James has 25 years’ experience in the Auckland Property Finance market and has financed a large percentage of the major developments during this time – including thousands of apartments, houses and sections, hundreds of commercial buildings and a large number of land projects. He has sourced, settled and managed in excess of $5 billion worth of finance transactions for many of Auckland’s most successful property identities.

Simon’s background is in Equities Investment Management and Treasury functions. He is a charter holder of the US-based CFA Institute and has broad capital markets experience including investment analysis and valuation and portfolio management. Simon co-founded Brook Asset Management in 2002 which, by 2008, was NZ's largest boutique asset management company.

Culum Manson has spent the last 25 years in the property development business and is Commercial Director of Manson TCLM. He has negotiated the leasing deals in many large office developments in Auckland, including Spark, General Electric, Watercare, AA Insurance, Simpson Grierson, BDO, Lumley Finance, NZME, Meredith Connell, Mercury Energy, Vector and BNZ. To date, he has completed over $3 billion of commercial property transactions.

Ricky is a highly respected corporate, institutional and property banker with over 25 years of senior team leadership and lending transaction experience plus an extensive New Zealand network. Ricky has strong credit and operational risk management, credit risk analysis and technical lending product knowledge.