Directors of MillhouseIAG Limited

Mr. David Millhouse is the founder of MillhouseIAG and of Corporation Builders.  He has a quality academic background with degrees in science, business and law, complemented by an exemplary performance in new company generation from science and technology.

He is an expert in capitalisation planning for emerging growth companies, and is experienced in the raising of capital in the public and private equity markets in Australia and other countries, including Singapore and the United States. His performance has brought international recognition of his achievements and a Series of Australian awards, including the 1986 Bulletin - Compaq Young Executive of the Year, and the 1988 BRW – Compaq Young Executive of the Year.

He was Visiting Lecturer at the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, USA. He was the Foundation General Manager of UniQuest Ltd, the technology commercialisation vehicle of the University of Queensland. He is a Certified Member of the Institute of Management Consultants in Australia and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. David has conducted business assignments in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.

He is one of the founding practitioners of venture capital in Australia and is an Australian member of the Asia Pacific Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, based in Singapore and Hong Kong.

He is an experienced Company Director in several countries, a Trustee of the Bond University Foundation, the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and a member of the distinguished Queensland Club

Fred Kempson (Chairman) has been the Australian representative of the Bank of New York – Inter Maritime Bank Geneva since 1998. He is a director of companies including Phanron Investments Pty Ltd, Australian Retirement Managers Ltd, Southland Advisory Services Ltd and a senior consultant for Elders Securities Ltd. Fred has experience in the banking sector through his Chairmanships of the Security Pacific Bank NZ Ltd and the Australian Merchant Bankers Association.

Lorenzo Macolino (Finance Director) is Finance Director of MillhouseIAG. He was formerly the CEO of IFS Group Holdings Limited, which is an international logistics organisation based in Sydney. Lorenzo has experience in areas such as international logistics; organisational assessment and restructuring; corporate governance procedures; creation of economies of scale and tax structuring; and capital raising.

James Paulsen is a director of Corporation Builders. He has extensive academic and business experience within the private capital markets of Australia and Singapore, and has conducted studies at the Queensland University of Technology, Bond University and the American Graduate School of Management, Arizona, USA. His business experience includes positions within Mercantile Mutual ING Bank and Marsh and McLennan, providing extensive project management and information technology experience. James was employed by MillhouseIAG in 1995 to develop the Corporation Builders program from its original base in Brisbane. He was instrumental in MillhouseIAG’s development into each state capital market of Australia, Singapore and New Zealand. He is the founder of enterpriseangels.

Harry Charlton is the Chief Financial Officer of MillhouseIAG Group and has had extensive experience in financial and general management. He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. Harry has extensive Australian and overseas work experience.  He assists the Board and other General Managers in day to day financial activities, valuation of fund investments and cash flow modeling for the group internationally. 

Neill Colledge is the Institutional Relationship Manager for MillhouseIAG. He has thirty years experience in the securities industry, both as fund manager and stock broker. He joined QIC in 1990 as its seventh employee, becoming head of research for Australian equities in 1992. In this role he introduced a rigorous stock selection process as well as quantitative portfolio management methods. In addition to managing a successful A-REIT fund, he was portfolio manager of QIC's $10 Billion core Australian equities fund which outperformed its benchmark over eight years. In 2004 the board of QIC's biotechnology venture capital arm QBF asked him to serve as CEO, which he did until 2007.

Between 1992 and 1999 he was a member of AIMA Corporate Governance Committee which wrote Australia's first corporate governance standards. For twelve years he lectured for the SIA on equity analysis and portfolio management. He has served as a director of several public and private companies. Neill holds honours degrees in Latin and Economics from the University of Canterbury.   

Stephen Beirne is General Manager of Queensland Leaders, and a Manager of MillhouseIAG’s Private Client Group. Queensland Leaders develops the next generation of international businesses headquartered in Queensland. Each year, Queensland Leaders selects 15 leading private sector businesses, and puts them through an intensive 12 month education, mentoring & networking process with 30 of Queensland’s top publicly listed enterprises and professional services organisations. The MillhouseIAG Private Client Group uses the international resources of MillhouseIAG and subsidiaries to source a variety of investment options for its sophisticated investors, from short-term, fixed interest options through to long-term, multi-generational wealth strategies. In addition to his Queensland Leaders and Private Client Group roles, Stephen is also involved with the wider MillhouseIAG Group’s public relations activities, including management of sponsorships and a number of events.

Marcos Volich is Operations Manager for the MillhouseIAG group of companies. Marcos provides support to the Chief Executive on investment banking and private equity funds management activities of MillhouseIAG. The scope of Marcos’ work allows him to impact all business units as company liaison through the facilitation of Investment Banking, Funds Management and Corporate Finance matters. Marcos has completed a Bachelor of Business Management majoring in International Business and a Masters of International Economics and Finance at the University of Queensland.

