Board of Directors

        President - Adrian Loader, Allegro Private Equity

Chairman - Ian Johnson,  Helmsman Funds Management Ltd

Vice President - Terry Van der Velde, SV Partners

 

Julie Armstrong, Herbert Geer

Cameron Belyea, Clayton Utz

Greg Charlwood, Bibby Financial Services 

Rod Cunich, Slater and Gordon

Michael Fingland, Vantage Performance 

Said Jahani, Grant Thornton 

Emanuel Poulos, Blake Dawson

Michael Sloan, Blake Dawson

Paul Weston, Pitcher Partners NSW

Greg Woszczalski, 180 Corporate

 

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TMA President   NSW Committee Member     Adrian Loader   Allegro Private Equity   Member Profile

Adrian is a joint founding principal of Allegro with Chester Moynihan and has 15 years experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring. Adrian has also acted as interim CEO and general manager to large public and private companies. Adrian has experience in a number of industries including mining, healthcare, education, manufacturing and construction.  Prior to founding Allegro, Adrian and Chester founded Quay Capital, a boutique investment advisory firm. At Quay Capital, Adrian advised on numerous private equity, M&A transactions and capital raisings and led the successful turnaround and restructure of a number of distressed businesses. Prior to working at Quay Capital, Adrian worked in Arthur Andersen’s Global Corporate Finance division for 7 years and was predominantly involved in operational and financial restructuring assignments. Adrian also worked for 4 years at the boutique advisory firm, Allen Capital where he was a Director.

Adrian is an admitted solicitor in New South Wales and a qualified Chartered Accountant.  He holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Australian National University and has also completed the Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment at FINSIA and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice at the College of Law.  Adrian is Chairman of the NSW Turnaround Management Association and a member of the INSOL lenders group. 

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TMA Chairman   Retired President 30th June 2009     Ian Johnson    Helmsman Funds Management Ltd   Member Profile

Ian Johnson is an Investment Director of Helmsman Capital, Australia’s leading turnaround capital fund. In his role at Helmsman Capital, Ian works closely with owners and management of Investee companies providing them with support and guidance in developing and implementing effective turnaround and development strategies.  Ian was retained as a consultant by Macquarie Bank in 1998 to establish and manage a distressed asset business, and was a founding director of Helmsman Capital in 2002.  He has worked in corporate and investment banking for over 25 years holding senior management roles with international and Australian trading banks.

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TMA Vice President         Terry Van der Velde   SV Partners   Member Profile

I commenced work with Arthur Young in 1985 as a graduate in the Audit Division and transferred to the newly formed Insolvency Division in 1987. In 1988 I moved to Insolvency specialist firm of Brown Burns. In 1989 I moved, after completing Professional Year and becoming a Chartered Accountant, to Hall Chadwick as a supervisor in their Business Recovery and Insolvency Division. I was made a Partner of Hall Chadwick on 1 July 1996. The bankruptcy and insolvency division of Hall Chadwick demerged and SV Partners was formed on 13 June 2003. I was one of the founding directors of SV Partners.

I have had in excess of 19 years experience in the area of Corporate and Personal Insolvencies. SV Partners has four directors, and a total size of 38 staff including the four directors. At any one time, I would be appointed solely or jointly on some 500 corporate and personal insolvencies. During my 19 years experience I have covered all areas of corporate and personal insolvencies and have been appointed as Receiver and Statutory Trustee by the Court, on many occasions.  Given the nature of insolvency work I have to deal with many complex legal matters in a vast array of industries and disciplines. I strive to make commercial decisions based on the basis of competent advice to attain the best outcome for all stakeholders. This would include whether to continue with the actions, settle the matters or discontinue the action. 

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TMA Director       Julie Armstrong   Herbert Geer   Member Profile

Julie joined the partnership of Herbert Geer in 2000. Julie has extensive experience in commercial dispute resolution and has been involved in a number of high profile cases in recent times.  Areas of expertise:

• commercial disputes
• business restructuring and recovery
• insolvency
• investigations and prosecutions

Julie has clients across a range of business sectors including accounting, banking and finance, entertainment / media, power, property, hospitality, manufacturing, retail and IT.

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TMA Director   Chairman WA Committee     Cameron Belyea   Clayton Utz   Member Profile

Cameron Belyea specialises in contested debt and capital restructuring, workouts, special situations assignments, banking and finance recoveries and litigation, commercial litigation, complex insolvencies and alternative dispute resolution. In recent times, Cameron has been involved in some of the most high-profile national restructuring and insolvency matters involving complex debt and derivative and other structured finance products.

