Responsible Entity Board of Directors
Jennifer Horrigan
Independent Chair
BBus, GradDipMgt, GradDipAppFin, MAICD
Director since 2012
Chair since 2022
Member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee
Jennifer is an experienced non-executive director across ASX, unlisted and not-for-profit boards. She brings a diverse set of skills with executive experience across investment banking, investor relations and financial communications, including as Chief Operating Officer of independent investment bank Greenhill Australia (previously Greenhill Caliburn) and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Savage & Horrigan, an Ogilvy company.
Jennifer is an independent director of AMP Capital Funds Management Limited and AMP Investment Services Pty Limited, and a non-executive director of A2B (ASX:A2B) and Yarra Funds Management Limited. She has previously served as a non-executive director of QV Equities (ASX:QVE), Generation Healthcare (ASX:GHC) and as Chairman of Redkite (national children’s cancer charity).
Jonathan Sweeney
Independent Director
BCom, LLB, CFA, GAICD
Director since 2022
Member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee
Jonathan has over 35 years’ experience in the investment management, fiduciary, real estate and financial services sectors having held senior executive roles at Folkestone and the Trust Company Limited. Jonathan is a director of BT Financial Group, EP&T Global (ASX:EPX), Chair of Perpetual Private’s Investment Committee and a member of the Noongar Boodja Trust’s Investment Committee. He was previously a director of 8IP Emerging Companies Limited (ASX:8EC), Velocity Rewards Pty Limited, Tennis NSW and Easton Investments (ASX:EAS)
Danielle Carter
Independent Director
BA/BCom, Grad Dip AppFin,CA,GAICD
Director since 2022
Member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee
Danielle has over 25 years' experience in the real estate, financial services and property funds management having held senior executive roles at Blackrock, SG Hiscock & Co and Strategic Financial Management. Danielle is also a non-executive director of BWP Management Limited, the responsible entity of BWP Trust (ASX:BWP) and was previously a non-executive director of APN Property Group Limited (ASX:APD).
Deborah Coakley
Executive Director
BBus, GAICD
Dexus appointed since 2021
Deborah Coakley is Executive General Manager, Funds Management with responsibility for managing Dexus’s $44.5 billion funds management business which comprises a number of wholesale pooled funds, capital partnerships, retail funds and listed REITs.
She has more than 25 years’ experience in management roles gained in organisations such as Deloitte, Qantas and Alexander Mann Solutions.
Deborah is an Executive Director of Dexus Wholesale Funds Limited, Dexus Asset Management Limited and AMP Capital Funds Management Limited. She is also a National Vice President of the Property Council of Australia and a member of their Capital Markets Division and is a non-Executive Director of the Children’s Cancer Institute, and a Member of the National Construction Industry Forum. She holds a Bachelor of Business degree from University of Technology Sydney (BBus) and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
Emily Smith
Independent Director
BCom, GAICD
Director since 2022
Chair of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee
Emily has over 20 years’ experience in the finance sector having worked in senior executive roles at Deutsche Bank AG and Credit Suisse. She has had significant exposure to key sectors including Building Materials, Steel, Diversified Industrials, REITs and Telecommunications both domestically and globally.
Emily is a Senior M&A Advisor and Director at Grant Samuel. She is a member of Chief Executive Women and was a Council Member of the Kambala Girls School.
Alex Abell
Fund Manager
Alex has been part of APN Property Group (now part of Dexus) as the Fund Manager of APN Industria REIT since April 2016. Alex has more than 17 years of experience across all the key areas of real estate funds management, including asset management, leasing, capital transactions, corporate finance and investor relations.
Alex’s previous roles have been across multiple property sectors at Investa Office, Stockland and Halladale (United Kingdom). His achievements range from delivering Investa Office Fund’s strategy of selling offshore assets and reinvesting proceeds into the domestic market to establish a high quality portfolio of Australian CBD Office assets generating attractive risk-adjusted returns, to managing a suite of funds in the UK from 2006 to 2010, a period of rapid change in real estate markets.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Newcastle and an Advanced Diploma of Financial Services.
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