The M&A Team

Ross Goldstein

Perth

Managing Director WA, Group Director

Ross has been involved with Mergers & Acquisitions for 20 years.  He had previously held senior positions in sales and marketing with a number of world leading companies and worked out of the UK, South Africa and Australia. 
Following accounting and legal studies, Ross started one of Australia’s largest business broking operations that he later sold to a public listed company. 
Ross has attended conferences around the world on subjects that impact upon this industry and has been a regular lecturer and trainer on the subject.

ross at mergers dot com dot au

Jeff Roberts

Perth

Director WA, Group Director - B.Bus, G. Cert. App Fin (Sec Inst), CPA

Jeff is a member of CPA Australia, has a Bachelor of Business Degree and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Finance and Investment. 
He has a strong background in commerce including around 16 years in senior Accounting, Finance and Company Secretarial positions in a number of public listed companies.  These were involved in mining, exploration, resources services, merchant banking, stockbroking, insurance broking, R&D and manufacturing. 
Jeff has a great deal of experience in public company takeovers and large business sales and acquisitions, and valuations across a wide range of industries. 
Jeff has been with Mergers & Acquisitions for 10 years and specialises in large business sales across all industries.

jeff at mergers dot com dot au

Todd Grover

Perth

Senior Consultant - B.Com. CA

Todd holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and, during his time with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
After a corporate role with an ASX listed entity, Todd moved to the UK for four years.  During his time in London he held key reporting positions with some of the world’s most prestigious companies including Diageo and Warner Music before moving into a Merchant bank.  During his time with the bank, Todd was instrumental in the sale process of the bank to a competitor and post transaction and was tasked with improving the performance of a key under-performing division.
After relocating back to Western Australia and the completion of a project role with Rio Tinto, Todd joined Mergers & Acquisitions.

todd at mergers dot com dot au

Tim Wall

Perth

Senior Consultant - B.Com. CA

Tim completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at UWA before spending 3 years working in Corporate Services with the Horwath Group (now BDO) where he was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants (CA).
Post obtaining his CA Tim moved to London where he spent 6 months with Credit Suisse First Boston before performing financial management roles for a number of international companies.
In 2004 Tim spent some time back in Perth, during which time he performed a 3-month consultancy role with Grange Consulting in West Perth before returning to the UK.
Upon his return to the UK Tim initially performed a number of Company Secretarial roles for AIM listed companies before playing a variety of roles in the facilitation of numerous listings. This included deal structuring, preparation of admission documents, capital raisings, interim directorship and executive directorship.
In 2007 Tim returned to Australia to pursue opportunities with emerging companies who had the potential to be developed to the point of a listing or trade sale.  His roles over this time included Director, Business Development and Consultancy roles with clients across diversified industry sectors including Clean Technology, Manufacturing, Mining Services, Technology and Automotive.
Tim’s role at Mergers & Acquisitions is specialising in sourcing and assessing businesses in the $5 to $100+ million price range and matching them to the acquisition requirements of local, national and international companies and private equity firms.

tim at mergers dot com dot au

Michael Pugh

Perth

Senior Consultant

Michael has over 20 years experience in the Financial Services sector. He has previously run his own successful company  for a period of 6 years before selling and taking up senior positions with major companies, including Vice-President at Merrill Lynch (Private) Australia Ltd as well as being part of the management buy-out team of Hartleys Ltd, one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious stockbroking firms.

michael at mergers dot com dot au

Ray Prentice

Perth

Senior Consultant - B.Bus. CPA

Ray Prentice is a Certified Practising Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Degree. 
He has extensive experience in the management of privately owned business with more than 27 years experience, with 18 years as a partner, in public accounting practices in Perth and Sydney.  
Ray’s business experience includes corporate restructuring, financing, succession planning and business exit strategy, business development, business acquisitions and disposals spanning a wide range of industries including manufacturing, transport, engineering, wholesale and distribution and services.  

ray at mergers dot com dot au

Martin Booth

Perth

Senior Consultant

For the past 15 years Martin has been negotiating deals with Mergers & Acquisitions valued up to $20 million. 
Martin has a background in accounting and auditing and spent eight years working on Projects in South East Asia whilst at the same time maintaining interests in medium-sized businesses in Australia. 
Martin travels to Asia frequently matching opportunities and servicing existing clients.

