Our people

Robbie Vanderzeil

Chief Executive Officer.

Robbie Vanderzeil leads Jarden’s Australian business. He is renowned for his ability to assess and price underwriting risk as well as deep investor and industry relationships. 

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Aidan Allen

Head of Investment Banking.

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

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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. 

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Sarah Rennie

Head of Equity Capital Markets.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Dane FitzGibbon

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

A foundation leader of Jarden in Australia, Dane FitzGibbon has enjoyed a diverse 20-year career in investment banking and finance including 13 years at UBS in Australia and Asia, where he was co-head of capital markets, and prior to that co-head of emerging companies and domestic financial sponsors coverage.

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Timothy Keegan

Chief Operating Officer.

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

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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. 

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Carlos Cacho

Chief Economist, 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.

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Anderson Chow

Head of Industrials, Equity Research.

Anderson has worked in the financial industry for 23 years. Most recently he was the Global Head of Industrials Research for HSBC based in Hong Kong for about 10 years, coordinating a team of 22 analysts in Asia and Europe.

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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.

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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.

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Steven Wheen

Head of Healthcare, 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.

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Catherine McCormack

Managing Director, Investment Banking.

Catherine McCormack leads Jarden Natural Resources and Utilities investment banking team in Australia. Throughout her career Cath has served as a trusted advisor to corporates and financial sponsors across a number of Natural Resources and Industrial sectors, and a broad range of corporate advisory and financing transactions.

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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.  

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Annabelle Cottee

Head of Communications and Brand.

Annabelle is responsible for Jarden’s communications, PR, marketing, brand, and community partnerships in Australia.

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Alec Gatrell

Dealer, Institutional Commodities.

Alec specialises in dealing Australian environmental products including renewable energy, carbon and electricity.

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Alexander Dalczynski

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Alex joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden, Alex was an Analyst at Luminis Partners where he worked on a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions.

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Alex Konogorova

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Alex joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden, Alex was an analyst at Deutsche Bank in the Real Estate coverage team.

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Alex Wong

Associate, Investment Banking.

Alex joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden, Alex was an Associate at Gresham Partners where he gained diverse experience advising on M&A and debt capital markets transactions.

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Andrew MacFarlane

Vice President, Equity Research.

Andy has over 10 years experience in Real Estate & Finance industries spanning equity research, private equity, and capital transactions.

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Andrew Thurin

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Andrew joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in February 2021.

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Ben Brownette

Vice President, Equity Research.

Ben has over 10 years experience in equities research, most recently at CLSA and Deutsche Bank and seven years at CBA Institutional Equities.

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Bryce Thompson

Director, Investment Banking.

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

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Charlie Shi

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Charlie joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to Jarden, Charlie was an Analyst at Allier Capital where he worked on a range of M&A transactions.

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Chris Tolj

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.

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Daniel Rosenberg

Director, Investment Banking.

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

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Elise Kennedy

Vice President, Equity Research.

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

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Elizabeth Miliatis

Vice President, Equity Research.

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

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Enrico Musso

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.

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Eric Nguyen

Associate, Investment Banking.

Eric joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021.

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Frank Sarks

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. 

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Jake Lai

Digital Analyst.

Jake has more than ten years’ experience setting up and managing trading technologies for FX and Equities desks in Hong Kong and Sydney.

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Jakob Cakarnis

Vice President, 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.

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James Beckett

Associate, Investment Banking.

James Beckett is a corporate advisory professional with experience in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He has a particular focus on M&A advisory for companies in the General Industrials, Real Estate and Telecommunications sectors. 

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James Wilson

Graduate, Equity Research.

James specialises in analysis and modelling for the Australian Transport and Contractors sector, providing quality insights that help Jarden’s clients identify opportunities and manage portfolio risk.

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James Tsaousidis

Analyst, Equity Research.

James is an analyst within the Industrials research team, focusing on Australian infrastructure and building materials.

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Joe Pardea

Supervisory Analyst & Research Business Manager, 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. 

