AGIO GLOBAL - Key Persons


Graham Frank

Job Titles:
  • Board Adviser
Graham was until recently a partner of Ernst & Young where he held a number of leadership positions including the Head of Tax for Oceania (6 years) and Deputy Leader of Tax for Asia Pacific (10 Years). During that time Graham continued to be an adviser to a few large Australian private groups and multi nationals operating in Asia and Oceania. He is a Chartered Accountant.

James Dean - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founding Director
Over 30 years of finance industry experience, 25 of those as a direct professional investor in a diverse range of projects. After the October 1987 Black Tuesday (Monday USA) stock market crash and disillusioned by fund manager performances, James embarked on developing his own due diligence procedures. From his first development project, an apartment complex, he was motivated to build things that will see others benefit from his activity for decades afterwards. His motivation remains to find projects that include aspects of environmental benefit as well as anomalous returns. James's garnered knowledge, global relationships and personal expertise is sought after to evaluate negotiate and match stakeholders' decision-making to best outcomes.

Nick Barnsdall - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
Nick has extensive global and senior executive experience, along with a deep and successful history of building businesses. From 2006 until 2015, he served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hyundai Construction Equipment Australia and currently serves as either Chairman or non-executive director of 11 companies across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Nick's experience is broad across many industries including civil construction and infrastructure projects, mining and resource extraction, finance and technology, automotive and engineering.

Rich Brown - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Rich is Managing Director of Agio Global and is Chair of the Agio Global Investment Committee. Rich's most recent role was General Manager, Wealth at National Australia Bank. Rich has also held senior management positions at AMP, Telecom, TYCO and AGL in strategy, transformation, sales and operations. Rich is responsible for the management of finance, governance, compliance, operations, investor relations, key structuring and financial due diligence roles in fund investments.