John Macfarlane is an experienced international banker.

He served as CEO of Bankers Trust New Zealand (1998-1999), Chief Country Officer (Japan) and President of Deutsche Securities Japan (1999-2006), Executive Chairman of Deutsche Bank Australia and New Zealand (2007-2014) and Chairman and CEO of Deutsche Bank Australia (2011-2014).

During his 15 years at Deutsche Bank he was a member of the Global Markets, Global Banking and Global Regional Management Executive Committees and he also served as a Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Executive Committee (2004-2006).

John previously worked for the New Zealand Government Treasury, the Dept of Finance (PNG) and for Bankers Trust Company for 11 years in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. His current directorships include ANZ Banking Group Limited, Balmoral Pastoral Investments Pty Ltd, Colmac Group Pty Ltd, Craigs Investment Partners Limited, the Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery and St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research.

Harry Kingsley is a partner at Holding Redlich. He is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer specialising in strategic advice and negotiated transactions. He has extensive legal industry experience working in private practice and organisations in the transport and financial services industries as well as working as an investment banking professional. He is a trusted advisor to private and ASX listed corporations, their directors and management throughout Australasia.

Harry Kingsley is highly regarded for his general commercial expertise as well as specialist knowledge around private equity, private and public M&A, IPOs and equity and debt capital markets.

Harry was formerly the Senior Legal Counsel, Asciano Limited and Chief Legal Counsel, Pacific National (2011 – 2015), Executive Director, Austock Group (2005 – 2011) and a senior associate at Minter Ellison (2001 – 2005).

Mark is a co-founder of the Manager and has been the Joint Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer since the firm was founded in 2007. Since establishing the Manager, Mark has jointly headed up the L1 Capital Australian Equities Fund and L1 Capital Long Short Fund.

Prior to establishing the Manager, Mark spent five years at Invesco as an Investment Analyst in the Large Cap Australian Equities team and later as an Investment Manager in the Smaller Companies Fund. Prior to Invesco, Mark was a Senior Strategy Consultant at Accenture, where he provided financial analysis and corporate strategy advice to a range of large Australian companies across many sectors, including banking, insurance, telecommunications and retail.

Mark holds a double degree in Commerce and Economics from Monash University, is an active CFA Charterholder and is a Senior Associate of FINSIA.