Brett Kelly
BBus, CA, MTax, DipFS, RTA, JP
Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer
Brett is the Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of Kelly+Partners. He has more than 20 years commercial and professional accountancy experience, specialising in assisting private clients, private business owners and families.
Brett commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant with 5 years at Price Waterhouse, and then worked at 3 mid-sized accounting firms. In 2006, he founded Kelly+Partners with accounting businesses in North Sydney and the Central Coast, before building out the network to 20 businesses over 14 locations to date.
Brett is also the best-selling author of 4 books on life, business and wisdom.
Brendan Lyons
BSc, MAppFin, GradDipAppFin
Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer
Brendan joined Kelly+Partners in January 2017 to manage the internal IPO process before launching the corporate advisory division. He has over 20 years experience in equity markets, financial analysis, industry research and business management.
Previously, Brendan was co-Head of Australian Equities at Goldman Sachs for 4 years from 2012 to 2015. In total, he worked for Goldman Sachs / JBWere for 18 years, including 10 years as an equity partner. During this time, Brendan held various senior roles in Institutional Equities and Equities Research across Sydney, Melbourne, London and New York.
Before joining Kelly+Partners, Brendan consulted to Lithium Power International on their successful public listing on ASX.