Will joined Gresham in 2020 and is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the Gresham Distribution Partners business.

He is primarily focused on the origination of new funds management capital raising mandates (both international and domestic), new boutique funds management business incubation opportunities and leading the capital raising activities across the Australian and New Zealand investor and asset consultant communities.

Whilst at Gresham, Will has led the new manager origination, structuring and capital raising of various Australia Feeder Fund products for leading global funds management groups including Greenspring Associates, StepStone, Blackstone and Antin Infrastructure Partners.

Will has over 18 years' finance and funds management experience having worked in both Sydney and London in both Funds investment and Funds sell-side roles and has compiled an extensive senior level institutional capital raising experience across most asset classes (with an emphasis on alternatives).

Will has successfully led various capital raising assignments for both large-scale institutional fund managers as well as newer funds management boutiques across various jurisdictions including Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, mainland Europe & the Nordic markets.

Prior to joining Gresham, Will was a Distribution Director and the Head of Institutional and Family Office at Channel Capital, a leading Australian house of boutique funds management business which represents global and domestic funds management businesses (approx. A$35b in client assets serviced as at March 2024).

At Channel Capital, Will was involved with the origination of new funds management business clients and successfully led various institutional (including dialogue with asset consultants) & family office capital raising campaigns across Channel’s global and domestic fund manager line-up, which included fixed income, private debt, global renewable infrastructure, agriculture, and alternative equities strategies.

Prior to this, Will was a Business Development Director at Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) (approx. A$100 billion in Funds Under Management as at March 2024) where he was responsible for business development activities across QIC’s full range of funds and investment capabilities (i.e. fixed income, global multi-asset, infrastructure, private equity and real estate) covering institutional clients and asset consultants across both Australia and New Zealand.

Will has built an extensive range of key relationships with many of Australia and New Zealand’s leading institutional, family office, private wealth investors and asset consultants.

Will is a member of the Gresham Distribution Partners Investment Committee.

Will has a combined Commerce & Law Degree from Bond University in Queensland (2003), a Graduate Diploma in Legal Training from the NSW College of Law (2004) and was admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New Wales (2005). Will also holds the Level 3 Certificate in Investments (Investment Management) from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (the CISI) in London (2010).

Steve joined Gresham in August 2024 and is responsible for originating new funds management mandates and capital raising initiatives across key investor segments within the Australian wholesale market.

Steve has over 20 years’ experience in finance, funds management and wholesale distribution roles across private and public markets. Steve has held senior distribution and strategic roles across large, diversified asset managers and boutique funds management businesses.

Prior to joining Gresham, Steve was Head of Distribution at Fortitude Investment Partners, a lower mid-market private equity manager. At Fortitude Investment Partners, Steve led various successful wholesale capital raisings across family offices, wealth advisory, and high-net-worth investors for single asset, closed-end private equity funds.

Prior to Fortitude, Steve held several roles at AMP Capital (AMPC) over a 15-year tenure. As Head of Distribution, Steve led the Australian distribution team focused on key strategic priorities and capital raising initiatives for AMPC’s private markets capability across the wholesale market (including multi managers, family offices, asset consultants, and wealth advisory).

Steve was also the Head of Global Investment Specialists and led the execution and delivery of commercial outcomes for AMPC’s public market capabilities across most asset classes including equities, fixed income, property, infrastructure and multi asset funds.

Steve has built extensive knowledge across public and private market asset classes and has developed key relationships across the Australian wholesale investor channels including asset consultants, family offices and wealth advisory.

Steve holds an Executive M.B.A (with Distinction), Bachelor of Business (Economics & Finance) and Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning.

Charles is Managing Director of Gresham.  He is active across our advisory and investing businesses.

He has advised Gresham clients across a range of transactions including Woodside on its merger with BHP Petroleum, Newcrest Mining on its sale to Newmont Corporation, Platinum Equity on their acquisition of Jeld-Wen Australia, Commonwealth Bank on the sale of Equigroup, Bank of Queensland on the acquisition of Investec Bank Australia, Platinum Equity on their acquisition of a majority stake in Sensis from Telstra, Woodside on the partial unwind of the Shell shareholding, Resimac on the acquisition of RHG’s loan book, DUET on their internalisation of management from AMP and Macquarie and sale to CKI, KKR on the acquisition of Pepper Group, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the asset swap of a stake in Sydney Airport for interests in Brussels and Copenhagen Airports and advising Telstra’s Board on negotiations with the Australian Government and NBN Co.

Prior to joining Gresham, Charles was a Managing Director with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. He had a significant role in transactions for clients including News Corporation, Time Warner, Nielsen, EMC Corporation, Intergraph, Philips, Dow Jones, and Warner Music.

Charles’ transaction experience spans across M&A and financings with a cumulative value of in excess of US$150 billion. Prior to Goldman, Sachs & Co., Charles worked for Rio Tinto at its aluminium operations, Comalco, in engineering and business development roles.

