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. He has also led ISW to become a five-time winner of the Tasmanian Export Awards for ICT with offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and Europe with over 1,000,000 users of the ISW Kudos platform. Ian has been a board member on various advisory councils for government and industry, creating new ICT jobs, and supporting education and employment pathways for ICT graduates. Ian has also supported the ICT profession by representing Tasmanian ICT businesses, serving on the TASICT Board (twelve years as treasurer, two as president) and, as a senior member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), has been a judge for the ACS Digital Disruptors Awards. He has been made a Fellow of the ACS in recognition of his distinguished contribution to ICT in the field/s of software engineering, process engineering and as an ICT entrepreneur. Ian has an Batchelor of Engineering Mech/Elec from the University of Tasmania. He is also a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company Directors and Fellow of the Institute of Engineers.

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. This was followed by 6 years as a Non-Executive Director at K2. Since 2014 he has refined his investment approach through multiple global portfolios. He is an advisor to and member of the investment committees of Scotch College, Melbourne and Tennis Australia. He has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Tasmania, a Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Melbourne Business School.