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Aidan Allen

Aidan Allen

Co-CEO, Jarden Investment Banking.

Aidan Allen joined Jarden as a foundation member of our Australian business and as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking Australia.

Sarah Rennie

Sarah Rennie

Co-CEO, Jarden Investment Banking.

Sarah Rennie is a foundation leader of Jarden in Australia and one of Australia’s most senior capital markets bankers, having led some of the country’s most significant transactions during a career spanning more than 20 years.

Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert

Head of Australian Research.

Ben leads Jarden’s Australian research team and consumer sector coverage, developing independent and thought provoking insights to inform investor strategy.

John Spencer

John Spencer

Head of Institutional Equities.

John Spencer joined Jarden as a foundation leader in Australia after 22 years in markets across equity research, sales, equity capital markets and investment banking. He was most recently a Managing Director at UBS Australia heading ECM syndicate for ANZ where he syndicated more than 150 transactions representing $55bn over the last 5 years.

Suzanne Storrie

Suzanne Storrie

Advisory Board.

Suzanne is a non-executive director, executive coach and mentor. She serves on the Jarden Australia Advisory Board, the Board of Surf Life Saving Australia and is chair of Surf Sports Australia and a member of the Finance, Audit and Compliance Committee and Information, Communications and Technology governance group.

SooJin Yoon

SooJin Yoon

Head of Legal & Compliance and General Counsel.

SooJin Yoon manages Jarden's Australian Legal and Compliance functions and is its General Counsel in Australia. SooJin is a skilled investment banking lawyer with particular expertise in capital raisings and corporate advisory, regulatory management, risk management and compliance.

Timothy Keegan

Timothy Keegan

Managing Director, COO.

Tim has over 25 years of leadership experience in financial services across stockbroking, wealth and asset management with a focus on building new businesses.

Adam Lennen

Adam Lennen

Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking Melbourne.

Adam Lennen leads the Investment Banking team in Melbourne for Jarden Australia. In a career spanning more than 25 years, Adam has extensive and diverse experience covering equity capital markets and merger and acquisition transactions.

Bryce Thompson

Bryce Thompson

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Bryce Thompson joined Jarden as Head of our Technology Investment Banking team after a 16 year career in Australian investment banking.

Chris Tolj

Chris Tolj

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Chris joined Jarden from Credit Suisse, where he was a director on the equity sales team for five years, building deep relationships with a number of key institutional clients and a reputation as a thought leader in the market.

Ed Wilson

Ed Wilson

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Ed is part of the Equity Sales team at Jarden, covering both domestic and offshore investors.

Enrico Musso

Enrico Musso

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Enrico has more than 11 years’ experience in the capital markets. He has expertise in international and domestic corporate bonds, acquisition financing, corporate hybrids, regulatory capital structuring for banks and insurance companies, and risk hedging programmes.

Frank Sarks

Frank Sarks

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Frank has over 20 years financial markets experience, with the past 18 years at Macquarie Equities on the institutional equities desk where he was instrumental in building out the domestic institutional coverage as a sales trader.

Ian Arnold

Ian Arnold

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Ian Arnold joined Jarden in August 2022 to help establish Jarden’s Melbourne Investment banking presence. Ian joins Jarden after over 30 years with Credit Suisse in markets, across equity trading, sales, equity capital markets and investment banking.

Julien Dyon

Julien Dyon

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Julien Dyon is Head of Financial Services in Corporate Advisory. Over the past 15 years, Julien has accumulated a broad range of M&A and financing experience having worked and advised on more than 50 transactions representing over $100bn in total transaction volumes. 

Kieren Chidgey

Kieren Chidgey

Head of Financials, Equity Research.

Kieren is Head of Financials Research at Jarden in Australia. He has more than 15 years’ equity research experience covering the Australian Insurance and Diversified Financial sectors and has been consistently recognised as a top-rated analyst by leading institutional surveys.

Lou Pirenc

Lou Pirenc

Head of Property and REITs, Equity Research.

Lou has enjoyed a 20-year career in Research and Finance across 3 continents including 18 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently Global Head of Data for the global Research department, based in New York. Prior to this, he was Head of Research for Australia as well as leading coverage for the REITs sector in Sydney.

Mitchell Schauer

Mitchell Schauer

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Mitchell Schauer heads Jarden’s real estate investment banking team in Australia. He has spent over 13 years covering the Australian real estate sector, including 11 years at UBS.

