Shane has been a senior partner and director of several leading international corporate advisory and corporate strategy firms prior to being a founder of Mainsheet Capital.  He has broad experience in working with the management teams and boards of top 200 companies around high value transactional and strategic decisions.

His corporate advisory and corporate strategy philosophy is centred around measuring success in terms of client outcomes and their improved shareholder value creation performance.

Shane has a proven track record in relation to mergers, acquisitions, business divestments, privatisations, capital raising, corporate portfolio strategy, growth strategy as well as business restructuring and turnaround.

His industry experience includes mining, energy, engineering and construction, utilities, infrastructure services, defence, health, transport, communications, manufacturing and processing.

Shane has extensive senior advisory experience as well as many years as managing director and Board member of several international firms and prior to that operational management experience in the mining and oil & gas industry.

Prior to co-founding Mainsheet Capital, Shane was a Partner at PwC where he was the National Head Mining and Oil & Gas Corporate Advisory practice. Shane also spend 10 years as joint MD of Mainsheet Corporate (which was acquired by PwC in 2009), 5 years as a Partner at LEK Consulting (Regional Manager S.E. Asia), 6 years at Marakon Associates and 4 years with Schlumberger in the Middle East.

Shane holds a MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and Diploma Mechanical Engineering (Adelaide), MBA (AGSM)

Maurice has been a Partner and Senior Executive of several global and Australian professional services firms, as well as an Executive in multinational companies.

Prior to joining Mainsheet Capital, Maurice was an Advisory Partner at BDO, an Executive Director Corporate Finance of Euroz Securities Ltd, Partner with PwC and Andersen consulting. In 2000 he founded Mainsheet Corporate and was its Managing Director with Shane McEwen until the business was sold to PwC in 2009.

Maurice has also been a Board member of a number of companies assisting them through their early stages of growth, and on the Board of a number of not for profit institutions.

Prior to returning to Australia in 1995, Maurice worked with Mobil in the European Strategy and Planning team, and with a Swedish chemical group, where he was responsible for Finance for Italy, France and Austria.

Maurice’s advisory philosophy is to bring his practical experience to work with clients to manage complex transactions and/or change situations that have a large impact on value creation for shareholders and other stakeholders.

He has worked in Australia, Europe and the Middle East on projects for clients such as Mining and Oil & Gas services, Water and Power utilities, Financial, Technology and Professional Services and Transport & Logistics. He has also been involved with a number of technology start ups, assisting them to commercialise and eventually to IPO.

Maurice is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, holds a Post Graduate Diploma from Curtin University in Accounting and Finance, and graduated from the University of Western Australia with First Class Honours.

Stephen is an experienced corporate advisor with a blend of M&A, strategy and engineering skills. His experience includes over 10 years in corporate advisory and management consultancy and over 10 years in the commercial property industry in a variety of roles.

Stephen’s advisory experience includes M&A, divestments, capital raisings, business unit strategy, commercial due diligence and design & implementation of performance improvement initiatives.

His industry experience includes mining, oil & gas, ports, transport & logistics, equipment hire, utilities, defence, construction, FMCG, financial services, technology and manufacturing.

Prior to joining Mainsheet Capital, Stephen worked as an independent advisor for several years and before that he held senior positions in PwC Advisory and Mainsheet Corporate.

Before becoming an advisor and management consultant, Stephen worked within AMP Capital Investor’s Commercial & Industrial Property Division as a Regional Operations Manager and was responsible for the operational management and business planning for over $2 billion of property assets in QLD and NSW. Stephen was also the Development Engineer on a $250 million retail property development and began his career as an electrical engineer.

Stephen holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from the University of Sydney and an MBA (Executive) from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Bill has over 20 years industry and consulting experience working in Australia, Brazil, UK and South Africa.

Bill’s recent experience (last 5 years) has been as Managing Director of Chalice Gold and Chief Development Officer at Mirabela Nickel.  His experience includes capital raising (debt and equity), investor relations, business development (M&A and exploration), operations, managing key technical projects (e.g. plant expansions, throughput/recovery optimisation, equipment rebuilds, tailings dams, technical report), and turnaround / performance improvement.

Bill has also spent over 10 years in Corporate Advisory as a Director at PwC’s consulting practice, an Associate Director at Mainsheet Corporate and a Senior Consultant at Corven Group (UK).  Bill has strong experience in providing M&A, strategy, capital raising, divestments, performance improvement and corporate finance advice primarily focusing on the mining, mining services, oil & gas services, industrials and utilities sectors.

Bill also spent several years as a process engineer with Genesis Oil & Gas (UK) focusing on oil & gas feasibility studies for Oil & Gas Operators after starting his career as metallurgist at Anglo Gold in South Africa.

Gerard is an experienced consultant and executive with 30 years management, consulting, leadership and advisory experience.

