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State & NextGen Committees

NSW

Joslyn Jaekel-Smith

Agribusiness Manager - Lending Services

ANZ

Sarah McDougall

Associate

Resource Capital Funds

Bernadette Benedict

Associate Director

ANZ

Bernadette is a solutions focused Banker with 15 years banking experience across a range of financial [...]

Krystal Kimeklis

Relationship Manager – Property Services QLD

Macquarie Bank

Sophie Drake

Senior Counsel - Australia

Resource Capital Funds

Senior Counsel for an international private equity fund manager. Experience in diligencing, making, and maintaining medium [...]

Sam Broughton

Associate Director

KordaMentha Pty Ltd

Brooke McCluskey

Manager

Ernst & Young

Brooke is a Manager at EY in the Turnaround and Restructuring Services team, which she transitioned [...]

Alison McLaughlin

Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

John Poulsen

Special Counsel

Hamilton Locke

John Poulsen is a corporate restructuring, insolvency and commercial litigation lawyer based in Brisbane. John has [...]

Mitchell Rosario

Associate

Norton Rose Fulbright

Mitchell is a restructuring and insolvency lawyer based in Perth. Mitchell’s principle practice is insolvency and [...]

Adam Jose

Manager

KordaMentha

Neil Dempster

Senior Director

FTI Consulting

Andrew Knowles

National Segment Head – Insolvency

Macquarie Bank

As the head of Insolvency segment with Macquarie Business Banking, Andrew Knowles brings a wealth of [...]

Carla Fairweather

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Sunny Joshi

Manager, Lending Services

ANZ

Ron Lim

Manager, Group Credit Structuring

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Ron is a Manager in CBA’s Group Credit Structuring team, specialising in the large corporate lending [...]

Dani Jeyes

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Dani Jeyes has over 10 years’ experience in providing financial advisory services to listed corporates. Dani [...]

Angus Miles

Associate

Azure Capital

Tom Hogarth

Senior Manager

BDO

Tom is a Senior Manager in the Debt and Special Situations Advisory team at BDO specialising [...]

Megan Lowe

Lawyer

Gilbert + Tobin

Emmalee Pacillo

Associate

Baker & McKenzie

David Hickey

Senior Associate - Deals & Origination

Gordon Brothers

David is a member of Gordon Brothers’ Deals and Origination team in Australia, responsible for providing [...]

Alicia Salvo

Partner

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Alinta Kemeny

Partner

Ashurst

Alinta Kemeny is a partner in Ashurst’s restructuring and special situations team. Alinta has expertise in [...]

Laura Anderson

Senior Associate

McInnes Wilson Lawyers

Laura is a Senior Associate in the McInnes Wilson Lawyers Disputes & Insolvency team. Laura is [...]

James Bentley

Senior Associate

Queensland Treasury Corporation

James is a Senior Associate (Clients Division) at Queensland Treasury Corporation, working with a variety of [...]

Rebecca Wilson

Associate Director

Ernst & Young

Rebecca is an Associate Director at EY in the Strategy and Transactions practice, specifically the Turnaround [...]

Aidan Gordon

Director

Deloitte

Aidan is a Director in Deloitte’s Restructuring Services practice based in Perth. Aidan has over 12 [...]

Jessica Jedynak

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Jessica is a Managing Director in the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment of FTI Consulting. Jessica [...]

Andrew Boys

Manager

McGrathNicol

Andrew is a Assistant Manage at McGrathNicol and has 5 years’ experience in restructuring, turnaround and [...]

Cavan Reid

Bain Capital Credit

Zoe Kaesehagen

King & Wood Mallesons

Zoe is a solicitor in the Banking & Finance team at King & Wood Mallesons. She [...]

Jonathan Chee

Senior Director

FTI Consulting

Simon Chiou

Senior Manager, Group Credit Structuring

Commonwealth Bank Australia

Simon is a Senior Manager within Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Group Credit Structuring department, which covers [...]

Paul Gillies

Senior Associate

Queensland Treasury Corporation

Paul has over 10 years professional experience across the financial services, commercial banking, risk management and [...]

Ann Watson

Special Counsel

Hall & Wilcox

Ann is a Special Counsel at Hall & Wilcox, Brisbane and has particular focus on restructuring, [...]

