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Aidan Allen

Aidan Allen

Co-CEO, Jarden Group.

Aidan Allen joined Jarden as a foundation member of our Australian business and as Managing Director and Co-CEO, Jarden Group.

Sarah Rennie

Sarah Rennie

Co-CEO, Jarden Group.

Sarah Rennie is a foundation leader of Jarden in Australia and one of Australia’s most senior capital markets advisors, having led some of the country’s most significant transactions during a career spanning more than 20 years.

Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert

Head of Australian Research.

Ben leads Jarden’s Australian research team and consumer sector coverage, developing independent and thought provoking insights to inform investor strategy.

John Spencer

John Spencer

Head of Institutional Equities.

John Spencer joined Jarden as a foundation leader in Australia after 22 years in markets across equity research, sales, equity capital markets and corporate finance.

SooJin Yoon

SooJin Yoon

Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel.

SooJin Yoon manages the Jarden Group's Legal and Compliance functions in Australia and New Zealand and is the General Counsel.

Timothy Keegan

Timothy Keegan

Managing Director, COO.

Tim has over 25 years of leadership experience in financial services across stockbroking, wealth and asset management with a focus on building new businesses.

Adam Lennen

Adam Lennen

Managing Director, Head of Corporate Finance Melbourne.

Adam Lennen leads the Corporate Finance team in Melbourne for Jarden Australia.

Bryce Thompson

Bryce Thompson

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Bryce Thompson joined Jarden as Head of our Technology Corporate Finance team after a 16 year career in Australia.

Chris Bryan

Chris Bryan

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Chris has joined Jarden as a key member of our Equity Sales team, focusing on serving our Melbourne Institutional client base. With over 30 years of experience in financial markets, Chris brings extensive expertise in equity sales across domestic, European, and Asian markets.

Ed Wilson

Ed Wilson

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Ed is part of the Equity Sales team at Jarden, covering both domestic and offshore investors.

Enrico Musso

Enrico Musso

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Enrico is a seasoned capital markets operator with expertise spanning a wide range of areas, including international and domestic bonds, private credit, leverage finance, hybrids and equity-linked products, capital management, and fixed income and equity derivatives.

Frank Sarks

Frank Sarks

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Frank has over 20 years financial markets experience, with the past 18 years at Macquarie Equities on the institutional equities desk where he was instrumental in building out the domestic institutional coverage as a sales trader.

Ian Arnold

Ian Arnold

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Ian Arnold joined Jarden in August 2022 to help establish Jarden’s Melbourne presence. Ian joins Jarden after over 30 years with Credit Suisse in markets, across equity trading, sales, equity capital markets and corporate finance.

Jackson Ross

Jackson Ross

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Prior to joining Jarden, Jackson spent over 13 years at Transurban as part of their senior leadership team. Prior to Transurban, Jackson worked at Booz & Company across infrastructure M&A and business transformation programs.

Jakob Cakarnis

Jakob Cakarnis

Managing Director, Equity Research.

Jakob Cakarnis has 10 years experience in the Finance Industry working initially as a Graduate within Macquarie Bank and as an Equity Research Analyst with Citi.

Lou Pirenc

Lou Pirenc

Head of Property and REITs, Equity Research.

Lou has enjoyed a 20-year career in Research and Finance across 3 continents including 18 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently Global Head of Data for the global Research department, based in New York.

Mitchell Schauer

Mitchell Schauer

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Mitchell Schauer heads Jarden’s real estate Corporate Finance team in Australia. He has spent over 13 years covering the Australian real estate sector, including 11 years at UBS.

Nathan Taylor

Nathan Taylor

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Nathan has more than 15 years’ experience within Australia’s capital markets. He has been involved in a diverse range of equity and debt capital market offerings for both large and small cap issuers.

Reeny Paraskeva

Reeny Paraskeva

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Reeny has joined Jarden from UBS, where she was previously a Managing Director based in New York. She started her career in Australia in 2005 with UBS and Goldman Sachs.

