DIGIT ADVISORY - Key Persons


Brown John

Prior to founding Digit, John was a member of Babcock & Brown's Corporate & Structured Finance team in Sydney which specialised in the origination, structuring, participating in, and management of equity and debt investments across multiple sectors. John was responsible for the development, construction and review of complex deal and fund models as well as managing the financial aspects of transactions. Prior to Babcock and Brown John was a senior member of the Ernst and Young Financial Modelling Group in both London and Sydney. He was responsible for the execution, delivery and team management of financial modelling and reviewing assignments across all deals types and industries. John spent the first 6 years of his career at Rolls-Royce Plc in the Power and Aerospace divisions working in various project finance, business planning and M&A teams. John has over 20 years of dedicated financial modelling experience across multiple disciplines and in a wide range of industry sectors.

John Stroud - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Prior to founding Digit, John was a member of Babcock & Brown's Corporate & Structured Finance team in Sydney which specialised in the origination,...

Kevin Oakey - Founder, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Managing Director
Kevin is the co-founder of Digit. Prior to joining Digit, Kevin was a member of Babcock & Brown's Corporate & Structured Finance and Infrastructure teams in Sydney for eight years. There he worked on a large range of principal investment transactions including creating and listing funds, M&A, securitisations, film financing, rail and aircraft leasing and mining. He has infrastructure expertise in rail, power stations, gas pipelines, biodiesel plants and hospitals. More recently Kevin developed the corporate model for the windup of Babcock & Brown. Prior to Babcock & Brown Kevin worked in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Project Finance team and in the Actuarial Benefit Services team at Towers Perrin. Kevin has over 20 years of financial modelling experience.