Bob Honeywill has worked with David Millhouse in various corporate capacities since 1987. He was admitted to the Australian Society of CPAs in 1963 and has been a fellow of the society for the past 25 years. From 1988 to 1991, he was General Manager – Commercial Administration and Company Secretary for UniQuest Ltd, the commercial consulting company of the University of Queensland. From 1991 to 1996, he worked for a range of MillhouseIAG Group's clients in a consultancy capacity. Since 1996, he has been the MillhouseIAG Group's senior corporate analyst. From 1972 to 1987, Bob was involved in various capacities with Utah International. He was also a participant in the merger of Utah International with General Electric Corporation (GE). of the US (then the largest merger in US corporate history) and again in 1984 when BHP acquired the worldwide Utah International mining and oil interests from GE. Following the BHP acquisition, Bob was appointed Controller for BHP Utah Coal International Limited, a position he held until 1987.

Armand Aguillon is the Investor Services Manager for MillhouseIAG group of companies.  Armand provides support and maintains client relationships for all of MillhouseIAG investors.  He has over 14 years experience in customer service ranging from originating loans, mortgages and funds management in financial services.  Armand is RG 146 accredited through FINSIA and has completed a Certificate of Business through University of Southern Queensland.  Armand is also currently in the final stages of completing a Bachelor of International Business through Griffith University.

Germany

Juergen Allesch is Managing Director of MillhouseIAG GmbH (Berlin). He is also a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Life Sciences GmbH. Previously, Herr Allesch was the managing director of BIG (Berlin Innovation and Start-up Centre), the first German Innovation Centre for start-up companies at the Technical University of Berlin, and the managing director of Technologie-Vermittlungs-Agentur Berlin e.V (TVA).

Dr Wolfgang Babeck is a member of the Supervisory Board of MillhouseIAG GmbH (Berlin).

Dr Babeck is a practising Attorney and equity partner in a Berlin law firm, fluent in German, Russian, English, French and Spanish, with professional specialisations in various aspects of commercial law in several jurisdictions. He was closely involved with advising on the restructure of the Lithuanian banking sector at the end of the communist era in that country.

He is the author of two books and numerous articles.

Professor Dr. Peter Fissenewert is a member of the Deutsche Life Sciences supervisory board.

Besides his activity as a lawyer he has a professorship for business law at the private SRH College in Berlin (formerly OTA College).

His main focuses are the corporate law (Mergers & Acquisitions), laws pertaining to capital markets (IPO´s), as well as the restructuring- and reorganisation consultation. He counsels companies and entrepreneurs in all company-juridical interests where the area of the CEO's liability increasingly plays a significant role.

Sebastian Pötter is the legal representative of the funds’s custodian ANZ Nominees Ltd. in Germany. He has over 17 years experience as an independent commercial and company lawyer in Berlin and heads his own small law firm since 1999. He is an appointed Notary and holds a further admission as lawyer in Brussels. His firm, Inter alia, is a member of BITKOM, the association of the German IT-industry, and for many years has advised to the Berlin-Marathon. He is fluent in German and English and works in French and in Dutch as well.

Jasper Hagenberg is a managing partner at the law firm Buse Heberer Fromm Rechtsanwälte. With about 120 lawyers located in six different cities in Germany and six additional offices in Europe, Australia and USA the law firm ranks among the 20 largest German law firms. Jasper has extensive international experience working with global clients mainly in the areas of Corporate/M&A and intellectual property law. His clients range from listed stock corporations to mid-size companies in and out of Germany doing business on an international level, mainly in the fields of music production/entertainment industry as well as real estate. Prior to joining Buse Heberer Fromm Jasper worked for several years at the Berliner Bank AG in Berlin and Düsseldorf. After having completed his law degree in Berlin Jasper went to law school in New York where he acquired his postgraduate LL.M. degree and was admitted to the bar for the state of New York. In 2001 he started teaching IP-law as adjunct professor at New York University (SCPS) and continuously was engaged in the business of providing legal advice to US clients which lead to him opening a representative office for Buse Heberer Fromm in New York in 2005.

Charmaine Chia-Sander is the Office Manager for MillhouseIAG GmbH.  She holds a Bsc in Business Administration and has work experience in Singapore, Shanghai and Berlin.  Charmain is responsible for the administration as well as part of the financial and reporting obligations of MillhouseIAG GmbH, Deutsche Life Sciences GmbH along with its' portfolio companies.

Singapore

Philippe Paillart acts as a consultant to MillhouseIAG in Singapore and utilises his networks that he established as a CEO of the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS). He has previously co-invested privately with the EDB in Singapore.

Sharmila Gunasingham acts as a legal consultant to MillhouseIAG in Singapore. Ms Gunasingham is currently a partner of Harry Elias Partnership in Singapore. Sharmila has been involved in corporate law and international practice for over 23 years and has been President of the Financial Planning Association of Singapore. Sharmila provides MillhouseIAG with advice on the establishment of its proposed private equity investment vehicles in Singapore as well as links with prominent financial planning networks in Singapore.

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