Charles holds Bachelor degrees in Engineering and Commerce from the University of Sydney where he was a Chancellor’s Scholar, a Masters degree in Information Technology from Deakin University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Charles is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Charles is a Chairman of Musica Viva Australia. He was previously Chapter Chair of YPO Sydney and President of the Harvard Club of Australia.

Neville is Managing Director and Co-Head of Gresham's Corporate Advisory business.

Neville has over 30 years experience in corporate advisory activities and has provided advice to leading Australian and international companies in most industry sectors, including resources, agribusiness, wealth management, finance and banking, insurance, property, retail, health care, utilities and information technology.
These transactions include public markets transactions such as hostile and recommended takeover offers and defences and takeovers and mergers by scheme of arrangement; private treaty transactions such as business and asset divestments and acquisitions; and equity and debt capital raisings.

Recent examples of public markets transactions that Neville has led include Wesfarmers acquisition of Coles Group Limited, the demerger of Deterra by Iluka, Centennial Coal's acquisition of Austral Coal, PMP's merger with IPMG, Wesfarmers acquisition of API Limited and Silk Laser Clinics Limited, the sale of Stargames Limited to Shufflemaster Inc., and the takeover defence for Ridley Corporation Limited and the demerger of Coles Group Limited. In private treaty transactions, Neville has led teams advising on the divestment of Millers Self Storage by Security Capital European Realty, the divestment of Premier Coal, the divestment of the OAMPs and Crombie Lockwood insurance broking business to AJ Gallagher, the divestment of the Lumley and WFI insurance underwriting businesses to IAG Limited, the divestment of Witchery Group, the divestment of Active Utilities and Ramsay Health Care’s acquisition of Affinity Health. Neville has also provided advice on a number of significant fund raising transactions including the $5.1 billion recapitalisation of Prime Infrastructure, the $1.2bn EPA loan facility for Iluka, the $200 million hybrid raising for Valad Property Group and the $2.6 billion and $4.6 billion rights issues for Wesfarmers.

Prior to joining Gresham Partners, Neville was with Deloitte Haskins and Sells.

Neville completed a Bachelor of Economics at the University of South Australia and is also a graduate of the Executive Program run by Stanford University in conjunction with the National University of Singapore.

Laura is Chief Financial Officer and joined Gresham in 2021.

Laura is responsible for the finance and administration functions for Gresham Partners Group and its specialist funds. Prior to joining Gresham, Laura had been Head of Finance at MLC Wealth and Senior Manager Accounting Policy at NAB. Laura has extensive financial services experience with roles in Sydney and London and started her career with Ernst & Young.

Laura completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) at Sydney University, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Lauren is the Chief Business Officer and General Counsel, and oversees the legal, compliance and operational functions of the Gresham Partners Group.

Prior to joining Gresham, Lauren was a partner in the corporate markets practice of global law firm Baker McKenzie (2015-2019) and has also worked in leading transactional practices at Herbert Smith Freehills (2012-2015) and King & Wood Mallesons (1999-2004). Lauren has extensive investment banking experience, having held the roles of associate general counsel of J.P. Morgan Chase, and Executive Director in J.P. Morgan’s equity capital markets team (2004-2012). Throughout her career, Lauren has acted on a wide variety of corporate finance, capital markets and public and private M&A transactions for a broad range of domestic and international clients, including several of Australia’s leading ASX100 companies, global investment banks and leading private equity firms.

Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University, a Bachelor of Laws (Honours Class I) from the University of Sydney and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Georgia joined Gresham’s legal department as Senior Counsel in 2021 and provides legal, compliance and governance support to the Gresham Group.

Prior to this, Georgia was a solicitor in the Corporate and Funds practice at Herbert Smith Freehills and advised on a broad range of corporate transactions, funds management, mergers and acquisitions and other investment structures. Georgia’s experience also includes a period spent offshore as in house counsel in the energy technology sector, where she provided legal oversight of the business’s operations in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, USA, Czech Republic and Australia.
Georgia brings an extensive range of capabilities to the Gresham Funds Management businesses – spanning the establishment of, investment in, and transactions across, a broad range of fund structures.

Georgia holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours Class I), Political Science and Government from the University of Tasmania.
Georgia is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and is entered on the Register of Practitioners of the High Court of Australia.

Georgina joined the Gresham Distribution Partners Team as a Fund Operations Associate in July 2024. Prior to joining Gresham, she worked at Mainstream (now Apex Group), a leading fund administration and custody service provider for over 4 years. Whilst at Apex, Georginia initially gained experience within in the registry operations team as a Portfolio Administrator and later as a team leader and Client Relationship Associate in the client relationship and business development teams. With experience overseeing day-to-day operational activities across various fund and investment entities, new fund setups, and fund transitions, Georgina has a strong technical understanding across fund administration and custody processes.

Georgina is currently studying for a combine Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Accounting, Economics and German at the University of Technology Sydney.