Our Mosaic Private Team

Investment Committee

• Tony Woods

  Chairman & Strategic Risk Advisor

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  Tony has over three decades of experience in senior executive banking roles. Prior roles include Group General Manager Oversight (Global) and Group General Manager - Corporate and Specialised Banking Risk at NAB, holding a personal credit sign off of $400m and a Group Credit Committee member, decisioning the bank’s largest deals globally. He was also Head of Commercial, Business and Private Banking Credit at ANZ. He led compliance, risk/oversight, and legal and credit decisioning functions in these roles. In his latest role, he was Chief Risk officer at one of Australia’s largest private credit funds, MaxCap.

• Ben White

  Investment Committee

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  Ben is a senior lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and has worked for major international law firms in Melbourne and London, including King & Wood Mallesons and Linklaters, where he specialised in property finance. He also worked for a law firm in the Cayman Islands where he specialised in hedge fund and private equity fund formation and governance. In previous roles Ben was the Director of Legal for Intertrust Group, a Euronext listed financial services business and General Counsel at one of Australia’s largest private credit investment managers, MaxCap.

• Brad Harris

  Investment Committee (Co-Founder)

   

  Brad has extensive fund management and investment experience. He sits on four Investment Committees that each manage nine-figure investment portfolios. He is the founder of two fund management businesses and has overseen the implementation of multiple fund structures, deal structures, investment, compliance, and governance initiatives.
  
  He is CEO and Chairman of Harris Capital, a leading Australian family office with extensive asset and investment management experience and a $25m cornerstone investment in the Mosaic Capital Fund.
  
  Brad sits on four charitable boards, including The Epworth Medical Foundation, Hawthorn Football Club Foundation and Harris Family Foundation.
  

• David Cowen BCom (Eco)

  Managing Director (Co-Founder)

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  David founded a finance broking company at 22 years old while completing an Economics degree at Monash University, growing the business from one client to thousands. Over those 15 years, he originated, funded, and managed ~$2.5 billion of residential, commercial, business, and private credit transactions and developed deep relationships with trusted bank and non-bank funding partners.
  
  After managing the Harris family’s private credit investments since 2018, they formalised the partnership and co-founded Mosaic Private. As Managing Director, David is responsible for funds management, capital raising, investment execution and business strategy.
  

Advisory Team

• Geoff Harris

  IC Advisor

   

  Geoff is a co-founder of Flight Centre, one of the world’s largest travel businesses with operations in 25 countries. He is an experienced private equity and private credit investor, including being the first investor in Boost Juice, assisting its growth from 4 stores to over 200 stores. He has extensive philanthropic interests in developing affordable housing and supporting disadvantaged youth, including social enterprises StrEAT and Reach Youth.

• Craig Ferguson

  IC Macroeconomic Advisor

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  Craig has over 30 years of experience in economic research, forecasting and commentary. After working at JP Morgan and ANZ Investment Bank, he started Antipodean Capital in 2006, which has become a world-class domestic and global focussed economic research and forecasting firm.
  
  In 2022, Craig joined Mosaic Private as our Macroeconomic Advisor, attending the Investment Committee and providing daily macroeconomic updates to the team.

• Kim Dema

  Chief Financial Officer

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  Kim is an Accountant with over 15 years of experience in the finance, banking and investment sectors, with recent roles working for large private family offices. She holds a Masters in Commerce and professional accounting and an Executive MBA. She has held multiple Board and Committee positions as Treasurer in the not-for-profit sector.

• Pauline Madden

  Chief People Officer

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  Pauline’s career in human resources has spanned many years, encompassing the public and private sectors, large corporates, SMEs and startups, and consulting for more than a decade.
  
  She was an inaugural Officeworks team member, participating in the pre-opening and launch. Over five years, she worked in-store operational and head office human resource roles.
  
  Beyond her professional pursuits, Pauline is committed to supporting families navigating the challenging journey of coping with the loss of a child or sibling as a volunteer with The Compassionate Friends.
  
  Pauline oversees recruitment as well as people and culture for Mosaic Private.
  

Investment Team

• Carla Vinci

  Associate Director – Portfolio Investment

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  Carla is a qualified valuer and solicitor with over ten years of experience working in various capacities across the real estate sector. After obtaining her valuation qualification (CPV) while working at Savills, she transitioned to law as a solicitor at Maddocks and King & Wood Mallesons. Her latest role marked her move into the property investment sector as an Acquisitions and Investment analyst for an internationally owned developer/financier. She holds a master’s degree in urban planning and property (valuations) from the University of Melbourne and a Juris Doctor degree from Monash University.

• Melissa Cannon

  Relationship Director

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  Melissa has worked in the finance industry for 16 years, having held executive positions in Business Banking at NAB and CBA and has been the custodian of a $6 billion lending and deposit book. She also worked for Bank of Ireland, managing property developer portfolios during the GFC.

• Delano Schokman

  Investment Manager

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  Delano contributes over 15 years of valuable financial services expertise to the team, with extensive experience in business and corporate banking at NAB and CBA. Transitioning to the private credit market, he comprehensively understands investments and risk management. Delano focuses on borrower acquisition and portfolio management and has successfully funded numerous mid-market property investment transactions, including residential, commercial, and industrial projects. He holds a Bachelor of Business and Economics, Accounting from Monash University and is an accredited Certificate IV Mortgage Broker.

• Emily Woods

  Investor Relations and Marketing Manager

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  Emily has over ten years of marketing and brand experience cultivating and leading strategies globally for multinational corporations and domestically for renowned companies, including a significant tenure with the Wilson family at Reece Plumbing and, most recently, at Care for Kids. Combining her extensive industry experience in bespoke communications, digital efficiencies, and exclusive events with a passion for creating exceptional experiences for all stakeholders, Emily will deepen relationships with our investor network, wealth advisors and trusted partners.