B Com, CA, MBA (Otago)

Matt founded Waterman with fellow director Chris Marshall in 2004. He has more than 20 years of private equity experience in New Zealand. Prior to this he worked for a London based hedge fund and was in chartered accounting.

Matt is a member of Waterman’s Investment Committee.

He is currently a director of Fusion5, New Zealand Clinical Research, and PBT Group.

He was formerly a director of Canopy Healthcare Group, Provincial Education Group, Academic Colleges Group, Express Logistics Group, Guthrie Bowron and David Reid Homes.

He was also Chairman of the NZ Private Capital Association from 2014 to 2018.

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B Com, CA 

Chris founded Waterman with fellow director Matt Riley in 2004. He has more than 20 years of principal investment experience in New Zealand. Prior to this Chris worked in a management consulting role in London assisting mid-market businesses. 

Chris is a member of Waterman’s Investment Committee and is currently a director of Healthcare Holdings Limited and a non-executive director of Lewis Holdings Limited, an investment company associated with Sir David Levene.

He was formally a director of My Food Bag, Manuka Health, HealthLink, Guthrie Bowron, David Reid Homes and Robinson Industries.

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B Com, Dip Com (Auckland), CA 

Jacques Venter has principal investment, merger and acquisition and management consulting experience over a wide range of sectors.

Jacques has 10 years of private equity experience. Prior to joining Waterman, Jacques held roles at Fonterra, Jamieson Corporate Finance (London), BSkyB (London) and Deloitte where he gained extensive experience across domestic and international transactions, private equity, capital raising, corporate restructuring, advising publicly listed companies and providing strategic advice to high growth companies across a number of sectors.

Jacques is a member of Waterman’s Investment Committee.

Jacques is currently a director of Fusion5, New Zealand Clinical Research, and PBT Group and a former director of Canopy Healthcare Group, Provincial Education Group, Healthlink Group. Other previous Waterman portfolio companies that Jacques has been involved with include Academic Colleges Group and Manuka Health.

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BCom, LLB (University of Otago)

Andrew joined Waterman in early 2023.  Prior to joining Waterman, Andrew was Co-Head of Investment Banking at UBS New Zealand and has held roles at Lazard & Co. (London) and Deloitte Corporate Finance. 

Andrew has over 20 years’ experience advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, corporate restructuring, debt advisory and corporate finance.

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BBS 

Phil joined Waterman in 2009 and works with the portfolio companies to help develop and execute the strategic plan.

Phil has over 20 years’ experience working across a broad range of businesses to assist planning for and delivering growth. In addition to strategic planning, Phil can assist in operational projects and has designed, sourced and implemented solutions across the spectrum of business functions eg; end-to-end ERP solutions, PMO functions, CRM systems & Supply Chain.

Phil is currently a director of Farro Fresh. Phil was previously a director of MFB Group Ltd (My Food Bag) and Guthrie Bowron Ltd.

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B Com, Dip Grad (Otago), CA

David joined Waterman in 2019. David previously held investment banking and corporate finance roles with Deutsche Craigs, KPMG (Toronto) and PwC where he gained experience advising clients on M&A, capital raising, debt financing and strategy assignments.

David graduated from the University of Otago and is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

David is a director of Farro Fresh.

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B Com

Daniel joined Waterman in 2019 having previously worked in investment banking at Deutsche Craigs.

While at Deutsche Craigs, Daniel gained experience across mergers and acquisitions and public equity raisings, working across a wide range of sectors, including: energy, information technology, financial services, industrial and agriculture.

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B Com, B LLB

Ben joined Waterman in 2023, following two years in investment banking at Murray & Co.

While at Murray & Co, Ben gained experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and corporate advisory, working across a wide range of sectors including: FMCG, healthcare, financial services, industrials, transport and agriculture.

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Susannah joined Waterman in 2023. Prior to Waterman, she worked in the Corporate Finance team at KPMG.

During her time at KPMG, Susannah gained experience in valuations, modelling, and mergers and acquisition, working across a wide range of sectors including: renewable energy, telecommunications, FMCG, transport, and tourism.

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BBS, CA 

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BCom, CA 

Shan began her career as a graduate in the Business Advisory team at Grant Thornton, Auckland. Here she qualified as an accountant and worked with clients from a range of sectors. She then moved to London for ten years and held roles at BP and Morgan Stanley. Shan joined Waterman in 2019 as Finance Manager, where she supports Amanda in the CFO role.

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B Com, FCA 

Barrie Brown is an experienced and highly respected company director with a thorough knowledge of the New Zealand business environment. Barrie was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for 25 years where he was head of Business Advisory Services. Barrie has worked with a diverse range of medium sized and large businesses.

Barrie has held directorships in both public and private companies. He is currently a Non-executive Director of Waterman's Investment Committee (Chair of Fund 1 and 2), Chairman of the NEXT Foundation, a Director of Project Janszoon, Chairman of Hutton Wilson Nominees Limited, an independent Trustee for the W A Stevenson Memorial Trust, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand.   

MA (Law)(Cambridge)