Our People
David Grey Executive Director
Mr Grey is executive director of Millinium Capital Managers Limited and Head of Legal to the Millinium group of companies Mr Grey has over 27 years experience in senior management and legal roles. Mr Grey has worked in private practice and for various corporations in financial services, including National Benefits Consulting, AM Corporation Limited, AMP Superannuation Limited, Perpetual Trustees Australia Limited and Australian Wealth Management Limited (which includes Bridges Financial Services Pty Limited (“AWM”)(“now part of IOOF Group”). He was formerly General Counsel/Company Secretary for a number of AWM subsidiaries and undertook AWM’s listing on the ASX in 2005, now an ASX 200 company.
Mark Phillips Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer
Mr Phillips has a strong background in Funds Management and Investment Banking through his 23 years in the industry and is highly regarded in his field. He has a proven track record in senior management where as Group Manager of Asset Management and General Manager of Structured Finance and Lending of a former ASX 200 company he was managing just over $1.1 billion of funds across the group. Under his responsibility he managed all of the trusts and the company’s fixed interest and mortgage assets, as well as held responsibility for the full recoveries of all monies lent.
Previous to this role, Mark held various senior management positions with National Australia Financial Management, the funds management arm of the National Australia Bank. He was involved in and headed several M&A engagements and Capital Market transactions, in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Tom Wallace Executive Director and Head of Property and Private Equity
Mr Wallace was formerly a partner in a Sydney commercial law firm and acted for several of Australia’s major financial institutions and telecommunication companies. He is a solicitor of the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and Queensland and the High Court of Australia. He has extensive experience in commercial litigation, property, commercial, banking and finance and intellectual property work where he acted for and on behalf of banks and finance companies for enforcement of loans and the recovery of assets and securities and restructuring, and building and construction litigation.
He also has experience in managing financial services and funds management companies, due diligence processes and corporate acquisitions and divestments in the listed and unlisted company sector. He has also been involved in corporate capital raising activities, including originating, structuring, executing and sourcing for equity, equity instruments and debt instruments in Australia and overseas.
Paul Bray Director
Mr Bray was educated in the UK and Australia and has more than 25 years experience in funds management in sales, compliance and portfolio construction. Paul was the CEO and a Director of a major international fund manager, ABN AMRO Asset Management and covered all asset classes. Of recent years, Paul has owned his own funds management group which specialized in Australian Equities and also consults to other groups in the property management arena.
Neill College Head of Equities
Mr Colledge has extensive expertise in securities with more than thirty years of using quantitative and qualitative methods to assess companies and industries, in both stockbroking and funds management. As a fund manager and analyst for Queensland Investment Corporation ("QIC") Neill has covered most sectors of the Australian share market. He joined QIC in 1990 as its seventh employee, becoming Head of Research for Australian equities in 1992. In this role he introduced a rigorous stock selection process as well as quantitative portfolio management methods. In addition to managing a successful A-REIT Fund for QIC, he also managed an Australian equities fund of up to $11 billion, which outperformed the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 accumulation index over eight years and in seven out of eight years individually.
Neill brings to our team seventeen years of experience in investment decision-making, portfolio construction, performance measurement, transaction execution and research management for QIC in addition to his twelve years of experience in institutional stockbroking as a research analyst, including participation in equity capital markets and M&A.
In 2004 Neill was requested by the Board of QIC to take over the role of CEO of their Biocapital funds, where he successfully increased the number of investments from two in November 2004 to seventeen by March 2007, taking the $100m portfolio to a fully invested position.
Neill has extensive theoretical and practical knowledge in assessing and managing credit, investment, market and operational risks.
John Grainger Head of Distribution
John is sales management professional with over 25 years experience in the financial services industry, where he has held senior roles within the Funds Management, Risk, Banking, Superannuation and Agribusiness sectors.
Most recently John held the position of Head of Distribution for Amici Funds Management, a boutique manager in the unlisted property funds sector. During his long and successful career John has held senior roles with organisations such as ING, HSBC Funds Management and ANZ Funds Management. John has developed exceptionally strong and long lasting relationships with Fund Managers, Asset Consultants, Dealer Groups, Researchers, Advisers and Referring Accountants, both locally and nationally. He has a demonstrable record of success in growing sales through introduction and development new accounts, while also maintaining strong relationships and increasing business from existing supporters.
John’s career has also been dedicated to building, motivating, managing and mentoring teams. He has done this with outstanding success at both a state and national level.
John Tsekas Compliance Committee member
Mr Tsekas is an independent Compliance Committee member appointed to Millinium Capital Managers Limited. John has over 15 years’ experience in compliance and risk services in the financial services industry, working with National Australia Bank, ANZ and Tribeca Learning. John has also worked as a consultant and within a compliance partnership, charged with the responsibility of auditing and undertaking face-to-face reviews with life agents and licensed dealers in securities.
John holds a Bachelor of Science, Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment, Graduate Diploma of Financial Planning, Master of Financial Services Law and Graduate Certificate in Chartered Accounting Foundations and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. John is a task force member and technical writer for Kaplan Professional on the FIN114 Risk Management for Finance Sector Enterprises subject, and a facilitator for TAFE NSW lecturing on Compliance and Professional Standards.
Sean Preece Compliance Committee member
Mr Preece is CEO of Capital 360 and Halo Group and has 20 years involvement in the funds management industry. Mr Preece joined the Halo Group from Ord Minnett Asset Management, where he was the Head of Distribution. Prior to that, Mr Preece was General Manager of Distribution Services for Challenger Financial Services Group. Mr Preece has worked closely with platforms, research houses and key dealer group relationships in all his previous roles. Mr Preece is based in Sydney.
Armand Aguillon Investor Services Manager
Armand is the Investor Services Manager for the Millinium group. Armand provides support and maintains client relationships for all of Milliniums’ investors. He has over 14 years experience in customer service ranging from originating loans, mortgages and funds management in financial services. Armand is RG 146 accredited through FINSIA and has completed a Certificate of Business through the University of Southern Queensland. Armand is also currently in the final stages of completing a Bachelor of International Business through Griffith University.
Multi-Strategy Investment Fund Committee
Private Equity Fund