Robert Lederer
BCom, GradDipAppFin
Advisory Board Member
Rob is an experienced angel investor and has invested in over 30 start-ups and private equity transactions through his family office, RTL Group Investments. His experience also includes acting as advisor and board member for numerous start-ups. Prior to this, Mr Lederer co-founded 1st Street Home Loans and worked as the Group General Manager of Primo Smallgoods up to its partial exit to Affinity Equity Partners, followed by its full trade sale exit to JBS.
Rob holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics from Macquarie University and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from Securities Institute of Australia.
Michael McConnell
BA(Econ), MBA
Advisory Board Member
From 1994 to 2008, served as a Managing Director of Shamrock Capital Advisors, a private investment company managing private equity/hedge funds for the Roy E. Disney family and institutional investors. Founded and led a $1.5bn hedge fund, was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and participated in 34 transactions totaling over $2.7bn in both public and private companies.
Over the past 26 years, has served as a non-executive director at 16 public and 8 private companies in the US, Israel, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Additionally, has served as CEO of Collectors Universe and interim CEO/Executive Chairman at Spark Networks, Redflex Limited and Adacel Technologies.
Mr. McConnell received his B.A. in economics from Harvard University in 1988 and his M.B.A degree (Shermet Scholar) from the Darden School of the University of Virginia in 1994.