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Andrew FairweatherFounding Partner and Managing Director
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Andrew has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services market specialising in funds management.
He commenced his career in retail funds distribution for Prudential, working in similar roles nationally for JP Morgan Investment Management and Salomon Smith Barney Asset Management before joining AMP limited where in his last role, he headed the Business Development function for AMP’s largest sales division, the Savings and Retirement unit. Following this, Andrew became the Chief Executive Officer of Australian listed financial services company MMC Contrarian, responsible for building the funds management incubation model, funds management M&A and developing fund manager start ups. Andrew’s most recent role has been as the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Multi Asset and Alternatives specialist Select Asset Management. At both MMC and Select, Andrew was a member of each firms Investment Committee. Andrew is the former President of the Sydney University Conservatorium of Music Foundation where he successfully launched a major endowment fund, supports an Australia wide student composition scholarship and is an adjunct lecturer in Marketing at the Australian Graduate School of Management.
Andrew is also a director of the Association of Goals Based Advisers, a non for profit association dedicated to goals based investing and advice.
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Stephen RobertsonFounding Partner and Managing Director
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Stephen has over 25 years’ experience in both domestic and international (Asia, Japan, UK, Europe, America) financial services markets specialising in investment management, banking and stock broking. He commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co where he was a tax specialist advisor. He joined the funds management industry in 1991 and was most recently an Executive Director at Macquarie Bank for Macquarie Global Investment and Macquarie Investment Lending where he led a specialist investment and lending team of over 150 people with greater than $6b in assets under management. He has also held senior sales and leadership roles at Citi Asset Management, JP Morgan Investment Management and Rothschild Asset Management.
He is also an passionate supporter of Micro Entrepreneurs and has been the Fund Raising Director and Philanthropy Director for Opportunity International Australia, a not-for-profit global microfinance organisation.
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Chris NiallBusiness Development Director
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Chris has over 25 years experience in financial services, primary in client facing roles across product and strategy.
He is a proven business professional, with wide ranging skills across the development, marketing and sales of financial services products, including Investment Management, Platforms and Superannuation / Allocated Pensions. He commenced his career in retail property funds with National Mutual Asset Mgmt, before embarking on a 2 year stint in London working for S.G. Warburg on the UK / European equities research desks. Returning to Australia in 1994, he secured a roll with Potter Warburg Asset Mgmt (Merrill Lynch / Blackrock), in Retail Funds Mgmt before joining Macquarie Bank in 2001 in a broad, bank-wide strategy & distribution role for 3 years. For the last 10 years he has specialised in alternative asset markets, with a focus on Private Equity and Venture Capital, identifying opportunities and raising capital for both domestic and global strategies from his Family Office and Private Wealth relationships.
Outside of work, he is a Director of NfP community group Rinkydink, a Melbourne based group that connects communities & music through local sports clubs. He is also actively involved in junior sports as a Committee member of his local Football Club.
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Jessica BrentBusiness Development Associate
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Jessica commenced working for Winston Capital in 2018 as a Business Development Associate supporting the sales function.
Jessica has previously been a classroom music teacher working in many schools around Sydney. She has also worked in administration roles through her own business and local business in Sydney. Jessica has an undergraduate degree in Music and a Masters in Teaching from University of New South Wales. She continues to also teach singing as a choir tutor at the Australian Girls Choir.
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Cameron HarrisBusiness Development Director
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Cameron has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services market specialising in funds management, equities and banking.
After graduating from The University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics, he started his career at one of Australia's leading Fund Management firms, Mercantile Mutual (now ING Investment Management), supporting the IFA market. Cameron spent the next 3 years working in London in institutional equities at Deutsche Bank and Abn Amro gaining valuable experience working in a major financial centre. Upon returning to Australia, Cameron embarked on a 16 year career at Macquarie Group where he primarily worked in distribution and distribution leadership roles in the Wrap, CMA, Investment Lending and tailored investment teams. His last 4 years at Macquarie were spent working in the Personal Banking division helping to grow out their lending footprint in the Australian market in the HNW space.
Cameron is on the Board of Directors of the Allambie Heights Village Pty Ltd, a not for profit aged care and retirement village where he also on the Investment committee.
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Nicholas Dimsey Business Development Associate
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Nicholas is new to the financial services sector but has always had a strong interest to pursue a career in financial services. He is passionate about building professional partnerships and providing the best service.
He brings strong analytical skills to Winston Capital with expertise with retail, institutional and corporate sectors. He is solutions driven and has a unique opportunity to embrace alternative financial solutions.
He has worked for Surf Life Saving Western Australia in a number of various roles within the operations and lifesaving department. He has used his analytical skills to maximise resources make beach activates safer for everyone. He has used this role to develop his leadership skills and drive change within the organisation.
Nicholas studied at the University of Western Australia majoring in Accounting. He is also is heavily involved with North Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club volunteering his time to keep beach goers safe.
