Ellerston JAADE Private Assets Fund

Jamie Odell

has over 30 years of experience as Global CEO and Managing Director, successfully leading multinational organisations in the consumer goods, technology and gaming industries. He moved to Australia from the UK in 1992 as Managing Director of Lyons Tetley Australia, and then spent time in Singapore leading the duty free division of a premium wine and spirit organisation, Allied Domecq, across the Asia Pacific region. Jamie returned in 2000 to join the Foster’s Group in Melbourne, ultimately as Managing Director for their Australia and Asia Pacific regions across all categories, notably the beer division CUB. Prior to this, within Fosters, Jamie ran their global Wine business (now spun off as Treasury Wine Estates), which owned and operated vineyards and wineries in Australia, NZ, California and Italy.

At the beginning of 2009 Jamie was appointed CEO of Aristocrat, based in Sydney, and led a turnaround of that business, which is now a top 20 company within the Australian Stock Exchange and has a market capitalisation of around $20 billion. That turnaround was built upon a clear strategic focus on having the best technology, content and people, in addition to completing highly accretive M&A – entering adjacent segments including Digital and Server Based Gaming.

Since leaving Aristocrat in 2017, Jamie has focused on investments in the start-up technology sector, in both Australia and the US, and is currently Chairman of Mable (formerly Better Caring), a fast growing private technology platform which connects support workers and carers with people in the aged care and disability sectors.

David Leslie

Co-Portfolio Manager

David joined Ellerston Capital in 2005 and has over 23 years experience in technology and investment markets, as a researcher, analyst and investor. Most recently, David has been the Investment Director for the Ellerston Ventures Fund and Ellerston JAADE Private Asset Fund. In this role David leads the investment process, due diligence and negotiations with investees, as well as reporting to investors.

David is a non-executive director of Mable, Ansarada and Hipages.

Toni Korsanos

Toni has more than twenty years’ senior executive experience in financial and general management, strategy, mergers and acquisitions,
communications, technology and risk management.

Toni was the Chief Financial Officer & Head of Strategy (2009 to 2018) and Company Secretary (2011 to 2018) of Aristocrat Leisure Limited. Toni has experience running diverse businesses and led a broad portfolio including Finance, Strategy and Business Development, M&A, Investor Relations & Communications, IT, Global Supply Chain, and Human Resources. Toni also has significant global experience in customer driven organisations, across diverse geographies with a concentration in the US.

At Aristocrat Toni and Jamie partnered closely to turn around the business and was intricately involved in defining the strategy and the direction of the company. Strong growth was delivered through building a high-performance culture, attracting and retaining the world’s best talent, revamping the technology base, undertaking effective organic investment and accretive M&A, most notably in the social digital and US gaming markets.

Prior to working at Aristocrat, Toni held a number of finance and business development positions at Kellogg’s Australia and New Zealand, Goodman Fielder Limited and Coopers & Lybrand in Sydney. Since leaving Aristocrat in March 2018, has focused on investments in the technology sector as well as holds non-executive director positions in public Australian companies, Crown Resorts Limited, Ardent Leisure Group Limited and Webjet Limited.

Anthony Klok

Anthony has more than 30 years’ advisory and operational experience in diverse areas including legal, corporate advisory, media and technology and internet businesses. Anthony is an experienced lawyer and senior executive with considerable experience in sourcing, negotiating and investing in online and technology companies.

Current and previous board positions include Friendsurance International, Friendsurance Australia, Genero (alternate), Betfair Australia, Zoom2U, Temando, Service Seeking, Open Agent, Seek, Fox Sports, Carsales, Seek, NineMSN, Ticketek, Sydney SuperDome, Wizard and TMS.

Justin Diddams

Justin joined Ellerston as a Senior Investment Analyst in December 2017 and has over 18 years of experience in Financial Services. Prior to joining Ellerston, Justin was the Chief Financial Officer of Cover Genius, a leading and disruptive global tech insurance platform.

Prior to joining Cover Genius, Justin was a Director at Citigroup for six years, where he was the head of research for Telecommunications, Media and Technology across Australia and New Zealand. Before joining Citigroup, Justin spent four years as an Equity Research Analyst at ABN Amro in London where he covered Media and Entertainment companies throughout Europe. Justin commenced his career as an accountant at EY.