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Directors & Management

Directors

Victor Cottren – Chairman & Non-Executive Independent Director

Michael Johnston - Non-Executive Independent Director

Warner Bastian - Non-Executive Independent Director

Adrian Hill - Joint Company Secretary

Amanda Gawne – Joint Company Secretary

Management

Mark Stewien - Fund Manager

Travis Butcher - Chief Financial Officer

Nicholas Anagnostou - Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Austock Property

Directors

Michael Johnstone BTRP, LS, AMP (Harvard)

Non-Executive Director

Michael was appointed on 22 December 2004. Michael has over 35 year’s global experience in real estate finance, investment and development. Michael is currently a non-executive director of Dennis Family Holdings and Dennis Family Homes, a non-executive director of APN Funds Management and a member of the Investment Committee of APN Development Fund, a non-executive director and Chairman of bWired Pty Ltd, a non-executive director and Chairman of State Equity Group. Michael is also a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Fund.

Warner Bastian, FAICD
Non-Executive Director

Warner was appointed on 1 March 2009.  Warner is the former Managing Director of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s insurance and finance services subsidiaries with over 50 years experience in insurance and financial services. Warner is Chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Fund and is also an alternate Director of Austock Life Limited.

Adrian Hill, BSc, LLB (Monash University)
Joint Company Secretary

Adrian joined Austock Group in 1998 and was appointed AEU’s Compliance Officer in 2004. Adrian has over 19 years experience gained from working in a large legal practice. Before joining Austock Group, Adrian was Partner at Deacons Graham & James (now Norton Rose). Adrian is Company Secretary and Compliance Officer to all the property funds within the Austock Group.

Amanda Gawne, BCom, LLB (Melbourne University) Grad Dip CSP, ACIS Joint Company Secretary

Amanda was appointed company secretary in December 2004, having joined Austock Group in April 2003. Amanda has over 13 years legal and company secretarial experience gained from working in private legal practice and large private and publicly listed organisations. Amanda is responsible for the company secretarial function for all companies within the Austock Group.

Management

Mark Stewien, BCom, LLB, Registered Legal Practitioner (Victoria)

Fund Manager

Mark joined Austock Property in 2009 and was appointed ASIF’s Fund Manager in November 2011. Mark has over 10 years legal  and commercial expertise in the property sector both in Australia and overseas. Prior to joining Austock Property, Mark was Senior Legal Counsel at Nakheel, a part of the Dubai World group and Senior Associate with Baker & McKenzie in Melbourne in the commercial real estate group.

Travis Butcher BAcc, CA, Grad Dip AFI SIA

Chief Financial Officer

Travis is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years financial experience in Australia and overseas including working in London as Financial Controller with Coller Capital, a leading global investor in private equity secondaries with committed capital in excess of US$6 billion and international group Apax Partners. He previously spent 7 years working in transaction and audit services at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Travis was previously Associate Director of Austock Private Equity.

Nicholas Anagnostou, BBus (Prop), AAPI

Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Austock Property

Nick joined Austock in 2005 as the Fund Manager for the Australian Education Trust. He is responsible for the performance and management of AET Fund including acquisition and disposal activity as well as key funding arrangements and asset management. He is also the Fund Manager for the Austock Childcare Fund. In addition, Nick is the Chief Operating Officer of the Austock Property Group and is responsible for all aspects of Austock Property, with specific focus on fund and asset management operations, investment sourcing, capital raisings, stakeholder management and transactions.  Nick has more than 21 years of experience in the Australian commercial property market. He holds a Bachelor of Business in Property (Distinction) and is an Associate of the Australian Property Institute.  He is a Certified Practicing Valuer and a Licensed Estate Agent.  Previously Nick was a Director of international real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.