Rohan Gallagher

Rohan Gallagher

Managing Director, Equity Research.

As Managing Director, Rohan leads Jarden’s Australian industrial coverage, including Building Materials, Gaming, Steel and Infrastructure sectors. Rohan is in a unique position to leverage both his corporate and sell-side experience in providing high-quality independent and thought-provoking insights.

Stephen Pickles

Stephen Pickles

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Stephen Pickles is a Managing Director in the Melbourne Investment Banking Team. With over 20 Years of public and private M&A, ECM and DCM experience, Stephen has worked across a wide range of sectors including Steel, Paper and Packaging, Chemicals, Building Products, Transport & Infrastructure, Consumer, Retail, Healthcare and Financial Services. 

Stuart Archibald

Stuart Archibald

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Stuart Archibald joined Jarden in 2020 with over 20 years experience in investment banking and financial markets.

Steve Wheen

Steve Wheen

Managing Director, Equity Research.

Steve leads Jarden's healthcare team in Australia. Steve commenced his career in financial services at Arthur Anderson, and after completing his Professional Year with the Institute of Chartered Accountants he relocated to London where he worked in fixed income and equities at Salomon Brothers.

Alex Farmer

Alex Farmer

Director, Investment Banking.

Alex Farmer joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden, Alex worked at J.P. Morgan, where he spent 6 years advising clients on M&A and capital advisory assignments across a diverse range of sectors including healthcare, industrials and transport & logistics.

Ben Lyons

Ben Lyons

Director, Equity Research.

Based in Jarden’s Perth office, Ben Lyons brings more than 20 years' experience covering the Australian mining sector, from both the buy and sell sides.

Carlos Cacho

Carlos Cacho

Director, Equity Research.

Carlos Cacho is Chief Economist for Jarden in Australia. Prior to joining Jarden, Carlos spent three years as Australian Economist at UBS Australia, and previously five years at Colonial First State Global Asset Management.

Elise Kennedy

Elise Kennedy

Director, Equity Research.

Elise Kennedy leads the Australian Research team covering Technology and Internet.

Daniel Rosenberg

Daniel Rosenberg

Director, Investment Banking.

Daniel Rosenberg joined Jarden as a Director in the Financial Institutions team in the Investment Banking division.

Jackson Ross

Jackson Ross

Director, Investment Banking.

Prior to joining Jarden, Jackson spent over 13 years at Transurban as part of their senior leadership team. Prior to Transurban, Jackson worked at Booz & Company across infrastructure M&A and business transformation programs.

Jakob Cakarnis

Jakob Cakarnis

Director, Equity Research.

Jakob Cakarnis has 10 years experience in the Finance Industry working initially as a Graduate within Macquarie Bank and as an Equity Research Analyst with Citi.

James McDougall

James McDougall

Director, Institutional Equities.

James joined Jarden in 2021 and has over 14 years of experience in Financial markets, specialising in Equities Facilitation and Principal Trading.

Joe Pardea

Joe Pardea

Director, Equity Research.

Joe is a Supervisory Analyst at Jarden Australia. He has more than 20 years’ experience across equity research, including in Supervisory Analyst, Business Manager and stock coverage roles.

Jon Bishop

Jon Bishop

Director, Equity Research.

Covering the metals & mining sectors at Jarden, Jon works across circa $500 million to +$20 billion market cap companies across the industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Western Australia majoring in Geology and a post-graduate honours degree in Petroleum Geology.

Matthew Chan

Matthew Chan

Director, Investment Banking.

Matthew joined Jarden’s investment banking team in 2021.

Michaela Jamison

Michaela Jamison

Head of ESG Research, Equity Research.

Michaela Jamison is Head of ESG research at Jarden where she is responsible for producing ESG research and insights for institutional clients.

Michael Peters

Michael Peters

Head of Institutional Commodities.

Michael formulates and implements Jarden’s Australian commodities strategy. He oversees the clearing and execution of listed products and OTC solutions in the Australian commodity markets, with a particular focus on energy, environmental and agricultural markets.

Millie Horton

Millie Horton

Director, Investment Banking.

Millie has had a wide range of transaction experience across capital markets and M&A.

Nathan Taylor

Nathan Taylor

Director, Investment Banking.

