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Alan Hayes – Executive Chairman, Alan Hayes has broad experience in pastoral ownership, acquisitions and management, and was responsible for identifying, selecting, aggregating and operating top quality portfolios of properties for Prudential/Colonial/Commonwealth Bank fund from 1989-2001, and for the Macquarie Pastoral Fund from 2006-2009.
With the implementation of the Macquarie Pastoral Fund, Alan Hayes accepted appointment as Managing Director of Macquarie Pastoral Services Limited, the managing entity, and as Chief Executive Officer of Paraway Pastoral Company Limited, the operating company of the Macquarie Pastoral Fund. In 2008, as part of the succession plan of the Macquarie Pastoral Fund, Alan Hayes resigned as CEO of Paraway and accepted the role of Head of Property Strategy-Macquarie Pastoral Fund. Following the successful acquisition and stocking of the properties that comprised the diversified portfolio of the Macquarie Pastoral Group as at August 2009, Alan retired from Macquarie and has subsequently established Australian Pastoral Funds Management. |
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Robert Millner - Director Robert Millner joined the Board of Washington H Soul Pattinson and Company Limited ("WHSP"), in 1984. In 1997 he was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of WHSP and as Chairman in 1998. He is also Chairman of Brickworks Limited, BKI Investment Company Limited; Milton Corporation Limited; New Hope Corporation Limited; Souls Private Equities Limited and a Director of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (API) and TPG Telecom Limited. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, New South Wales, Australia. Robert also has pastoral interests in New South Wale |
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Janet Smith – Director After 20 years in the financial services industry, Janet Smith brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her role as Director. With executive roles both in Australia and overseas at companies such as Prudential, Colonial, Investec and Zurich, Janet has been responsible for the creation and implementation of business development and platform strategies aimed at increasing market reach and revenues, whilst managing costs. Janet has extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of change management, strategic planning, business restructuring, business acquisition and integration. She played a critical role in restructuring Zurich's Wealth Management business and repositioned and strengthened their distribution through the development of key account strategies in each product and market segment. She has held several Directorships, has been a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has a broad network of contacts within Australia and overseas. |
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Stuart Black – Director Stuart Black is a Chartered Accountant and has specialised in strategic planning, structuring and operational aspects of large-scale primary producers for over 30 years. During this time he has conducted due diligence on a number of corporate pastoral acquisitions, and is a specialist in taxation as it applies to primary producers. External appointments include: Director of Coffey International Limited & Chairman of its Audit Committee; Inaugural Chair and Director of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board; Member of the International Federation of Accounting Small and Medium Practices Committee; Member of the International Ethical Standards Board Taskforce on the Code of Conduct; Chairman of the Chartered Accountants Benevolent Fund; Non Executive Director of The Country Education Foundation of Australia Ltd and a Past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Stuart is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia and the Tax Institute of Australia. |
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Alan Hayes Executive Chairman Alan Hayes has broad experience in pastoral ownership, acquisitions and management, and was responsible for identifying, selecting, aggregating and operating top quality portfolios of properties for the Prudential/Colonial/Commonwealth Bank pastoral fund from 1989-2001, and for the Macquarie Pastoral Fund from 2006-2009. With the implementation of the Macquarie Pastoral Fund, Alan Hayes accepted appointment as Managing Director of Macquarie Pastoral Services Limited, the managing entity, and as Chief Executive Officer of Paraway Pastoral Company Limited, the operating company of the Macquarie Pastoral Fund. In 2008, as part of the succession plan of the Macquarie Pastoral Fund, Alan Hayes resigned as CEO of Paraway and accepted the role of Head of Property Strategy-Macquarie Pastoral Fund. Following the successful acquisition and stocking of the properties that comprised the diversified portfolio of the Macquarie Pastoral Group as at August 2009, Alan retired from Macquarie and has subsequently established Australian Pastoral Funds Management. 1989 – 2001 Prudential/Colonial 2001 – 2006 Pastoral Assets Management (own company) 2006 - 2009 Macquarie |