Glenn Caligaris

Partner

McInnes Wilson Lawyers

Glenn practises in the areas of commercial litigation and insolvency. He has expertise and experience in: [...]

Daniel Schweickle

Investment Manager

Remagen Capital

Gavin Rakoczy

Partner

Baker & McKenzie

Alison Robertson

Partner

HWL Ebsworth

For more than 20 years Alison has specialised in all aspects of insolvency, reconstruction and recovery. [...]

Saskia van Loon

Senior Associate

Johnson Winter Slattery

Saskia regularly advises insolvency practitioners in their capacity as voluntary administrators, deed administrators, creditors’ trustees, receivers [...]

Jonathan Zipfinger

Transaction Counsel

OCP Asia

Jonathan is a Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills. He is an experienced finance lawyer with [...]

Peter Smith

Partner

Johnson Winter Slattery

Peter has 27 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate turnaround, reconstruction and insolvency. He has [...]

Paul Apathy

Partner

Herbert Smith Freehills

Paul has extensive experience advising creditors, companies, insolvency practitioners and investors in respect of distressed situations. [...]

Nikki Smythe

Partner

Herbert Smith Freehills

Nikki is a finance Partner in the Sydney office of Herbert Smith Freehills. Nikki is an [...]

Monty Loughlin

Senior Associate

Hamilton Locke

Monty is a Senior Associate at Hamilton Locke and is experienced in advising alternative lenders and [...]

Nicholas Edwards

Partner

Hamilton Locke

Nicholas is a partner in Hamilton Locke’s Restructuring and Insolvency practice. He specialises in advising on [...]

Zina Edwards

Partner

Hamilton Locke

Zina is a founding partner of law firm Hamilton Locke. She is a finance and restructuring [...]

Sam Dundas

Partner

King & Wood Mallesons - PERTH, WA

Sam is a restructuring and turnaround specialist, with over 15 years’ experience advising distressed companies, particularly [...]

Peter Bowden

Partner

Gilbert + Tobin

Peter is a partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s Banking + Infrastructure group. He specialises in front-end [...]

Alisha Kennedy

Principal

Talbot Sayer

Alisha heads up the Disputes team at Talbot Sayer and has broad experience in commercial litigation [...]

Scott Guthrie

Partner

Thomson Geer

Scott Guthrie draws on his more than 25 years’ of expertise to advise clients in the [...]

Nicholas Poole

Partner

Clayton Utz

Nick Poole is a partner in the national Restructuring and Insolvency Group. He specialises in the [...]

Jillian Robertson

Special Counsel

Clayton Utz

Jillian is a Senior Associate at Clayton Utz and specialises in debt restructuring and insolvency. Jillian [...]

Timothy Sackar

Partner

Clayton Utz

With a strong international practice, Timothy Sackar specialises in business restructuring, distressed investing and insolvency. He [...]

Jennifer Ball

Partner

Clayton Utz

Jennifer is currently a Director of the National Board of the Turnaround Management Association Australia (TMAA) [...]

Scott Sharry

Partner

Clayton Utz

Scott is an experienced commercial litigator and insolvency practitioner having acted for a variety of private [...]

Maria O’Brien

Partner

Baker & McKenzie

Maria is the head of the Restructuring & Insolvency (R&I) practice in Baker McKenzie’s Australian offices, [...]

Christopher Pearce

Partner

Blackwall Legal

Chris has experience across a diverse range of practice areas, encompassing listed company reconstructions, corporate structuring, [...]

Meredith Bennett

Partner

Ashurst

Meredith Bennett is a partner in Ashurst dispute resolution practice Meredith has a broad practice which [...]

Ged Kane

Associate

Ashurst

Ged Kane is a senior associate in Ashurst’s restructuring, insolvency and special situations group practice. Ged [...]

Jason Salman

Partner

Ashurst

Jason is a partner in the Perth office of Ashurst in its Restructuring and Special Situations [...]

Camilla Clemente

Partner

Ashurst

Anna Schwartz

Special Counsel

Gilbert + Tobin

Anna is a Senior Lawyer in the Gilbert +Tobin Restructuring and Insolvency Team with over ten [...]

