Investment Advisory Board
Sebastian Evans
Managing Director/Fund Manager
Sebastian Evans is the Managing Director/Fund Manager of NAOS Asset Management and has been the Fund Manager of NAOS Asset Management for the past 4 years, predominantly investing in Australian Emerging Companies in a 130/30 structure through the NAOS Emerging Companies Long/Short Equity Fund.
The Emerging Companies Fund that Sebastian managed in 2009 was recognsied by Bloomberg as the top performing hedge fund in the Asia Pacific region. The same fund was also the highest performing hedge fund in Australia for 2009 and 2010 as recognised by the Australian Financial Review. Sebastian has also recently worked as an Investment Advisor for a notable Australian family office.
Sebastian holds a Bachelors of Commerce Degree with a double major in Finance and International Business from Bond University, as well as a Masters of Applied Finance with a major in Investment Management from the Financial Services Institute of Australia. Sebastian is also currently completing an Executive MBA at the Royal Institute of Technology Melbourne and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.
Richard Granger
Independent Investment Advisor
Richard Granger is an Executive Director/Co-Founder of Southern Cross Equities. Richard has over 25 years experience in stock broking and has had an active involvement in institutional and corporate stock broking, asset sales and general corporate advice.
David O'Halloran B.Sc, MBA, FSIA
Independent Investment Advisor
David has extensive experience in the stock broking and funds management; he has been in the industry for over 36 years.
Prior to Southern Cross Equities, David was an Executive Officer at County Natwest Securities and then a consultant to its successor Salomon Smith Barney Securities (now Citigroup).
David has also held project management roles at Tubemakers of Australia (now Onesteel).