Board of Directors
Rod McGeoch AM - Chairman (Non Executive)
Rod is the immediate past Chairman Emeritus of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, a leading Australian law firm and has significant Board and advisory experience. His current board positions include Chairman of Sky City Entertainment Group, Director of Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited and Director of Ramsay Healthcare Limited.
Rod was previously a member of the International Advisory board of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, one of the world's leading financial institutions. Rod was also the Chief Executive Officer of Sydney's successful Olympic 2000 bid and a Director of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
Rod was awarded membership of the Order of Australia for services to Law and the Community in 1990.
Patrick Handley - Non Executive Director
Pat is currently Chairman of Pacific Brands Ltd and has overseen the turnaround of the company since 2001 after it was purchased from Pacific Dunlop in a Management Buyout led by the Private Equity fund managers Catalyst and CVC Asia Pacific. Pat has over 30 years international financial services experience and is also currently a strategic adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers and Nomura Securities.
Pat was previously an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Westpac Banking Corporation, where during his tenure he established the first Quadrant Private Equity fund in 1994. Pat has also been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of County Savings Bank (USA), Chief Financial Officer of BancOne Corporation (USA) and a Director of Suncorp Metway Limited, AMP Limited and HHG. Pat holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Mathematics from Indiana University and an MBA from Ohio State University.
Paul Scully - Non Executive Director
Paul is currently an independent consultant and has extensive experience in many aspects of institutional investment management, covering business and asset management, M&A and Private Equity. His current board positions include SAS Trustee Corporation, a NSW Government employee superannuation fund and ING Management Pty Ltd, the responsible entity for the ING Office fund & ING Industrial fund.
Paul is the former CEO and Managing Director of ING Investment Management (INGIM) Asia Pacific and a member of INGIM's Global Management Board. Paul was responsible for establishing INGIM's Private Equity multi manager investment program in 1997 and was part of the team that subsequently built that business to approximately $300m of funds under management. During his tenure, INGIM invested in many Private Equity funds managed by close to 20 Australian Private Equity fund managers.
Paul is an actuary by training and has also written extensively on finance related topics.
Michael Tobin - Managing Director
Michael is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Company's Investment Strategy. Michael has over 15 years experience in Private Equity management, advisory and investment as well as in management operations.
Michael was formerly Head of Development Capital and Private Equity at St George Bank where he was responsible for the management and ultimate sale of the bank's Commitments and investments in $140m worth of St George branded Private Equity funds. Michael also established the bank's Private Equity advisory business which structured and raised Private Equity for corporate customers of the bank. Michael has arranged and advised on direct Private Equity investments into more than 30 separate private companies in Australia across a range of industry sectors.
Michael holds a BE from the UNSW and he has received an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He also holds a Diploma of Financial Services from the Australian Financial Markets Association.
Nick Jorss - Executive Director
Nick is responsible for overseeing the Company’s due diligence of underlying fund and co-investment opportunities and has more than 15 years experience in the provision of corporate and financial advisory services and project management.
Prior to Vantage, while a Director at Pacific Road Corporate Finance, Nick led advisory mandates with private equity, as well as corporate and government clients across a range of sectors, including engineering and mining services, power and infrastructure, land transport and retail. In that role Nick provided financial, commercial and strategic advice on transactions worth over $6bn in total, including advice on acquisitions, trade sales, privatisations, capital raising and project financing.
Nick holds a BE (Hons) from the University of Queensland and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He also holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from FINSIA.