His consulting expertise spans corporate strategy, M&A, operation reviews and implementation of large change projects. He has led and completed significant change programs including numerous business integrations, post-contract/transaction implementation projects, client service and account programs, cost restructures and responsibility of digital strategy to align with business 3-5 year goals.

Prior to joining Mainsheet Capital Gerard held four CEO and executive roles in private businesses and ASX companies across professional services, construction, inspection and maintenance industries. Roles included National Chief Operating Officer, two CEO roles and General Manager BD, Contracts and Estimating. In his most recent National COO role he worked with more than 6 operating divisions and support functions across nine offices of more than 1200 staff. He was responsible for projects such as business integration, strategy and digital strategy. He was involved in large change programs, planning and budgeting as well as the National Executive and National Risk Committee. Gerard held a role as a Director for a number of years in the national entity. These management roles bring significant practice experience to Gerard’s consulting expertise.

Gerard’s consulting career included roles as a Director in Mainsheet Corporate for 6 years and prior to that consulting roles in Arthur Andersen and Arthur D Little in their Sydney offices.

Gerard commenced his career as an Officer in the Australian Infantry Regiment culminating as an officer in the Australian SAS.

Studies include a full time MBA from AGSM, UNSW and graduation with an Officers Commission in the Australian Regular Army from The Royal Military College, Duntroon.

Gerard has been a Director of a number of businesses and is currently an Advisory Board member of a risk business and a technology services company.

Ian’s recent experience has been as a transformational leader at Bankwest (a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank) including Head of Transformation for HR, Head of Strategy & Operations for IT and CFO for IT.

His experience includes leading large transformation projects across national and divisional teams, delivering extensive cost efficiency programs and managing project portfolios.

In addition, during his time at Bankwest he has had accountability for HR operations & projects, Vendor Management, the Portfolio Management Office and Finance for IT where he had a track record of improving the operational effectiveness and efficiencies of teams.

Prior to Bankwest, Ian was the CFO for Support Areas at HBOS Australia and a senior finance executive at HBOS in the UK. Ian spent 4 years at Ernst & Young in Aberdeen focussed on the Oil & Gas sector before this.

Ian qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1999.

Emma is a corporate finance specialist with over two decades of cross-border transaction experience in Australia and the UK.

Previously Emma was a Corporate Finance Partner at BDO. Prior to this Emma was a member of the Deals Team of a global accounting firm in London, and ran the in-house Corporate Finance team at Travelex, also in London.

Emma has worked on over 50 transactions, ranging in value from $5 million to £1.1billion across industries including mining services, oil & gas, health, telecommunications, wholesale, manufacturing, foreign exchange and retail.

Emma has a proven and enviable track record in the Mergers & Acquisitions space, spanning both buy and sell-side transactions, post transaction integration programmes and various IPOs. In addition, she has considerable experience in strategic and financial planning, forecasting, modelling, and business process improvement.

Dan has 17 years of experience advising large and mid-size organisations on customer-led growth strategy, transaction advisory and performance improvement.

Dan’s strategy experience includes growth strategy, customer experience, customer value propositions, digital experience strategy and design, channel strategy and strategic sourcing. His corporate advisory experience includes buy-side and sell-side mandates, acquisition-led growth strategy, valuation modelling, investment analysis and commercial due diligence.

His industry experience includes telecommunications, government, manufacturing, financial services, construction materials, mining services and IT.

Prior to Mainsheet Capital, spent 9 years leading customer and digital transformation strategy at Optus and the Department of Human Services. During his time at Optus, Dan worked with the executive team to develop the ‘Brilliant Service’ strategy, one of the 3 major pillars across the Consumer & SMB business, bringing together the CX vision, strategic analysis, key initiatives and capital investment plan across web, app, call centre, retail, product, loyalty and supply chain. This supported Optus lifting its NPS from negative double-digits to +12. He also led the strategy and design for all-digital experiences including NBN, mobile onboarding and digital service. Dan also worked with the Department of Human Services to build its 10-year vision for service delivery, as well as its 3-year mobile-led digital strategy.

Before that, Dan was a senior manager with PwC Strategy and Mainsheet Corporate, after starting his career in IT consulting and programming with EDS Australia.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Technology, Sydney, and an MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

Steve has been involved in management and valuation consulting for over 25 years.  His primary interest and consulting focus is around assisting firms create value.   

His assignments have included development of corporate and business unit strategic and implementation plans, business valuations, capital expenditure appraisal and approval systems, cost of capital estimation and merger and acquisition advice.  In addition, he has conducted numerous business valuations for infrastructure assets for funds managers and super funds, for taxation purposes (for the ATO and corporates) as an expert witness for court cases and for Independent Expert Reports.  Steve has also been involved in the regulatory price setting process for Utilities since the process began in the late 1990s.

Steve’s experience in consulting since 1988 covers a range of industries, including Aquaculture, Chemical, Defence, Electricity (Distribution, Retail and Transmission), Financial Services (Banking and Insurance), Food Processing, Gas, Golf, Health, Minerals, Paper Manufacture, Postal Services, Property, Rail, Retailing, Shipping and Transportation, Telecommunications, Water and Wastewater.

