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Steven Shane Pritchard, B Com, CPA, F Fin - Executive Chairman
Steven Pritchard obtained a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Newcastle in 1986, and qualified as a Certified Practising Accountant in 1988.
He has been providing investment advice as a representative of a licensed dealer in securities since 1988.
He completed the Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment in 1993, and was admitted as a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
In 1996 he was admitted as a member of NSX and was instrumental in establishing Pritchards to provide investment advice to clients of Rees Pritchard Pty Limited.
He was a director of NSX from 1996 to 2003 and its Chairman from 2000 to 2003. During that time he was responsible for developing the strategic plan which saw the renaissance of NSX as a capital market for small, medium and regionally based companies. In 2009 he was reappointed as a director and the Chairman of NSX Limited.
In 2002 he was responsible for the establishment of Cameron Capital Limited, which acquired the ASX Participating Organisation Cameron Stockbrokers Limited. He remains the current Executive Chairman of the Cameron Capital Limited Group.
In 2003 he was appointed to the board of the Winpar Holdings Limited, which was the first company to list on the rejuvenated NSX.
In 2004 he was jointly responsible with Daniel Di Stefano for a successful capital raising for and the listing of Illuminator Investment Company Limited on NSX. The company became both the first Newcastle based company to list on NSX, and the first Newcastle based listed institutional investor.
He is the Executive Chairman of Pritchard Equity Limited and a director of Florin Mining Investment Company Limited, both of which are investment companies listed on the NSX.
He is a past Branch Councillor and Chairman of CPA Australia, and received the President's Award in 2000 for outstanding contributions to CPA Australia.
Giles Cameron Craig, B Sc Econ (Hons), FCA - Executive Director
Giles Craig is Managing Director of Cameron Stockbrokers Limited, a Sydney based private client stockbroker.
Prior to his appointment in 2009, Giles was Head of Private Clients at AMP Capital Limited (2003-2008) where he was responsible for the distribution of funds to the retail market, including the AMP Capital China Fund and the ASX listed AMP Capital China Growth Fund. Immediately prior to that he was Head of Distribution for Henderson Private Capital (1999-2003) where he was responsible for raising funds for private equity and infrastructure. This included the development of the POWERS Trust and The DUET Group.
He worked in Corporate Finance at Smith New Court/Merrill Lynch (1992-1998) in London and specialised in the initial public offers and restructuring of investment trusts listed on the London Stock Exchange. Issues included Perpetual Income & Growth, Schroder AsiaPacific and Murray VCT2 and 3. Restructurings included the successful defence and unitisation of the £500 million Kleinwort European Privatisation Investment Trust and the convertible unsecured loan stock issue and buy-back for First Ireland Investment Trust.
He has also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley (1989-1990).
Giles qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Whinney in 1986 and worked as an auditor with them in London and as a management consultant with them in Saudi Arabia.
Frederick Raymond Woollard, B Ec, F Finsia, GAICD - Executive Director
Fred is the founder and Managing Director of Samuel Terry Asset Management Limited, a boutique investment management company based in Sydney. It manages the Samuel Terry Absolute Return Fund. He is also a director of RuralAus Investments Limited.
Fred has worked in the stockbroking and funds management industry since 1981. He started as an office boy in a stockbroking firm, then worked as a clerk on the floor of the Sydney Stock Exchange. After completing his Economics degree, he became a client adviser in 1986.
From 1989 to 1998 he worked in London and Monaco as an investment analyst and fund manager for a wealthy private individual and entities associated with that person.
Fred spent 1998 and 1999 studying the market for second-hand life insurance policies, and building a substantial portfolio of such policies. In early 2000 he launched a campaign to demutualise Standard Life, which was then the UK's largest mutually owned insurance company. The campaign aimed to create a listed company worth around £15bn (around $A30bn) but, after strong opposition from the company's management, policyholders narrowly voted against Fred's proposal. Standard Life subsequently demutualised in 2003.
From 2000 to 2003 Fred worked in London as an executive director of Hunter Hall International Limited, managing Hunter Hall's European and American portfolio of equities and distressed debt.
In April 2003, Fred left Hunter Hall to return to Sydney and set up Samuel Terry Asset Management in 2004.
Gordon Bradley Elkington, B Sc (Hons), M Sc, Ph D, LLM - Executive Director
Gordon Elkington undertook his early training in science, engineering and law. He was a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sydney between 1971 and 1974, and the Director of the Law Extension Committee of the University of Sydney between 1982 and 1996.
Gordon was admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1979. He is a director and the secretary of Winpar Holdings Limited and Stokes (Australasia) Limited, and a director of Pritchard Equity Limited. He is also a member of the New South Wales Legal Qualifications Committee, and the Revising Examiner in Contract Law for the New South Wales Legal Profession Admission Board.
For many years he has been actively involved in promoting and protecting the rights of small shareholders. |
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