Kevin Higgins

Executive Director

Vantage Performance

Everything I do is aimed at improving the rate of business success. I commenced my career [...]

Tim Akers

Director

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Tim has over thirteen years’ experience working on a wide range of restructuring and turnaround assignments, [...]

Rob Brauer

Partner

McGrathNicol

I am a turnaround and restructuring specialist, as well as a registered liquidator, with over 15 [...]

Selina Gerner

Partner

McGrathNicol

Selina has more than 13 years experience providing advice on financial performance and organisational improvement to [...]

Mark Holland

Partner

McGrathNicol

Mark has more than 13 years experience as a restructuring, turnaround and financial advisory specialist. He [...]

David Hardy

Partner

KPMG

David has more than 10 years’ experience in Australia and the United Kingdom partnering with clients [...]

Clint Joseph

Director

KPMG

Clint is a restructuring and turnaround specialist, with over 17 years of experience delivering corporate restructuring [...]

Gayle Dickerson

Partner

KPMG

Gayle has over 15 years of experience in both the UK and Australia in corporate turnaround, [...]

Jason Preston

Partner

McGrathNicol

Jason is the Chairman of McGrathNicol and has more than 20 years of restructuring and insolvency [...]

Matthew Caddy

Partner

McGrathNicol

Matthew is a highly regarded restructuring and business improvement specialist with 25 years of experience helping [...]

Jonathan Henry

Partner

McGrathNicol

Jonathan is a corporate advisor with over 15 years professional experience advising boards and debt/equity investors [...]

David Hacker

Executive

KPMG

David is an executive in the Restructuring Services team at KPMG. David has experience in providing [...]

Gillian Vogel

Analyst

KPMG

Chris Giddens

Partner

KPMG

Chris is a Partner in KPMG’s Deal Advisory team in Brisbane. He joined the Australian practice [...]

Sebastian Hams

Partner

KordaMentha

Sebastian has twenty years experience in commerce, business advisory, restructuring and recovery, with involvement in a [...]

Chris Martin

Partner

KordaMentha

Chris is one of Australia’s leading transformation, turnaround and corporate renewal advisors. He is a qualified [...]

Samantha Findley

Managing Director

Gordon Brothers

Samantha oversees Gordon Brothers’ lending and investment opportunities across all industries in Australia, leading transactions from [...]

Paul Hewson

Director

KordaMentha

Paul is a Director at KordaMentha and has over ten years’ experience working on formal and [...]

Andrew Reed

Executive Director

KordaMentha

Andrew has a collaborative style to build relationships to gain an understanding of the needs of [...]

Hayden Schreurs

Manager

McGrathNicol

Hayden is a Manager at McGrathNicol and has been in the CA profession for more than [...]

Matthew Chivers

Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Matthew Chivers has over 17 years of commercial, corporate advisory and turnaround experience. He has led [...]

Kate Warwick

Senior Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Kate Warwick has over 25 years experience in the areas of restructuring and turnaround, viability assessment, [...]

Joseph Hansell

Senior Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Joseph Hansell is a specialist in corporate recovery, restructuring, and turnaround management in Australia advising corporates, [...]

Stewart McCallum

Partner

Ernst & Young

Stewart’s experience spans corporate restructuring and turnaround, insolvency and forensic accounting. Stewart is a Chartered Accountant, [...]

David Kennedy

Partner

Ernst & Young

David is an EY partner and leads the Sydney Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy team. He has [...]

Anna Johnston

Associate Director

Deloitte

Anna has experience across a wide range of clients and industries from global and Australian listed [...]

Tim Norman

Partner

Deloitte

Tim is a partner of Financial advisory with nearly 20 years’ corporate reorganization and restructuring experience. [...]

Jacinta Nielsen

Partner

Deloitte

Doug Kay

McGrathNicol

Richard Hughes

Partner

Deloitte

Richard is the Queensland Restructuring Services Lead Partner. He specialises in corporate insolvency and business turnaround [...]

Marcus Derwin

Managing Director

R Cubed Group

Marcus is a highly experienced corporate executive focused on sustainable business improvement. Addressing business performance issues, [...]

Simon Vertullo

Principal

Integral Financial

I am an experienced CFO and consultant working in situations that require a senior finance executive [...]

