Pengana Capital Group Limited (ASX:PCG)

David has over 25 years’ experience as a company director. He is Chairman of Tasman Sea Salt Pty Ltd and ASX listed H&G High Conviction Ltd (HCF). He is also  a non-executive director of Pengana Capital Limited (ASX: PCG), Pengana International Equities Limited (ASX: PIA), and the Redcape Hotel Group. David is a former director of EQT Holdings Ltd, Tassal Group Ltd and GrainCorp Ltd, and a former executive with Macquarie Bank Limited and its antecedent, Hill Samuel Australia. David is a member of the Council of Wollongong University. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Russel Pillemer co-founded Pengana in 2003. He has been the company’s Chief Executive Officer since inception.

Prior to founding Pengana, Russel worked in the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs in New York where he specialised in providing advice to funds management businesses. Before moving to New York, he was responsible for leading Goldman Sachs’ Australian Financial Institutions Group.

Russel was previously Chairman of Centric Wealth Group and a principal of Turnbull Pillemer Capital.

He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from the University of New South Wales.

Kevin Eley was appointed Non-Executive Director of Pengana Capital Group in 2017, having previously been Non-Executive Chairman of Hunter Hall International in May 2016, prior to the merger with Pengana Capital.

Kevin is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He has over 31 years’ experience in management, finance and investment and has worked for a major international accounting firm, two investment banks and was Chief Executive Officer of HGL Limited. Some of his current non-executive directorship include Equity Trustees Limited, Milton Corporation Limited and HGL Limited.

Jeremy Dunkel is a Non-Executive Director of Pengana, and a Director of Taurus Capital, a family office investment consultancy specialising in philanthropy.

His accounting and finance experience includes working for Chemical Bank, Chase Manhattan and Price Waterhouse. He is a director of Education Heritage Foundation, and the Moriah College Foundation, as well as the chair of Y2i.

Brendan is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Company (ASX: SOL) and was appointed to the role in October 2021 having previously been the Managing Director and CEO of Milton Corporation for 3 years.

Brendan is an experienced global equity markets executive with extensive business management and investing experience having spent 22 years with Citigroup in Sydney, Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo as a Managing Director. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and a Master’s Degree in Business Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Brendan is Member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a Member of the Institute of Company Directors.