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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.

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Kane Bourke

Director, FICC.

Kane is responsible for the management of Jarden in Australia and is involved with the implementation and execution of the group’s Australian strategy.

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Keegan Booysen

Research Analyst, Equity Research.

Keegan produces research across the retail, food & beverage industries. Keegan's role is analysing the consumer sector and identifying key thematics that define the longer term prospects within his coverage.

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Lachlan Stott

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Lachlan joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden, Lachlan was an Associate Analyst in Equity Research at CLSA where he covered banks and diversified financials.

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Lauren Hutchinson

Associate, 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. 

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Lauren Moran

Director, Institutional Equities.

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Manroop Singh

Analyst, Equity Research.

Manroop started his career at KPMG as an auditor in the financial services team, auditing a mixture of property, insurance and diversified financial clients.

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Matthew Moffatt

Director, Institutional Equities.

Matt has more than 15 years experience in equity sales and trading across Melbourne, Sydney and Hong Kong. 

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Matthew Johnston

Vice President, Equity Research.

Matthew specialises in analysing emerging ASX companies to identify attractive investment opportunities for clients.

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Mazen El Sabrouty

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Mazen joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2020. Prior to joining Jarden as an Analyst, Mazen interned at Citi in the Industrials / Sponsors and Infrastructure coverage teams. 

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Michael Eggleton

Associate, Investment Banking.

Michael joined Jarden's Investment Banking team in 2020. 

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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.

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Michaela Jamison

Head of ESG Research, Equity Research.

Michaela joins Jarden from Westpac Institutional Bank where she has spent the past 5.5 years working in roles as Portfolio Manager and Senior Credit Analyst across both the corporate sector and real estate.

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Millie Horton

Vice President, Investment Banking.

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

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Monica Huang

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Monica joined Jarden’s investment banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden, Monica interned in the investment banking team at Lazard and the deals modelling team at PwC.

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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.

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Nicholas Duke

Director, Investment Banking.

Nick has 10 years investment banking experience advising companies and financial sponsors in Australia across M&A, equity and debt.

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Nicholas Lim

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Nicholas has extensive direct real estate debt and equity investment experience gained from his previous positions at Nuveen Real Estate and Savills Investment Management.

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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.

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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. 

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Oliver Read

Associate, Investment Banking.

Oliver joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. He has worked across a range of transaction types and sectors, with a particular focus on Technology and Real Estate.

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Peter Sidebottom

Vice President, Investment Banking.

Peter joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021, covering the real estate sector.

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Rachel Wang

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Rachel joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2020.  

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Roland Huang

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Roland joined Jarden in 2021. Prior to Jarden, Roland worked at Macquarie as an Equity Research Intern, covering Gaming & Transport.

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Sebastian Clemens

Analyst, Equity Research.

Seb specialises in equity research in the healthcare sector, with a focus on in-depth financial modelling and valuation and undertaking company and industry research.  

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Stuart Archibald

Director, Institutional Equities.

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

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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.

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Suzie Cai

Analyst, Investment Banking.

Suzie joined Jarden's Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden Suzie was an Analyst at Macquarie Capital in the Real Estate coverage team where she advised on a variety of M&A and capital market transactions.  

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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.  

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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.

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Vicky Liang

Associate, Investment Banking.

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

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Wassim Kisirwani

Director, Equity Research.

Wassim is responsible for researching listed companies on the NZX and ASX, and helping clients identify attractive investment opportunities.

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Wilson Wong

Associate, Equity Research.

Wilson produces equity research to help clients make informed investment decisions. He specialises in analysing small-cap ASX and NZX listed companies with a focus on the technology sector. 

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Yan Hui Tan

Vice President, 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.

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Xavier Ventris

Associate, Investment Banking.

Xavier joined Jarden’s Investment Banking team in 2021. Prior to joining Jarden, Xavier was an Associate at MUFG where he worked on a range of Infrastructure and Renewable Energy transactions.

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