WHO WE ARE

Mark has over 30 years of investment management and capital markets experience within institutional frameworks, illustrating an extensive understanding of markets and the intensive application of robust portfolio management. Mark has a proven track record in successfully managing fixed-income and multi-asset income portfolios, a rich background in assessing debt securities, constructing fixed-income portfolios, developing financial services products and accurately measuring investment performance. 

With his work primarily spanning the USA, UK, Western Europe and parts of Africa, Dr Klein has leveraged deep expertise and focuses on the monetization and funding challenges across the property, infrastructure, commodities and natural resource sectors. A starting point for Dr Klein is always to understand customers’ interests and needs, while identifying how traditional methodologies and solutions are under constant challenge. Not surprisingly, the approach employed by Dr Klein enables innovation via providing high value-focused solutions when partnering with clients in achieving their goals.

Cath is an experienced Ecologist, Innovator & Leader, with 28+ years of advising, designing & delivering major water and natural resource projects globally. She is actively involved in delivering carbon and environmental market projects across Australia, USA, SE Asia and Africa. A results-driven leader that creates high-performing and empowered teams, Cath works on complex projects that leverage carbon, eco-markets and technology to help local communities to connect to capital, while restoring landscapes at scale.

Dr Kirke has ~ 30 years’ experience in various roles with Australia’s most reputable organizations, working across sectors including infrastructure (social, private and public), property as well as international capital markets. Firms have included the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), Queensland Treasury Corp (QTC), Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Booz Allen Hamilton, Energex and Aurizon to name a few. Outside of this work, Dr Kirke has provided reviews on critical infrastructure; submitted reviews towards national competition policy; as well as providing expert witness testimony on the pricing of infrastructure assets that have been in commercial dispute and litigation.

Over the last 35 years’ Raymond has developed highly technical expertise by working with organisations including GE Investment Corporation, Citizens Utilities, FRONTIER Communications, Black & Veatch as well as consulting to a plenitude of global brands such as Apple, AT&T, ABB, Bayer, Blackstone, Blackrock, BNP Paribus, Booze Allen, Cargill, Carlyle Group, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Deutsch Bank, Eli Lily, Fluor, Freeport-McMoRan, GE, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, Honeywell, HSBC, KKR, Macquarie, Major League Baseball, McKinsey, Microsoft, the National Football League, Pfizer, Soc General and Walmart.

Michael has spent 30 years successfully selling and trading financial markets across all asset classes, specialising within fixed interest and structured finance products. As a leader and former Managing Director at Lehman Brothers Australia, Michael has led institutional sales teams in domestic and global investment banks. At GBC, a broader mandate sees him also applying his skills to property, infrastructure and carbon related projects.

Harshane is one of Australia’s leading property and infrastructure development lawyers.  He has been a development financier and a lead arranger of both equity and debt facilities for development projects.  Having trained as both an architect and a lawyer, Harshane is the advisor on some of Australia’s most high-profile projects, including the iconic Barangaroo project since its inception. 

Chloe is an accomplished corporate finance professional with nearly 15 years of experience in capital markets, having worked on numerous public & private market transactions both domestically and overseas. Chloe specialises in corporate advisory, equity capital markets, M&A and private equity. She has 5 years of local and global board & corporate governance experience.

With a career of 35 plus years, Phil is a seasoned advisor with extensive experience guiding resource-intensive industries (mining, heavy industry, and large-scale infrastructure) towards sustainable and commercially viable growth. Based on deep expertise in emissions reduction, operational optimisation and resource efficiency, Phil plays a pivotal role with integrating sustainability into industrial strategies whilst maintaining profitability. With a strong track record in both listed and private-owned realms, Phil ensures that clients successfully navigate the evolving landscape of carbon markets and sustainability-driven investment.

Mark is a strategic advisor and industry connector with an extensive network across the oil, gas and heavy industry sectors. Mark specialises in aligning industrial clients with financing and carbon market mechanisms, leveraging his expertise to accelerate large-scale decarbonisation efforts. He works at the intersection of industry, capital, and regulation, ensuring that major emitters can implement effective carbon reduction strategies while maintaining operational and financial resilience.

Joseph is a skilled business, operations and project leader with over 30 years of experience in property, construction and the finance sectors. Joseph has a proven track record in structuring and building high-performing teams, delivering operational excellence and undertaking complex project management, altogether witnessing outcomes on time and within budget. Passionate about sustainable solutions and delivering real impact, Joseph specialises in stakeholder management & operations.

Jocelyne Landry Tsonang is an environmental and natural resource management expert working at the intersection of climate, biodiversity, sustainable finance, circular economy and gender with over ten (10) years of experience.  Jocelyne is a non-executive director of the African Circular Economy Network and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Sustainable Use of Resources.  She holds a master’s degree in forestry science,  is a European University Institute fellow and a Certified Expert in NDC Strategy and Financing.

Faisal Hassan is an Australian CPA and international business development leader with more than a decade of cross‑border experience across Australia, Bangladesh, Africa, Middle East and Asia. He specialises in project funding, international trade, financial management and multinational stakeholder partnerships - working closely with global institutions, government agencies, and private sector groups. With a career spanning senior commercial roles in Australia’s leading logistics and manufacturing organisations, Faisal brings a rare blend of financial discipline, operational expertise and strategic vision, strengthening commercial ties between Australia, Bangladesh and Asia through responsible investment, green financing, and strategic partnership development.