Deborah began her career at McIntosh and Company as a Financial Futures trader based in Melbourne. With increasing client responsibility, she worked her way up the division and post Merrill Lynch's takeover of McIntosh in 1997, Deborah was appointed Vice President Institutional Equity Sales where she worked across both domestic and international portfolios. In 2003, she joined Ernst & Young as Director, Governance Advisory Service and now is a Director of public affairs and government relations.
Deborah’s other current directorships are:- Director of Hyperion Holdings Limited; Director of Emergency Services and State Superannuation Scheme; Director of Western Chances; Director of Victorian Arts Centre; Director of The Production Company and Trustee of Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust. She is a former lecturer and marker for the Securities Institute of Australia.
Dr
Emmanuel Clive Pohl, Managing Director and Investment Committee Chairman Pr Eng, BSc (Eng), MBA, DBA, FAICD,
MSAA, SA Fin
Dr Emmanuel 'Manny' Pohl founded Hyperion Asset
Management in 1996, and is currently the Managing Director and Investment Committee Chairman.
Manny has been on the board of a number of major
corporations in South Africa and Australia. Manny has over 20 years
of investment experience, initially as a director and head of research
with the leading South African broking firm, Davis Borkum Hare followed
by Westpac Investment Management prior to joining Hyperion Asset
Management in 1996.
In 1991, Manny was a member of the South African
delegation to the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Bangkok. He was
a member of the South African Accounting Practices Board, until
he left South Africa in 1994. Manny is Managing Director of Hyperion
Flagship Investments Limited and a substantial shareholder in Hyperion
Asset Management, a Director of Global Masters Fund Limited and
former Director of Queensland Gas Company and the Great Barrier
Reef Research Foundation.
Murray D'Almeida, Director FAICD
Murray has over 30 years of national and international business experience. He qualified as an Accountant in Perth, WA and commenced with a firm of Chartered Accountants, before moving
to commercial accounting with two USA based mining companies. He founded the Retail Food
Group Australia and was instrumental in the growth of that company’s brands Donut King and
BB’s Coffee in Australia and internationally. He has also been involved in the restaurant,
wholesaling, farming, mineral exploration and liquor industries.
Murray is currently Chairman of Bartercard Australia Pty Ltd, the Federal Government’s Area
Consultative Committee for the Gold Coast and Regions, The Institute of Business Leaders Ltd,
Gold Coast Rugby Ltd, a member of the Gold Coast’s Regional Economic Development Advisory
Board and a member of a Griffith University Business School Advisory Board. He has held
previous positions as Chairman of Allied Brands Ltd and ECT Ltd (ASX listed entities), Director of
Bartercard P.L.C., Golden Pacific Resources Ltd, Capricorn ResourcesNL, Queensland Rugby Union, Australian Small Business Association and Franchisors Association of Australia and New
Zealand.
Ian Macoun, Director B.Com, MFM, CFA, CPA (Fellow), AICD (Fellow), Dip FS
Ian Macoun has nearly thirty years finance experience having begun his career at Queensland Treasury in the late 1970’s. In 1991 he became Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer at Queensland Investment Corporation before his appointment as Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Westpac Investment Management.
As inaugural Managing Director of Perennial Investment Partners Limited, he played an integral role in growing the company, with funds under management increasing substantially during his tenure. Most recently Ian was Managing Director Designate of International Wine Investments Limited and has just announced he has joined the Wilson HTM Investment Group as Managing Director of its funds management subsidiary, Pinnacle.
Apart from his previous directorships with International Wine Investments, Perennial and Westpac Investment management, Ian also served on the Queensland Treasury Corporation Investments Board and was a Member - Public Trust Office Investment Board (Queensland) and Chairman of Nickel Resources North Queensland.
