Tony Porter

Tony has over 15 years experience in trading financial markets and managing investment portfolios at Citigroup/ Salomon Smith Barney, Hartleys and Pembroke Josephson Wright. His expertise covers a range of investment management areas, including large and small capitalisation companies and derivatives. He is a Director of two funds management companies, Porter Capital Management Pty Ltd and Xcelerator Capital Ltd.

Dr. Bruce Vanstone (Consultant)

Bruce is an Assistant Professor of Computational Finance and holds a PhD in Computational Finance. He is a regular academic publisher and presenter at the international level. He publishes on trading systems design and testing. He teaches these methodologies at University Masters / PhD level and has written the textbook for the course, titled “Designing Stockmarket Trading Systems”. His key skills are in the development, testing and benchmarking of quantitative trading and investment systems. He has thorough experience in applying statistics, mathematics, advanced technologies and computing to the development of investment processes and systems.

Lisa Rigby

Lisa has over 15 years experience in funds management working for State Street and as Senior Investment Manager for Ascalon, the boutique hedge fund incubator for St George Bank (now owned by Westpac). Lisa has significant experience in running funds management businesses and currently sits on a number of boards and executive committees within the Australian funds management arena.

Andre Marschke

Andre Marschke has over 12 years experience in financial markets trading and analysis. He was an adviser with Pembroke Josephson and Wright, Hartleys and Solomon Smith Barney where he held an ASX SEATS licence and a Level 2 accreditation in derivatives. He holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and a Graduate Diploma in Technical Analysis from the Securities Institute of Australia. Andre is also a founder and Director of Xcelerator Capital Limited and Scintilla Capital Pty Ltd.