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Campbell Hayes Campbell Hayes grew up on pastoral and agricultural properties in outback New South Wales and has spent the last 20 years working across diverse regions of Queensland, the Northern Territory and New South Wales. Campbell brings strong leadership skills, with broad practical and large scale property operational knowledge and experience, and widespread industry contacts within the Australian pastoral and agricultural sectors. In 1993 and 1994 Campbell worked in the Gulf country of north Queensland, working with large numbers of cattle that were being bred, grown and fattened for both the export slaughter and live export cattle markets in northern Australia. During 1995 and 1996 Campbell worked across the Northern Territory and gained further experience in cattle production and assisted in taking delivery of Helen Springs, Banka Banka and Brunchilly stations carrying around 50,000 cattle, for the Stanbroke Pastoral Company. In 1996 Campbell joined Pastoral Assets Management P/L as Pastoral Inspector across properties managed for clients, and was responsible for the formulation of station budgets, capital expenditure and property development planning with station managers, and for consolidating these budgets for both the Prudential Pastoral Company and Colonial Agricultural Company. From 1997/1998 onwards, Campbell was involved with the budgeting and ongoing operational management of the Minnamurra Pastoral group of properties which are a group of highly focused and profitable cattle and farming properties producing Angus and Hereford cattle and their crosses for the higher end of the domestic cattle market in Australia. During 2000 Campbell was employed by Harris Transport of Moree, as the General Manager of the transport business, Campbell later secured the sale of the general freight side of this business and moved on to manage the livestock operations for Cleveland Agriculture which is one New South Wales largest wheat and cotton growers with significant interests in the livestock industry stretching from north west Western Australia to northern New South Wales. In 2002 Campbell returned to Minnamurra Pastoral Group as the assistant general manager and was responsible for the full management and development of the newly acquired property, Woolandra, at Dunedoo. Campbell now leases and operates Woolandra as a grazing and farming enterprise in conjunction with his own livestock and grain haulage and contract farming businesses. |
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Penny Hayes
Penny was born and raised on an extensive rural property in western New South Wales. She attended Sydney University graduating with a Bachelor of Arts after leaving boarding school in Sydney and has had a lifelong association with the pastoral industry in Australia. In October 2010, Penny was contracted to APFM as the Chief Financial Officer and has been involved at all levels in the establishment, marketing, governance and administration of APFM. Penny brings to APFM her experience in the key areas of:
From 1996 to1999 Penny was the Administration Manager of Pastoral Assets Management (owned by Alan Hayes), which specialised in providing pastoral operations and pastoral property management services to balanced fund managers, superannuation funds, corporate investors and high net worth individuals who wished to invest in the pastoral sector in Australia. Key functions of the role were preparation of the acquisition proposals and budgets for the Colonial group of properties; preparation and production of the Information Memorandum for Prudential Pastoral Fund (later the Colonial Agricultural Fund); organization and facilitation of the Prudential Pastoral Fund launch; provision of executive support to key staff and liaison with various stakeholders including external accountants, auditors, Boards of Directors, lawyers, Corporations and high net worth individuals. Penny maintained a working relationship with Pastoral Assets Management through to October 2010, assisting in the development and coordination of proposals, acquisition assessments and relationship management with a number of pastoral corporates and high net worth individuals to whom the company provided services. |
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Nadine Moore
