Ian Macoun, Chairman
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.

Dr Emmanuel Clive Pohl, Managing Director and Investment Committee Chairman
Pr Eng, BSc (Eng), MBA, DBA, FAICD, MSDIA, SA Fin

Dr Emmanuel 'Manny' Pohl joined 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.

Deborah Beale, Director
B Com, MBA, F Fin

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 consults to the company on public affairs and government relations.

In addition to her directorship with Hyperion, Deborah sits on the boards of Emergency Services Superannuation Scheme, Western Chances and the Victorian Arts Centre.  She is Chair of the Victorian Consumer Credit Advisory Committee and is a former lecturer and marker for the Securities Institute of Australia.

Derek Goodyer, Director
B Econ, SF Fin, ASA, MAICD

Derek Goodyer is based in Sydney and is currently a Director of a leading global fund of hedge fund group, which is headquartered in London and has in excess of US$12 billion under management.

Derek is the former Chief Executive of a $3.9 billion investment management company, which offered a full range of multi-asset portfolios and specialised in the management of Australian equities for the wholesale segment of the Australian market. Derek also spent over ten years at one of Australia’s leading investment banks in a range of roles including jointly running the Sydney institutional dealing operation, research team and heading equity derivatives group.