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TMA Director    International Chair     Greg Charlwood   Bibby Financial Services   Member Profile

Mr Greg Charlwood has over 20 years experience in the Financial Services industry, including 17 years experience in the factoring industry. For most of this 17 years Greg has managed factoring businesses on behalf of Bank of Scotland, ORIX Corporation of Japan and over the past five years, Bibby.  Greg was a board member of Bank of Scotlands cashflow finance business in New Zealand and has established factoring businesses in Australia on behalf of ORIX and Bibby and in New Zealand on behalf of Bank of Scotland and ORIX. Greg has twice been Chairman of the Institute for Factors and Discounters of Australia and New Zealand and is currently Managing Director of Bibby Financial Services Australia Pty Ltd and a Director of Turnaround Management Association Australia Ltd. 

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TMA Director   NSW Committee Member   National Conference Chairman     Rod Cunich   Slater & Gordon Lawyers   Member Profile

Rod Cunich has over 25 years experience in corporate/commercial law and is an active member of the insolvency industry, currently NSW Chair of the Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee (Law Council of Australia) and Chair of the Turnaround Management Association Membership Committee. A director of numerous organisations, Rod’s clients benefit from both his extensive legal expertise and first hand commercial experience. Rod has lectured nationally and internationally on a range of commercial law issues relating to business transactions, business structures, asset protection and business succession.

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TMA Director   Communication Chair     Michael Fingland   Vantage Performance   Member Profile

Michael is the founder and Managing Director of Vantage Performance, a specialist turnaround management and performance improvement firm.  With over fifteen years experience in the corporate restructuring, corporate finance and turnaround management industries. He has assisted numerous clients and worked extensively across a number of industries including transport and logistics, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, IT, pharmaceutical, earth moving, construction, printing and professional services.  Prior to establishing Vantage Performance in June 2005, Michael was a Director with KordaMentha in Melbourne and a Senior Executive within Ernst & Young’s Corporate Turnaround practice in London.

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TMA Director     Said Jahani   Grant Thornton   Member Profile

Said has over ten years experience in corporate recovery and turnaround. Before joining Grant Thornton he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ferrier Hodgson where he developed his specialisation in turnaround and corporate restructuring.  Professional qualifications and memberships:

• MBA 
• Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia 
• Member of Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia 
• Registered Liquidator.

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TMA Director   NSW Committee Member      Emanuel Poulos   Blake Dawson   Member Profile

Emanuel practices in the area of corporate restructuring and insolvency.  His practice extends to banking and insolvency related litigation as well as security enforcement in financing transactions. Emanuel has experience acting in voluntary administrations, deeds of company arrangements, receiverships and liquidations.  He also advises on the restructure of financially distressed entities. Acting for and advising banks, financiers, corporate clients and specialist insolvency administrators, Emmanuel has worked on a number of large insolvencies, including the liquidation of HIH Insurance Limited.

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TMA Director     Michael Sloan   Blake Dawson   Member Profile

Michael's experience includes acting for liquidators, administrators and affected creditors in major insolvency administrations including Waterford Wedgwood, Bridgecorp, Bidgee, Pan Pharmaceuticals, New Tel, Enron, HIH, Huon and Pasminco.  He has also led teams on both national and international listed company restructurings in the property, telecommunications, managed investment scheme and energy and resources sectors.  Michael has assisted his clients to resolve matters quickly and cost-effectively by developing innovative solutions to enable companies to continue to trade (eg pre-packs, loan to own and introduction of distressed investors).

An international consultant to the Asian Development Bank, Michael also manages a major law reform project in the region aimed at promoting insolvency law reform in Asia. Michael has drafted a Model Agreement to Promote Company Restructuring for the 140 member Asian Bankers' Association.

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TMA Director     Paul Weston   Pitcher Partners   Member Profile

Paul has extensive experience in all facets of corporate and personal insolvency administrations over a period of more than 25 years. Paul started his career in the 1970s with the pioneer insolvency specialist firm, BO Smith & Son. He joined Horwath Sydney in 1985, where he worked exclusively in the insolvency field until joining Deloitte in February 2007 as a result of the Deloitte – Horwath Sydney merger.

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TMA Director     Greg Woszczalski   180 Corporate Pty Ltd   Member Profile

Post graduating, Mr. Woszczalski held strategic and development roles with the private and public sectors, predominantly in cash flow structures for start up, established and growth businesses. Mr. Woszczalski then moved to a position with Merrill Lynch where he specialised in institutional debt and derivatives trading, working closely with the debt capital markets team and reported to Merrill Lynch globally on debt market transactions and flows. In the last six years he has worked across many business sectors structuring and implementing cash flow solutions and consulting to directors on company restructure. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Econ), a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning, a Series 7 qualification from the United States Securities Exchange Commission and was a Registered Representative of the Sydney Futures Exchange.