John Nestel

Partner

Faraday Associates

John co-founded Faraday in 2018 having retired from the partnership at Herbert Smith Freehills. John had [...]

Premjit Kaur

Managing Director

Fortress Investment Group (Australia) Pty Ltd

Premjit Kaur is a Managing Director in the Sydney office of Fortress Investment Group which she [...]

Miki Cvijetic

Investment Director

Boab Capital Group

Miki is an Investment Director at Boab Capital Group/Helmsman Capital and has ten years of experience, [...]

Jeffrey Largier

Investment Director

Allegro Funds

Jeffrey has over ten years of experience in investment banking and private equity. Jeffrey commenced his [...]

Christopher Koeck

Investment Director

Allegro Funds

Chris is an Investment Manager at Allegro Funds which is a private equity fund manager investing [...]

Jane Starkins

Director - Corporate Bank

ANZ

An innovative financial services leader with hands on experience in relationship and credit management, having led [...]

Amanda Bird

Business Development Manager - QLD

ScotPac

Amanda specialises in helping businesses improve their cash flow. She has more than 20 years of [...]

Kate White

Managing Director & General Counsel, GLAS Australia

GLAS Australia

Kate joined Global Loan Agency Services Australia (GLAS Australia) on its inception in the Australia market [...]

Ben Gibson

Head of Advisory

Pickles

Ben Gibson heads up the Advisory Team for Pickles Nationally. Ben has over 25 years of [...]

Lucy Gao

Senior Vice President

Houlihan Lokey

Lucy is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring group. She focuses on complex restructuring, capital [...]

Ryan Eagle

Partner

KPMG

Ryan is a restructuring and turnaround specialist, with over two decades of experience delivering corporate restructuring [...]

Ian Sutherland

Senior Manager

KPMG

Ian is a Director with KPMG Australia based in Sydney with over 12 years’ experience in [...]

Chris Turvey

Team Leader Banking Recovery

Suncorp

Siba Diqer

Investment Manager

Litigation Capital Management

Siba is an investment manager in LCM’s Melbourne office with over 13 years’ experience in corporate, [...]

Rick Drury

Chief Asset Management Risk Officer

La Trobe financial

Rick is a globally experienced Finance Industry senior leader with proven capabilities to deliver outstanding turnaround [...]

Paul Shew

Head of Debt Advisory and Restructuring

Rothschild & Co

Paul heads the Debt Advisory and Restructuring team at Rothschild & Co in Australia. The team [...]

State & NextGen Committees

NSW

NextGen Committee Member

Joslyn Jaekel-Smith

NextGen Committee Member

Sarah McDougall

Bernadette Benedict

NextGen Committee Member

Krystal Kimeklis

Regional Committee Member

Sophie Drake

NextGen Committee Member

Sam Broughton

NextGen Committee Member

Brooke McCluskey

NextGen Committee Member

Alison McLaughlin

NextGen Committee Member

John Poulsen

NextGen Committee Member

Mitchell Rosario

NextGen Committee Member

Adam Jose

NextGen Committee Member

Neil Dempster

Regional Committee Member

Andrew Knowles

Regional Committee Member

Carla Fairweather

NextGen Committee Member

Sunny Joshi

NextGen Committee Member

Ron Lim

NextGen Committee Member

Dani Jeyes

NextGen Committee Member

Angus Miles

NextGen Committee Member

Tom Hogarth

NextGen Committee Member

Megan Lowe

NextGen Committee Member

Emmalee Pacillo

Regional Committee Member

David Hickey

Regional Committee Member

Alicia Salvo

Director

Alinta Kemeny

Vice Chair

Laura Anderson

NextGen Committee Member

James Bentley

NextGen Committee Member

Rebecca Wilson

Regional Committee Member

Aidan Gordon

NextGen Committee Member

Jessica Jedynak

Chair

Andrew Boys

NextGen Committee Member

Cavan Reid

NextGen Committee Member

Zoe Kaesehagen

NextGen Committee Member

Jonathan Chee

NextGen Committee Member

Simon Chiou

NextGen Committee Member

Paul Gillies

Chair

Ann Watson

Regional Committee Member

Glenn Caligaris

NextGen Committee Member

Daniel Schweickle

Regional Committee Member

Gavin Rakoczy

Regional Committee Member