Rohan Gallagher

Rohan Gallagher

Managing Director, Equity Research.

As Managing Director, Rohan leads Jarden’s Australian industrial coverage, including Building Materials, Gaming, Steel and Infrastructure sectors.

Stephen Pickles

Stephen Pickles

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Stephen Pickles is a Managing Director in the Melbourne Corporate Finance Team.

Stuart Archibald

Stuart Archibald

Managing Director, Institutional Equities.

Stuart Archibald joined Jarden in 2020 with over 20 years experience in corporate finance and financial markets.

Steve Wheen

Steve Wheen

Managing Director, Equity Research.

Steve leads Jarden's healthcare team in Australia. Steve commenced his career in financial services at Arthur Anderson, and after completing his Professional Year with the Institute of Chartered Accountants he relocated to London where he worked in fixed income and equities at Salomon Brothers.

Yan Hui Tan

Yan Hui Tan

Managing Director, Corporate Finance.

Yan Hui has had significant experience advising on a full spectrum of large and complex mergers and acquisitions in the Australia and New Zealand market.

Benjamin Coles

Benjamin Coles

Director, Corporate Finance.

Ben leads Jarden’s Energy Transition practice. Prior to joining Jarden, he was the Chief of Staff to the former NSW Energy Minister and Treasurer, the Hon Matt Kean MP where he led the development of the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap, Renewable Energy Zone framework, and the State’s Net Zero Plan.

Ben Lyons

Ben Lyons

Director, Equity Research.

Based in Jarden’s Perth office, Ben Lyons brings more than 20 years' experience covering the Australian mining sector, from both the buy and sell sides.

Elizabeth Miliatis

Elizabeth Miliatis

Director, Equity Research.

Elizabeth provides industry-leading and thought provoking equity research and insights.

Daniel Rosenberg

Daniel Rosenberg

Director, Corporate Finance.

Daniel Rosenberg joined Jarden as a Director in the Financial Institutions team in the Corporate Finance division.

Devon Sundelowitz

Devon Sundelowitz

Director, Corporate Finance.

Devon brings a wide range of transaction experience across M&A and capital markets.

James McDougall

James McDougall

Director, Institutional Equities.

James joined Jarden in 2021 and has over 14 years of experience in Financial markets, specialising in Equities Facilitation and Principal Trading.

Joe Pardea

Joe Pardea

Director, Equity Research.

Joe is a Supervisory Analyst at Jarden Australia. He has more than 20 years’ experience across equity research, including in Supervisory Analyst, Business Manager and stock coverage roles.

Jon Bishop

Jon Bishop

Director, Equity Research.

Covering the metals & mining sectors at Jarden, Jon works across circa $500 million to +$20 billion market cap companies across the industry.

Matthew Chan

Matthew Chan

Director, Corporate Finance.

Matthew joined Jarden’s Corporate Finance team in 2021.

Michaela Jamison

Michaela Jamison

Head of ESG Research, Equity Research.

Michaela Jamison is Head of ESG research at Jarden where she is responsible for producing ESG research and insights for institutional clients.

Millie Horton

Millie Horton

Director, Corporate Finance.

Millie has had a wide range of transaction experience across capital markets and M&A.

Nathan Thomas

Nathan Thomas

Director, Corporate Finance.

Nathan Thomas joined Jarden in 2022 and is a member of the Real Estate Corporate Finance team, based in Sydney.

Nicholas McGeoch

Nicholas McGeoch

Director, Institutional Equities.

Nick joined Jarden from JP Morgan where he spent more than 11 years working across a number of business lines.

Nik Burns

Nik Burns

Director, Equity Research.

Nik brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his role as Head of Energy, including 10 years as a sell side research analyst and 18 years in the Australian upstream oil and gas sector.

Nimesh Wijesooriya

Nimesh Wijesooriya

Director, Corporate Finance.

Nimesh has significant experience working on a broad range of corporate advisory transactions, including both buy and sell side roles for both public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as debt and equity raisings including IPOs.

