BSc (Bus Ad), MAppFin, GAICD | Independent Non Executive Director
Experience and expertise
Ms Downes is a director of the ASX Group clearing and settlement facility licensees and their intermediate holding companies. She is also on the panel of the ASX Appeals Tribunal. Pippa is also a director of the Pinnacle Foundation. Ms Downes was a Managing Director and Equity Partner of Goldman Sachs in Australia until October 2011, working in the Proprietary Investment division. Ms Downes has had a successful international banking and finance career spanning over 20 years where she has led the local derivative and trading arms of several of the world’s leading Investment Banks. She has extensive experience in Capital Markets, derivatives and asset management.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2004, Ms Downes was a director and the Head of Equity Derivatives Trading at Deutsche Bank in Sydney. When Morgan Stanley was starting its equity franchise in Australia in 1998 she was hired to set up the Derivative and Proprietary Trading business based in Hong Kong and Australia. Ms Downes started her career working for Swiss Bank O’Connor on the Floor of the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange in San Francisco, followed by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, before returning to work in Sydney as a director for UBS.
Pippa was previously an appointed Director on the Board of Swimming Australia and the Swimming Australia Foundation. Pippa graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration majoring in Finance and Accounting. Pippa also completed a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University in 1998.
OAM, LLB, FAICD | Independent Non Executive Director
Experience and expertise
Nancy has been a professional non-executive director for over a decade. She is a former lawyer with over 30 years’ experience with primary areas of legal expertise in insurance, risk management, and corporate governance. She was a partner with Clayton Utz until 2003 and a consultant until 2012. She is currently Chairman of the Securities Exchange Guarantee Corporation, deputy chairman of the State Insurance Regulatory Authority and a director of Pillar Administation. She was previously a director of Australand Property Group, Crowe Horwarth Australasia, State Plus and Novion Property Group (now Vicinity Centres).
Nancy has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney. She is a member of the NSW Council of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Institute’s Law Committee.
BSc(Bus Ad), MAppFin, GAICD | Non-executive Director
Experience and expertise
Paul has over 30 years’ experience in commercial and residential property management, development and real estate transactions with major multinational institutions. Paul was Chief Investment Officer at Dexus Property Group from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that he was with Lend Lease Corporation for 11 years in various positions culminating with being the Head of Corporate Finance. Paul is a director of GPT Metro Office Fund and Frasers Logistic & Industrial Trust (SGX listed).
Paul has a Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment and a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Fellow of the Australian Property Institute and a Licensed Real Estate Agent (NSW, VIC, QLD).