Our people represent a stimulating mix of youth and experience. Many have backgrounds outside of the financial sector while others are seasoned securities and equities professionals whose expertise has been honed through several market cycles. All are unique individuals who share the energy and creativity that defines the Blue Ocean Equities culture.
Adam Stratton
Adam has over 25 years of equity market experience with a range of operational and management roles in trading, hedge fund sales and risk management. He was…
Andy McWilliam
Andy brings over 25 years of extensive financial markets experience to Blue Ocean. In that time, his roles have encompassed operations, middle-office, risk, trading and sales across…
Ben Parisek
Ben is our Operations Manager, with over 10 years back office experience in various roles for employers such as Macquarie, HSBC and Pershing Securities. He completed a…
Brent Potts
Former Vice Chairman of the Sydney Stock Exchange and board member of the Australian Stock Exchange. He was senior partner of the stockbroking firm Potts West Trumbull…
Carlos Crowley Vazquez
Carlos has over 15 years of experience in corporate, project and structured finance focusing on natural resource companies, resource related infrastructure and services. He joined Blue Ocean…
David O’Halloran
David was an Executive Director of County NatWest Securities and then a founding director of Southern Cross Equities. David comes to Blue Ocean Equities with more than…
Doc Cromme
Doc brings with him almost 30 years of financial market experience. Starting in his native, South Africa, Doc was a partner of Simpson McKie a large stockbroking…
Gavin Todd
Gavin has over 27 years of experience in equity markets having worked most recently at EL&C Baillieu as an Equity Partner on the Institutional Equities desk for…
Josie Nicol
Josie joined Blue Ocean Equities in 2014 as the assistant to the Institutional Dealing team and Research. She previously worked at Southern Cross Equities and Morgan Stanley…
Mathan Somasundaram
Mathan has over 20 years’ experience in the finance industry. Mathan has worked extensively in all parts of the finance sector at County NatWest, Citi, LIM, Southern…
Matthew Keyte
Matthew joined Blue Ocean Equities in 2021. Prior to joining Blue Ocean, Matthew worked at Morgans Financial across the Corporate Actions and Research Teams. He has experience…
Nicholas O’shea
Nicholas has been researching equities for a number of years. Prior to joining Blue Ocean Equities, Nicholas worked at Westpac Banking Corporation focusing on group finance and…
Peter Gray
Peter Gray has gained extensive experience over the past 35 years in various equity capital and debt markets. He previously worked in various senior corporate positions at…
Richard Granger
Richard has been involved in stockbroking for over 35 years. He has worked in institutional dealing and corporate advisory, specialising in asset sales and acquisitions as well…
Sebastian Weitmann
Sebastian has been with Blue Ocean Equities since 2016, working in the corporate finance team. Prior to joining Blue Ocean Equities, Sebastian was previously an investment banking…
Stuart Turner
Stuart is an Equities Analyst with over twenty years experience in equities markets. In previous roles, Stuart was Head of Research at ANZ LINWAR Securities and a…
Thomas Brunton
Thomas is an Equity Analyst with over ten years’ experience. Prior to joining Blue Ocean Equities, Thomas has gained a wide range of experience in equity research,…