Nizar Torlakovic

Nizar Torlakovic

Head of Data Strategy, Equity Research.

Nizar joins Jarden with a long career in Research and Data, including 15 years of equities research experience in the Australian market.

Paul Zhu

Paul Zhu

Director, Corporate Finance.

Paul is a Director in the Infrastructure & Energy team with extensive experience advising clients on public and private M&A as well as capital markets transactions.

Renae Ridley

Renae Ridley

Director, Head Corporate Access Australia.

Renae manages the corporate access platform in Australia, with more than a decade of financial experience at firms including UBS, Macquarie (Hong Kong and London), RBS and Citi.

Riley Vernon

Riley Vernon

Director, Head of Australian Commodities.

Riley joined Jarden in 2021 and manages the commodities trading business covering Asian power & gas, emissions, renewables and agricultural products. Riley has extensive experience in listed and OTC derivative markets.

Samantha Molina

Samantha Molina

Director, Institutional Equities.

Samantha brings over 25 years sales trading experience covering domestic and international investors.

Tara Foord

Tara Foord

Director, Institutional Equities .

Tara joined Jarden from UBS where she spent 9 years across their Sydney and Hong Kong offices, primarily in equities electronic trading. 

Tim Elliott

Tim Elliott

Director, Institutional Equities.

Tim joins Jarden from Macquarie Group’s institutional trading desk and brings over 15 years of equities trading experience across execution, facilitation and inventory management.

Tim Leahy

Tim Leahy

Director, Institutional Equities.

Tim has over 25 experience in capital markets having worked at BT, Macquarie Bank and most recently at UBS in the role of Head of Real Estate Sales and Execution.

Adam Rankin

Adam Rankin

Vice President, Commodities Trading .

Adam joined the Jarden FICC team in April 2022, specialising in Australian power, gas, renewable certificates, and carbon.

Christina Pedersen

Christina Pedersen

Vice President, Corporate Finance.

Christina brings a wide range of transaction experience across M&A and capital markets with particular focus in the financial services sector.

Eric Nguyen

Eric Nguyen

Vice President, Corporate Finance.

Eric brings a wide range of transaction experience across M&A and capital markets.

Freddie Cator

Freddie Cator

Vice President, Institutional Equities.

Freddie joined the Jarden equity sales team in November 2021.

Hugh Frazer

Hugh Frazer

Vice President, Institutional Equities.

Hugh joined the Jarden equity sales team in January 2024.

James Watkins

James Watkins

Vice President, Corporate Finance.

James has experience advising both public and private companies on a wide range of transactions across M&A and capital markets.

Jean Escandor

Jean Escandor

Vice President, Corporate Finance.

Jean has extensive experience across leverage finance, private credit and debt capital markets. He has expertise in corporate lending and debt investments across loans, bonds, direct lending and mezzanine finance.

Jeff Cai

Jeff Cai

Vice President, Equity Research.

Jeff has over 10 years experience in equity and credit research, mainly focusing on Banks and Diversified Financials.

Nick Watkins

Nick Watkins

Vice President, Corporate Finance.

Prior to joining Jarden in 2021, Nick spent three years at Flagstaff Partners where he worked across a range of M&A and capital market transactions.

Tom Beadle

Tom Beadle

Vice President, Equity Research.

Tom leads Jarden’s Telecommunications, Media & Technology (TMT) research coverage.

Haruto Ima

Haruto Ima

Dealer, Commodities Trading .

Haruto (春斗) joined Jarden in 2024, specialising in energy markets.

Mia Hyland

Mia Hyland

Dealer, Commodities Trading .

Mia joined Jarden 2024, specialising in renewable energy markets, Australian and voluntary carbon markets, and energy efficiency markets.

Robbie O'Neill

Robbie O'Neill

Analyst, Commodities Trading .

Robert joined Jarden in 2023 as an intern in the investment bank. He then transitioned to the institutional commodities team as an analyst, focusing on energy efficiency schemes and voluntary carbon markets.