David has over 17 years experience in the investment management industry. He recently held the position of Portfolio Manager at Metisq Capital, managing over $1 Billion in Emerging Markets equities.

He also held the position of Executive Director at Halidon Asset Management, managing fixed interest and hybrid assets. David’s work revolves heavily around quantitative investment and operational processes, with a focus on the development of trading, portfolio rebalancing and portfolio management systems.

In more recent years, David has been part of the core team that has been building the Portfolio Cloud product, his applied knowledge of the Agile methodology has provided the team with a foundation for fast growth and stability.

Leveraging his deep level of knowledge and experience in quant based portfolio management systems, David has lead the product development of some of Portfolio Clouds key features, such as Portfolio Rebalancing and Model Portfolios.

Matthew has over 20 years’ of experience as a Software Engineer across a vast range of industries and disciplines, and has been writing software since he was 12 years old. Matthew found his passion in writing code by reading C/C++ books at his local library, quickly progressing into writing complex 3D partical simulators, 3D modelling applications and low level networking applications. Matthew slowly shifted his focus professionally to application development and selling software online. By the time he was 17, Matthew had completed a 2 year diploma in Software Development and progressed into University at a young age where he was hired by Microsoft during his Bachelor of Science degree. Microsoft supported him to complete his degree and taught him all about technology as a business by engaging in the enterprise sales process with some of their key clients in the Education space.

At Microsoft's recommendation, Matthew moved to one of their highest performing gold partners where he spent the next 4 years building his skills as an application developer, a presenter, and a contributor to the technology community. Matthew continued his journey by starting his own Consulting company where he provided unique skills to a number of large, well known organisations. His entrapraneurial spirit led him into the financial services space, where he met his Co-Founders and began the Journey of Portfolio Cloud. Now the CTO of Portfolio Cloud, Matthew designs, architects and implements some of the most high performing, cutting edge technology in the industry using best practice cloud computing techniques. Matthew is an expert .NET Developer, AWS practitioner, and enjoys producing products that are usable, fast, and enjoyable for his cutomers.

Mark has over 20 years experience in Australia, UK and South Africa and has a history of scaling successful platform and advice businesses. He has held appointments as Head of Operations at Transact, the first UK open architecture platform which is now a $2b FTSE 250 company. He also held positions as CIO at Saunderson House and Operations Director at AXA Wealth Elevate platform. Mark has extensive experience in developing technology propositions and building scalable wealth management operations. Prior to this he was Managing Director at Confluent.net, a consultancy focussed on helping early stage SAAS platforms grow and expand.

John was previously CEO of Metisq Capital managing Emerging Market equities. He has held appointments as the Head of Equities and Head of Global Markets at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. While there he also managed large IT enterprises such as Australia’s largest retail stock broker CommSec. Prior to this, John was a Founding Partner and Executive Director of GMO Australia. He was also the founding Chief Executive of the Australian stock broking subsidiary of a large Japanese securities company Daiwa Securities. Before moving to Melbourne, for nine years John held academic faculty appointments at Yale University and the Australian National University. John holds a PhD in Econometrics.