Robert Swift
CEO, BSc, CFA

Robert has worked in the investment industry for 30 years and has held senior portfolio manager and chief investment officer positions at Putnam in Boston and BTIM (ex Bankers Trust) in Australia. He co-founded and managed a market neutral hedge fund in Boston, USA, before returning to Australia in 2007. His area of investment expertise is the Asia Pacific region.

Marcus Burns
Co-Founder and CIO, BA/LLB, Grad dip in Applied Finance (SIA)

Marcus started his career as a financial analyst at Procter & Gamble. He joined Schroder Investment Management in 1997, spending 4 years in Sydney before transferring to Schroders London in 2001, where he was a Pan European analyst until 2002. In 2002 he joined Citigroup Securities as a specialist salesman on the consumer sector. Marcus was consistently ranked by various sellside surveys at the top of his field. In 2005 Marcus joined Angus at GLG Partners to co-run the GLG Global Consumer fund until April 2008. Marcus was also recognised by Institutional Investor Magazine in 2007 with "Best of the Buyside for Beverages, Household & Personal Care and Tobacco". 

Angus Forbes
Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, B.Ec(hons), MBA, IIMR

Angus spent 20 years in London working with James Capel, Merrill Lynch and GLG Partners. At Merrill Lynch he led Scottish Institutional sales and then Hedge fund sales. Angus ran European research at GLG Partners before managing the Global Consumer fund 2003-07, with returns of 20% p.a. In mid 2007 Angus left to be the inaugural Project Director of the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project at Clarence house in London. Angus was also Chairman of Burgopak (2002-07), a packaging firm ranked 6th fastest growing company in Britain in 2008.

Madeleine Beaumont
Portfolio Manager, B.Ag(hons), CFA

Madeleine began her career at Salomon Brothers before moving to SBC Warburg where she worked as an equity analyst on food and retail sectors. Madeleine joined the buyside with UBS Asset Management in Sydney where she covered media, food and retail before moving to London in 1999. In London Madeleine spent 4 years as a Pan European sector analyst for SEB Asset Management. Madeleine then joined M&G (Prudential) where she was the head of European research and managed a European retail fund.

Hamish Burns
Operations Manager, B.Sc (hons), Cert of Acctg

Hamish is responsible for managing Natural Capital's back office operations. He has 5 year of accounting experience and has previously worked in the renewable energy and property development sectors.  Hamish brings his technical skills to enhance the team's understanding of science based industries. 

Claud Chaaya
Investment Analyst, B.Com (Fin, Comp & Act)/LLB

Claud has come from an analyst background in property and equities, with over 4 years experience in financial modelling.  His role in the company is to assist the CIO in stock research and analysis.  His commerce majors from Macquarie University include: Finance, Computing Science and Actuarial Studies, coupled with a Law degree, which go a great way in adding to the team's understanding of these industries. 

Mark Whittaker
Representative in London

Previously Managing Director of UBS Investment Bank in London, Mark has over 15 years experience in the European and US financial markets having also worked at James Capel and Bankers Trust. Mark has helped to raise growth capital from both private clients and institutions for many companies in a range of sectors.