martin at mergers dot com dot au

Melanie Muirhead-White

Perth

Business Analyst - B.Com. CA

Melanie holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Curtin University of Technology and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
Melanie commenced her career in public practice with PKF Chartered Accountants in their Tax and Business Advisory division. During this time she qualified as a Chartered Accountant and obtained experience across a diverse range of industries including manufacturing, engineering, transport and retail. Subsequently, Melanie gained valuable international exposure in the UK holding senior roles with Shell International and CDC Group plc, a fund of funds specialising in emerging markets.
On returning to Australia, Melanie held the position of Financial Controller with ASX listed company Grange Resources Limited before commencing with Mergers & Acquisitions.

melanie at mergers dot com dot au

Robin Taylor

Sydney

Managing Director NSW - BA (Econ)

Robin has held senior positions as an Accountant, Financial Controller, Managing Director and Executive Vice President working in NZ, Australia, UK, Belgium, France and the USA. These positions included frequent involvement in various other European countries as well as Japan.  
His extensive management experience spans 30 years with many leading public companies including: GEC, Comeng, ANI and Evans Deakin. During that time Robin was personally involved in a considerable number of acquisitions covering a broad spread of industries including medical, engineering, industrial, service, distribution, and manufacturing.

robin at mergers dot com dot au

Frank Giugni

Sydney

Senior Consultant - B. Bus, Grad Dip Mgt, FCPA

Frank is a finance professional with a chartered background and extensive manufacturing sector experience gained in several management roles with James Hardie Industries Limited.  
He has held various key operational management positions with profit centre responsibility for the UK-based Rentokil-Initial plc Group, as well as head of their local merger and acquisition activities. His involvement included trouble-shooting activities for poorly-performing areas of their business. 
More recently, Frank headed up a business advisory firm which focussed on implementing profit growth strategies for stalled businesses, many of which used the acquisition and disposal route to develop and strengthen their trading operations.  
He is a Fellow of CPA Australia.  

frank dot g at mergers dot com dot au

Adrian Thyne

Sydney

Senior Consultant - B. Com (Hons), Grad Dip Finance, CA

Adrian commenced his career at a “Big 4” accounting firm where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked for 10 years in the Corporate Finance Division.
Adrian specialised in the valuation of privately-held companies, across a broad range of industries including airports, electricity network companies, manufacturing, agri-business and bio-tech, construction, tourism and technology. During this time he was involved in the sale of a number of private companies.
Adrian then spent five years in the UK working for large listed companies - Whitbread Group, Barclays Bank and Anglo American Mining - undertaking a range of strategy and performance improvement roles.
Following his UK experience, Adrian worked as a financial consultant for companies such as Sydney Airport Corporation and Westpac Bank, prior to joining Mergers & Acquisitions.

adrian at mergers dot com dot au

Ian Jensen

Brisbane

Managing Director QLD - FCA

Ian is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Directors.
He has had broad experience in small to medium businesses over a period of 30 years. This experience has been in public practice and as a Public Company Executive Director.
He was a partner in the Brisbane office of Ernst & Young until 1987 and then spent 7 years as an Executive Director of Power Brewing Ltd, responsible for corporate finance and strategy. In both these roles he had extensive experience in the Sale and Acquisition of businesses and corporations.
He subsequently spent a further 6 years in practice as a corporate advisor involving strategic advice, due diligence reviews, finance restructuring and capital formation up until joining Mergers & Acquisitions.

ian at mergers dot com dot au

Bill Lumchee

Brisbane

Senior Consultant

Bill is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD), the Australian Marketing Institute (AMAMI), and the Australian Institute of Management (AFAIM).
He has had a varied banking career spanning 24 years in various managerial positions which culminated as a Regional Lending Manager.
In more recent years he held the positions of General Manager and then Managing Diector of Sargent Truck Leasing.
Bill joined the team at Mergers & Acquisitions in 2007.

bill at mergers dot com dot au