Simon has over 20 years of experience in Australian financial markets primarily in the equities division of global investment banks including Credit Suisse, CitiGroup and Goldman Sachs.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he operated his own company where he provided advisory services to real estate companies and co-founded CorVal Partners, a boutique real estate funds management business. Simon holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland and a Master of Commerce from the University of Sydney.

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Christopher Stefanovski
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5632

Chris is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he focuses on business services, industrial services and private equity transactions and has over 15 years of experience in investment banking.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, Chris was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Group of Investec and previously a Partner and Head of Industrials for KPMG Corporate Finance.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Sydney University.

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Matthew Tehan
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5634

Matthew is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he focuses on private capital markets across both debt and equity. Matthew has over 20 years investment banking experience in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australian markets.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he worked for Houlihan Lokey as a Managing Director and Credit Suisse as Co-Head of Debt & Derivatives. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ANZ.