Andrew is the Group Managing Director, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Qualitas.
He has over 39 years’ experience in financial services with an extensive track record across real estate investments, pioneering the alternative credit market in Australia in the late 1990s with a focus initially on mezzanine debt.
He is responsible for overseeing the firm’s activities, setting the strategic direction of the business as well as building and enhancing relationships with clients and investors. Andrew is the Chief Investment Officer for the firm’s debt and equity funds. Andrew is currently a director of several Qualitas Group entities, including Arch Finance.
Prior to Qualitas, Andrew was a Head of Asia Pacific Real Estate at Babcock & Brown, the Director of Risk at AIDC and a Senior Manager at Bank of America. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Economics (Accounting) from Monash University. He is a Member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and CPA Australia. Andrew is a member of the Investment Committee.
As Co-Founder of Qualitas, Mark is Global Head of Real Estate, leading a team of investment professionals across everything from origination, execution and analysis to asset and portfolio management across real estate private credit and private equity strategies.
With over 20 years of experience across residential, commercial office, industrial logistics, retail and multifamily housing asset classes, Mark has been responsible for over A$15 billion of transaction value across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and New Zealand.
Kathleen leads our Corporate Development team and is responsible for the planning and execution of strategic projects and our approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG), including as a management representative on the firm’s ESG Advisory Group. With over 25 years of experience in financial services in real estate and infrastructure, across a variety of roles from transaction advisory, principal investment and raising capital in the public and private markets.
Kathleen is a Member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.
With over 30 years of experience in real estate financing markets, including former senior roles at Investec Bank and NAB, Tim leads our Investment and Funds Risk team, which includes Investment, Legal and Fund Risk. In this role he is responsible for both credit and equity transaction risk across all Funds and is Chair of the Investment Committee. He is also a member of the Qualitas Trustee Board.
Tim joined Qualitas in 2011 and has a deep understanding of the firm’s risk culture, including our continued strong track record of disciplined asset management. He established our Sydney presence in 2011 and during his time with the firm has held several senior roles, including Head of the Real Estate Debt team and more recently as Global Head of Capital.
As Chief Financial Officer and member of the Finance and Audit Committee, Philip’s role is to provide the operational platform and financing to support our expanding mandates.
Previously, Philip was CFO at IFM Investors, one of Australia’s largest fund managers. With over 35 years of experience in strategy development, financial management and people leadership, he brings a depth of financial services knowledge to the team.
Dean leads our Capital team and is responsible for capital raisings and client servicing for institutional and wholesale investors in Australia and overseas.
Prior to joining Qualitas, Dean was joint Managing Director and Co-Founder of Chauvel Capital Partners Pty Ltd, a boutique real estate fund manager. He brings over 23 years of global institutional capital raising experience having previously held senior leadership roles with AMP Capital, Perpetual Limited and Prudential PLC both in Australia and Asia.
Michelle leads our People and Culture strategy and is responsible for the human resources (HR) strategy from organisation design, reward and talent strategy across the employee life cycle.
Michelle has over 15 years’ experience in HR, most recently with Vanguard Investments Australia as Head of Total Rewards and HR Operations. Prior to Qualitas, Michelle worked at global engineering firm, GHD across several HR roles with a focus on total rewards and HR policies. Michelle earned a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from Monash University.