Nathan has more than 15 years’ experience within Australia’s capital markets. He has been involved in a diverse range of equity and debt capital market offerings for both large and small cap issuers.

Nicholas McGeoch

Nicholas McGeoch

Director, Institutional Equities.

Nick joined Jarden from JP Morgan where he spent more than 11 years working across a number of business lines.

Nihat Engel

Nihat Engel

Director, Investment Banking.

Nihat has advised middle-market and publicly listed clients throughout Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan for over a decade, working on a broad range of strategic reviews, capital raisings and mergers and acquisitions.

Nik Burns

Nik Burns

Director, Equity Research.

Nik brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his role as Head of Energy, including 10 years as a sell side research analyst and 18 years in the Australian upstream oil and gas sector.

Nizar Torlakovic

Nizar Torlakovic

Head of Data Strategy, Equity Research.

Nizar joins Jarden with a long career in Research and Data, including 15 years of equities research experience in the Australian market.

Reeny Paraskeva

Reeny Paraskeva

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Reeny has joined Jarden from UBS, where she was previously a Managing Director based in New York. She started her investment banking career in Australia in 2005 with UBS and Goldman Sachs.

Renae Ridley

Renae Ridley

Director, Head Corporate Access Australia.

Renae manages the corporate access platform in Australia, with more than a decade of financial experience at investment banks including UBS, Macquarie (Hong Kong and London), RBS and Citi.

Samantha Molina

Samantha Molina

Director, Institutional Equities.

Samantha brings over 25 years sales trading experience covering domestic and international investors.

Tara Foord

Tara Foord

Director, Institutional Equities .

Tara joined Jarden from UBS where she spent 9 years across their Sydney and Hong Kong offices, primarily in equities electronic trading. 

Tim Elliott

Tim Elliott

Director, Institutional Equities.

Tim joins Jarden from Macquarie Group’s institutional trading desk and brings over 15 years of equities trading experience across execution, facilitation and inventory management.

Yan Hui Tan

Yan Hui Tan

Director, Investment Banking.

Yan Hui advises on a broad range of corporate advisory transactions, including both buy and sell side roles for both public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as debt and equity raisings.

Christina Pedersen

Christina Pedersen

Vice President, Investment Banking.

Christina brings a wide range of transaction experience across M&A and capital markets with particular focus in the financial services sector.

David Fidge

David Fidge

Vice President, Investment Banking.

David has 9 years investment banking experience advising both public and private companies on a broad range of corporate advisory assignments, including both buy and sell side roles.

Devon Sundelowitz

Devon Sundelowitz

Vice President, Investment Banking.

Devon brings a wide range of transaction experience across M&A and capital markets.

Elizabeth Miliatis

Elizabeth Miliatis

Vice President, Equity Research.

Elizabeth provides industry-leading and thought provoking equity research and insights.

Freddie Cator

Freddie Cator

Vice President, Institutional Equities.

Freddie joined the Jarden equity sales team in November 2021.

James Beckett

James Beckett

Vice President, Investment Banking.

James Beckett is a corporate advisory professional with experience in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He has experience in both buy and sell side roles for both public and private mergers and acquisitions in the General Industrials, Real Estate, and Infrastructure spaces, as well as debt and equity raisings.

Jeff Cai

Jeff Cai

Vice President, Equity Research.

Jeff has over 10 years experience in equity and credit research, mainly focusing on Banks and Diversified Financials.

Joseph Hamer

Joseph Hamer

Dealer, Institutional Commodities.

Joseph brings a strong knowledge of Australian financial markets and solid relationship management skills to his role. He enjoys working in the dynamic Australian energy and carbon markets, expanding his knowledge of futures and options and being part of a great team.

Lauren Hutchinson

Lauren Hutchinson

Vice President, Investment Banking.

Prior to joining Jarden, Lauren was an Associate in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. Lauren gained diverse experience as part of the Sponsor M&A and equity capital markets teams in New York and Sydney, respectively.

Michael Konya

Michael Konya

Dealer, Institutional Commodities.

Michael specialises in the Australian energy markets, offering market analysis and strategic advice to help clients hedge their energy portfolios. He brings a wealth of experience to his role, from the spot market and the ASX to the environmental markets.

Vicky Liang

Vicky Liang

Vice President, Investment Banking.

Vicky has more than seven years’ experience in the financial services industry, working across debt and M&A.