Simon Burge
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Master of Business – Accounting/Finance, UTS
Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting/Finance, UNSW
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Simon has been continuously involved in the Australian finance industry since 1989, providing him with 35+ years of industry knowledge and experience. His roles have included being an AFSL license holder, sole Responsible Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Executive Director of a boutique fund management business he founded in 2004 with boutique incubator, Ascalon (Westpac owned).
Simon has been engaged to establish the client, compliance and regulatory frameworks necessary to operationalise Australis’s AFSL. The mandate is to drive Australis’s transformation into a wholesale boutique incubation business, dedicated to empowering investment professionals with an umbrella service offering that includes renting the AFSL to Corporate Authorised Representatives (CAR’s) and assisting them to launch their own wholesale investment products.
He is also an Executive Responsible Manager under Australis’s AFS licence and Chair of the Investment Committee, which is charged with making decisions on any complex and/or material equity investment opportunities to be made on behalf of the business.
Jackson Reynolds
Business Analyst
Bachelor of Business/Politics, Philosophy & Economics, ANU
Jackson has been involved in the Australian finance industry since 2021, working part-time through university as a research analyst at a Sydney based stockbroking firm, Veritas Securities Ltd. His areas of expertise have been preparing both individual stock and market sector research papers, mainly the constituents being companies and sectors listed on the ASX.
Jackson’s role at Australis is to assist the CEO with wholesale target manger identification, evaluation and potential investment opportunities as proposed under the boutique incubation model to be deployed using the Australis AFS licence. Jackson will also be heavily involved in preparing research papers for the Australis Investment Committee, which is charged with making decisions on any complex and/or material minority equity investment opportunities to be made on behalf of the business. Jackson will also be involved in organising monthly client reporting and preparing quarterly compliance & Board papers for the Australis business.
Roberto Bettiol
Administration / Operations Manager
Advanced Diploma of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Roberto joined the Veritas Group in 2021 after 16 years at SONY Mobile as a Service Delivery Manager. Bringing with him over 10 years’ experience in managing Customer Service and Operations across the Oceanic region. Since joining the Veritas Group, Roberto utilises his industry experience and expertise to oversee Group administration operational responsibilities including providing administrative/operational support for the Australis team.
Kelly Randle
Financial Controller & Compliance Officer
Diploma of Accounting
Kelly is an experienced financial controller with strong administration, communication and compliance skills. She has a passion for accounting and an eye for detail and enjoys working with her colleagues to solve problems and add value for clients. Kelly’s industry knowledge has developed over 25 years of working alongside high-quality clients in both private and listed equities firms and she joined Veritas in 2013.
Bryce Reynolds
Non-Executive Director, Non-Executive Responsible Manager, Non-executive Investment Committee Member
Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting/Finance UNSW
Bryce has been involved in the finance industry since 1986 providing him with 35+ years of industry knowledge and experience. Since 2000, Bryce has expanded his areas of expertise to include Funds Management and Investment Banking including Mergers and Acquisitions. He held leading roles with two mid-tiered Australian Securities firms before establishing Veritas as a founding director in 2006.
Bryce specialises in strategic Corporate Advice and Equity Capital Markets and oversees the operation and management of Veritas. His positions at Australis include being a non-executive director, non-executive Responsible Manager under the Australis AFS licence and investment committee member charged with making investment decisions.
Piers Reynolds
Company Secretary , Non-Executive Director
Bachelor of Applied Science in Geology (UTS)
Grad. Dip. Applied Finance and Investment from FINSA
Piers has over 25 years’ experience in the minerals and finance industries. He was previously a geologist in gold, base metals, and bulk commodities for ten years prior to joining a mid-tier Australian securities firm as a resource analyst. Piers has extensive experience in exploration, development and operation of mining projects and detailed knowledge of Equity Capital Markets, Corporate Advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions and Fundamental Analysis. He was a founding director of Australis and remains a non-executive director and company secretary.
Grant Kull
Non-Executive Responsible Manager, Non-executive Investment Committee Member
Diploma of Financial Services from the Australian Financial Markets Association
Grant has over 30 years financial markets experience. In his position as a senior broker, Grant is responsible for providing broking services in relation to fixed interest securities, futures options and foreign exchange, both domestically and offshore. In relation to fixed interest securities, Grant is responsible for broking activities between counterparties of both major Australian banks and international investment banks situated both in Australia and around the word. In relation to futures products, Grant is responsible for receiving and executing client orders across a range of products platforms, and for exchanging, liaising with and advising a broad range of clients including hedge funds, banks, fund managers, and investment banks. Again, Grant conducts these activities both domestically and offshore, and in relation to a variety of complex and simple hedging, trading and profit-making financial futures and option strategies.