Leadership

Directors

Peter Gribble
Managing Director and Chairman - 25 Years Experience

 

Mr. Peter Gribble is the founder of Quantum (in 1986) and was responsible for the direction and development of many of its property financial products.  Mr. Gribble is a qualified accountant and has over 24 years experience in tax, investment markets and property.

 

Mr. Gribble has been involved in approximately A$1 billion of property transactions over that period, including direct involvement in most aspects of property acquisitions, management and development.

 

Mr. Gribble main role is the development and marketing of financial products to both retail and wholesale investors and to drive the strategic direction of the company.  Mr. Gribble graduated from La Trobe University Melbourne with a certificate in Accounting in 1985 and qualified as a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Accountants in 1998.

 

Mr. Gribble has been a member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants (ASCPA) as a CPA since 1993 and a certified Property, Stock and Business Agent since 2004.

 

JoAnna Fisher
Non-executive Director - 20 Years Experience

 

JoAnna Fisher has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector, with a thorough knowledge of investment management and investment banking. Ms. Fisher is a former General Manager – Strategy and Marketing for the Commonwealth Bank. She also spent 12 years at Bankers Trust Corporation in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and Australia, developing and managing the institutional funds management businesses.

 

At Bankers Trust Corporation, Ms. Fisher was a member of the Bankers Trust Global Asset Allocation Committee. Ms. Fisher holds degrees in Economics and Asian Studies from the Australian National University and a Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 

 

Benjamin Dillon
Non-executive Director - 20 Years Experience

 

Mr. Dillon has over 20 years experience in a variety of business related roles including Westpac where he was a senior executive in Institutional Bank originations responsible for the Hotels portfolio before becoming Head of Property. Prior to this Mr Dillon was an executive at Macquarie Bank Limited where he specialised in hospitality and leisure property transactions and also a Partner and Director of corporate finance at KPMG. He is a graduate in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney and holds a Masters of Management (Marketing) from the Macquarie University Graduate School of Management. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a Member of the Royal Institution Chartered Surveyors.

 

Management Team

Brent Mulligan
Fund Manager - 15 Years Experience

 

Mr. Brent Mulligan is a licensed real estate manager with over 15 years of property and finance experience.  Mr. Mulligan worked for eight years in investment banking at UBS (London), Credit Suisse (Singapore) and Deutsche Bank (Sydney).  Prior to joining Quantum he ran his own business providing property consultancy services to a number of the property funds across Australia.  He has executed over A$850 million worth of transactions.

 

Mr. Mulligan is responsible for the financial modeling for the acquisition and disposal of property and development projects and the management and delivery of newly acquired assets within the current opportunity funds.

 

Mr. Mulligan received a Bachelors degree in Commerce in 1991, obtained a Diploma in Applied Finance at the Securities Institute of Australia in 1994 and obtained his real estate license in 2004.

 

 

Brooke Veenstra
Senior Asset Manager - 10 Years Experience

 

Brooke Veenstra has over 10 years of finance and property experience. Prior to joining Quantum Brooke spent 5 years in the Uk managing a team of project and letting staff with various private developers through an agency in Central London, where she obtained a diploma in Asset Management and Project Management.

Miss Veenstra is responsible for overseeing the analysis of property approvals, finance procurement and modelling as well as general management of the structured products division.

Miss Veenstra has obtained her diploma in Asset Management and Project management as well as her licence in Real Estate in 2001.

 

 

Felicia Jamieson
Tax & Accounting Manager - 15 Years Experience

 

Ms. Felicia Jamieson B. Bus CPA and member of the Taxation Institute of Australia heads the accounting and private wealth division. Felicia is responsible for services provided by Quantum Accounting which includes tax, accounting and advice to predominantly high wealth individuals and small to medium businesses. Felicia joined Quantum in August 2005 and had brought over ten years' extensive experience to the firm.

 

Ms. Jamieson previously worked at Trust Company of Australia Limited where her role encompassed the management of taxation issues for corporate listed trusts, deceased estates, goods and services tax (GST), self managed superannuation funds (SMSF) and managed an elite client base. Felicia has extensive experience in estate planning and taxation structures. She provides tax advice to top executives on all types of remunerations and income tax issues. Felicia also worked within a number of large mid tier accounting firms.

 

 

Vincent Lai
Internal Portfolio Auditor - 8 Year Experience

 

Mr. Vincent Lai CPA is a senior accountant with over eight years experience in various accounting roles, predominantly in public practice.

 

He joined Quantum in 2006 and holds a senior accounting position, responsible for risk-based compliance audits; conducts ad hoc internal reviews and investigations and provides monthly reporting services on the Portfolio Warrants assets and loan book.

 

 

Stephen Kim
Senior Tax Accountant - 9 Years Experience

 

Mr. Stephen Kim CA is a qualified accountant who provides technical expertise to the firm in the areas of tax and self managed superannuation funds. He also supervises and ensures high quality of work by the firm's accountants.

 

Prior to joining Quantum in April 2006, Stephen has had prior experience in a Chartered accounting firm providing similar tax, accounting and business services advice to high wealth individuals and small to medium sized businesses.

 

Compliance Committe

Paul J Kellahan, JP
50 Years Experience

 

For over 50 years Mr Kellahan has been involved in the Australian banking and/or funds management industry. He has held senior executive positions with one of Australia’s largest banks, was a state manager and divisional director of a listed entity 51% owned by the Commonwealth and an independent consultant to several of the world’s larger international banks.

 

Over that same period Mr. Kellahan also gained considerable international experience through long to medium term assignments in the UK, USA, Singapore and Canada. Mr Kellahan has also had experience as an investment banker where structuring and funding of both debt and equity was required and he led a group on a $600 million bond issue for a federal government instrumentality.

 

In relation to corporate governance and compliance, Mr. Kellahan has had exposure to the regulatory regimes of the Bank of England (now the FSA), the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

 

John Kean - Appointed chair of Pinpoint Pty Ltd

 

The Pacific’s largest marketing services company in June 2000. John acts as an independent business advisor and holds directorships in various businesses involved in marketing, finance, retail, primary production and technology. John is also a director of The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Chairman of the school council of Loreto, Normanhurst and Vice Chairman of The Australian Taiwan Business Council. Prior to 2000 John practiced as a chartered accountant and was the founder of WHK howarth, Australia’s 5th largest accounting practice. His professional career has covered 30 years.

 

Advisory Committee

Les Koltai
Partner - Real Estate: Blake Dawson - 24 Years Experience

 

Les Koltai is a partner of leading Australian law firm DLA Piper and is head of its Investment Real Estate team. With extensive experience in the investment real estate industry, Les has acted on a broad range of local and cross border real estate transactions including domestic and cross-border direct and fund to fund real estate investments, developments, sales and acquisitions, foreign investment advice, real estate joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions of REITs, real estate asset management (including asset and property management, leasing and general commercial advice.

 

Qualifications
BA/LLB - UNSW - 1986
LLM - Sydney University - 1990

 

Peter Baumont

 

Currently is the managing director of a global technology company. Responsible for overseeing the investment groups technology development and implementation worldwide. Peter was also a senior member of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, consulted for the Public Trustee of NSW and Self Managed Superannuation Funds. Peter has extensive experience in raising capital, management of mortgage portfolios and restructuring debt.

 

David Rodney Woolford

 

David is currently the Managing Director at Cushman Wakefield. From 2004 - 2010 David lead Knight Frank Australasia as CEO/MD. David has been involved in the property market since 1982, his career experience has involved working across all sections of the business to gain an in depth knowledge of the property market. A licensed valuer and a National Board Member of the Property Council of Australia and a member of the Audit Committee.