Steve co-founded a business specialising in business valuations (Value Adviser Associates), has been a partner in Mainsheet Corporate and LEK Consulting.  Prior to these positions he was a Senior Manager for Marakon Associates (an international value based management consulting firm) and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

In addition Steve has strong academic experience from his 13 years as a full time Corporate Finance academic and a continuing role in teaching in the Macquarie Masters of Corporate Finance program.

Steve holds a PhD from AGSM, UNSW, a M Com (Hons) from UNSW, a B Ec from Monash University and is a FCPA.

Anant has 10 years of Corporate Finance and Transaction Advisory experience. Anant developed his strong expertise advising on buy-side and sell-side mandates, valuations and capital raisings for clients ranging from top-tier institutional banks, leading private equity houses, large multinationals, ASX listed companies to small privately held businesses in Australia.

Anant’s professional services experience includes financial due diligence for M&A transactions and acquisition lending and lead advisory on M&A transactions. Within commerce & industry, he has worked closely with Executive Management teams on strategic projects which add value to the business and achieve targeted shareholder outcomes, including mergers & acquisitions, business restructuring, capital expenditure growth, capital structuring and strategic growth options.

His industry experience includes fashion retail, property development, equipment hire, media & advertising, manufacturing and distribution, property funds, building and construction and mining services.

Prior to joining Mainsheet Capital in 2016, Anant spent two years in London, UK, working at Lend Lease and Long Tall Sally, a privately-owned fashion retail house. Prior to London, Anant held Managerial roles at Grant Thornton and Ernst & Young, working in the Transaction Advisory and Mergers & Acquisitions divisions, respectively.

Anant holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Macquarie University in Sydney and is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

A driven commercial leader with a strategic focus who is committed to safety, sustainability and value creation. He takes a streamlined approach through the most complicated matters to identify key value drivers and facilitate optimal decisions.

James has extensive experience in energy and emissions, having previously managed multi-billion-dollar PPA’s, GSA’s and hydrocarbon contracts. He is passionate about NPV positive strategies to reduce emissions and working with executive teams to set the most appropriate emissions and energy strategies.

James leverages on his 10+ years across bulk commodities and precious metals working in a range of corporate and site-based roles. He has developed capital evaluation programs, implemented a large range of cost reductions activities and assisted businesses to transform their operating philosophy through leveraging new technologies.

Chris has significant experience in strategy, analysis, and project management roles across Australia, Asia, and the United States, and has supported clients in the utilities, mining services, and aged and disability care sectors.  He has built three-statement financial models to assess income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow impacts of growth options and has developed cost models to identify cost drivers and efficiency opportunities.  He has an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Accounting and has passed Level I of the CFA Exam.

Prior to entering into the corporate advisory field, Thomas gained his professional experience over a combined five years in accounting and equity research, while obtaining his Master of Applied Finance degree with a specialisation in corporate finance.

Thomas is a very experienced research and advisory consultant who has lead large-scale research efforts and who has made primary contributions to published research reports in the following sectors:

• Waste Management
• Mining Services
• Fashion Retail
• Furniture Retail
• LEDs
• Geospatial Services
• Packaging

Additionally, during his time as an accountant he gain considerable experience in the FMCG sector and dealt with a number of the larger companies in that sectors. Thomas also has experience in conducting financial due diligence in the ports and property sectors.

At Mainsheet Thomas has worked on these projects:

• Assessment of the long term trade prospects through the Port of Townsville in support of a potential acquisition in the logistics sector
• Research and selection of potential acquisition targets in the mobile mechanic and vehicle inspections market
• Assessment of market size and growth of several construction and maintenance sectors in support of the strategic planning of a major mining services provider

Edoardo graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Economics Degree) in 2016 and has worked at Mainsheet Capital since graduation.

Edoardo has completed a number of consulting projects across industries such as Aged and Disability Care, Mining Services, Utilities as well as assisted an ASX-listed company through a merger integration process. He has worked on transactions and M&A strategies in the Agriculture, Mining Services and Aged & Disability Care industries, as well as a Blockchain technology company.

Edoardo recently joined the Board of Rebound WA, a charitable association that assists Western Australian’s living with a physical disability.

Hazel has recently completed her Bachelor of Science.

During her studies she worked for Mainsheet on several projects.

These included researching and assessing the value creation of recent M&A transactions, market and competitive research as part of various client strategy projects.

Recently Hazel has supported the development of a revised operating model, organisational structure and culture program at Development WA.

Gillian recently completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Gillian has a strong knowledge of many areas of problems solving mathematics – modelling, operations research, optimisation techniques and high-level calculus and linear algebra.

She also has experience in problem-solving techniques.

Since starting with Mainsheet, Gillian has been involved in a strategy innovation project for a large industry association, identifying and evaluating opportunities for growth and change to the organisation.