SS&C have nominated Nadine Moore, SS&C Technologies Australia as the key representative for APFM in Australia. Nadine heads up new business for the Australian operation of SS&C. Nadine joined Financial Models (now SS&C Technologies) in 1996 in the London office and has held a variety of roles with the company throughout Australia, USA, Canada and Europe. Nadine’s experience includes a variety of business development and marketing roles as well as project management & consulting. Nadine will participate as a part of the Executive Management Committee of APFM. SS&C Technologies: The company’s TNR SolutionTM provides a technologically-advanced software foundation for its rapidly growing fund administration business. SS&C’s TNR SolutionTM supports over 300 clients with over 1,000 funds and $400 billion in committed capital worldwide. TNR’s shared platform combines industry leading administration services with real time database access for investors, providing total transparency for investors in APF, as well as its global clients. Led by Nadine, SS&C will manage and provide fund accounting, administrative and investor services to client’s of APFM. |
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Alister McClymont. Alister is one of Australia's leading large scale beef producers, carrying in excess of 50,000 cattle on a chain of integrated beef cattle breeding, growing and fattening properties in north Queensland. These properties stretch from "Wernadinga" on the Leichardt River near Burketown in the upper gulf country of north Queensland down to "Etta Plains" north of Cloncurry, and include "Burleigh Station", "Saxby Downs", and several properties on the Flinders River country north and east of Richmond in north Queensland. Alister and Jo-anne, his wife, have aggregated these renowned properties over 25 years of sound management and judicious expansion. Alister is widely respected for his commercial acumen, innovative and effective management techniques, cattle breeding and assessment skills, and his ability to trade cattle through a range of market outlets. |
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Kerry Herron, AM. Founder of Herron Todd White Australia, Kerry has valued most types of property over a valuation career spanning 47 years, ranging from city offices, industrial, retail, residential projects to all types of rural properties up to 2,000,000 hectares. Kerry began his career as a stockman/station hand on a cattle property in Central Queensland, followed by five years with the Queensland Lands Department. He opened his first office under his house in Rockhampton in 1968, becoming the first full time, independent private valuer in Queensland outside Brisbane. His growing practice became Herron Todd Valuers in 1974 and Herron Todd White in 1987. By his retirement from HTW in 2010, Herron Todd White Australia had become Australia's largest valuation practice, with 60 offices and almost 700 employees. |
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Max Graham. Max has spent his career on the land and currently runs a diversified commercial farming enterprise comprising cattle, sheep and crops across an aggregated group of 7 properties at Harden in NSW. Max has been a supplier of lamb and beef to Coles for 27 years and major lamb supplier to Woolworths; his Diamond G brand stud herd won the Suncorp CAAB (Certified Australian Angus Beef) award in 2008 for Best Overall Marbelling. His properties also breed and purchase Merino ewes to produce wool and fat lambs. Max's properties are all dry land farming, cropping around 4000 acres of a variety of grains. Lucerne and pasture hay are baled and stored for feeding, and most crops are feed varieties to double for grazing and grain. Harvested grain is sold or used in the feedlot. |
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John Fowler. John is the principal of a large scale family farming operation in southern NSW, specialising in prime lamb production targeting both the domestic and export markets. He is highly regarded in the industry and his stock are keenly sought by processors. In 2010 a consignment of his lambs was the first to break through the $200 barrier, creating a national saleyard record, and in the following weeks his lambs sold to new record highs on two more occasions. Having been involved in the livestock industry for most of his life John knows the importance of top genetics, good pastures and sound management. |
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Ross Baldwin. Ross is a leading producer and advisor to the sheep and wool industry, and a widely respected breeder of high fertility stud and commercial merinos. He is Principal of Bundilla Merinos, based at Young and Orange, NSW, focusing on genetic development and management systems to improve profitability and long term sustainability in the sheep industry. The Bundilla Stud has achieved 19.7u average micron count, an average wool cut of 7.3kg and a 10 year average weaning rate of 143% all of which bear testament to the productivity of the stud and its management. Ross is a graduate of Wagga Agricultural College with a background of 14 years in corporate agriculture for Scottish Australian and Naroo Pastoral Companies, managing properties in NSW, Tasmania, and WA. Ross advises corporate and family farming operations across NSW and Victoria on sheep breeding and management, and has served on advisory panels for Meat & Livestock Australia ("MLA") and and Australian Wool Innovation ("AWI"). |
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