Founders and Investment Team

  • Ian Warner and Rob Hand are the founding partners of Iron Pot Equities.
    • Ian has 35+ years direct involvement in the IT industry
    • Rob has 30+ years in direct investment roles in funds management
  • Both founders have meaningful investments in the strategy.
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Ian Warner

Director & Co-Founder
Ian has joint responsibility for all stock investment decisions and joint responsibility for client relations. He is Managing Director of ISW and has over 30 years of experience in the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) industry. Having commenced his career at IBM in 1986, he became State Manager in Tasmania before leaving to form ISW in 1996. Through ISW he has established strong partnerships with IBM and more recently with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and HCL. He has been a member of the IBM’s business partner ecosystem advisory council for ASIA Pacific for the last four years.
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Rob Hand

Director & Co-Founder
Rob has joint responsibility for all stock investment decisions, is responsible for day-to-day operations of the firm and has joint responsibility for client relations. He has an established career of over 30 years in funds management focused predominately on global equities. He commenced with 12 years at NAB’s funds management division investing in Australian, Asian and European equities as well as private equity and listed property trusts. His last position at NAB was as Head of Australian Equities. The following 12 years were as Executive Director of K2 Asset Management, a listed boutique Australian and Global equities funds management firm.