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Kim Cannon
Managing Director
Kim Cannon founded the FirstMac business as a Mortgage Manager and Originator to various third party funding programs in 1988.
Kim has a long involvement in the Australian home loan market and has been instrumental in enhancing many of the products, including developing the first non-bank loan for residential construction, blended loans, and many of the then new-style discounted and honeymoon loans in the market.
In December 1991, Kim was elected to sit on the Committee of the Queensland chapter of the Mortgage Industry Association of Australasia. Kim has continued to develop the business with the company entering the securitisation market in 2001 through the acquisition of management rights to the FirstMac program and its subsequent restructure.
Andrew Kemp
Chairman
Andrew is an executive director of Huntington Group Pty Limited, a Brisbane-based corporate advisory firm, specialising in capital raisings and company acquisitions and divestments.
He has a Commerce degree from Melbourne University and is a chartered accountant. After working for KPMG and Littlewoods chartered accountants in Melbourne and Sydney, he joined AIFC, (the merchant banking arm of the ANZ Banking Group), in Sydney in 1978. From 1979 until 1985 he was Queensland Manager AIFC.
Andrew joined the north Queensland-based Coutts Group as general manager early in 1985 and worked for this group until January 1987 when he formed the Huntington Group.
Since 1980 Andrew has been involved in a range of corporate finance activities including structuring and implementing the ASX listing of seven companies. He has acted as a director of a number of companies both public and private, where he has been able to contribute with his analytical and capital market skills, as well as provide practical input into management issues being faced by executives.
Andrew is also a director of the publicly listed company Primelife Corporation Limited and has been a director of FirstMac Limited since 2001.
Bede King
Non-Executive Director
Bede is a partner of Tobin King Lateef, a Brisbane law firm, and an associate member of SIA.
He was admitted as a solicitor in 1979 and has practiced in the banking, commercial and property sectors and in managed investments / compliance areas.
Bede is a member of the compliance committees for a number of managed investments schemes including funds managed by Wilson HTM Asset Management Ltd and Property Funds of Australia Ltd.
Bede is a director of Silver Chef Limited, a publicly listed company, and he has also been the chairman of YHA Australia since 1996 following a period as Queensland chairman of Youth Hostels Association of Queensland.
He is also a director of private and public companies and has been a director of FML since 2003.
Kevin Kehoe
Company Secretary
Kevin joined FirstMac in March 2002 and was appointed company secretary in 2010. He undertakes all company secretarial requirements of FirstMac Limited.
Rod Minell
Executive Director
Rod Minell joined FirstMac in November 2004. He was previously an executive director of Imagine Group (Australia) Pty Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of diversified financial conglomerate, Brookfield Asset Management, Canada (NYSE: BAM) which acquired Centre Solutions (Australia) in October 2003.
Rod was managing director of Centre Solutions (Australia) from November 2000. Centre Solutions (Australia) was a provider of high yield structured finance via subordinated debt, mezzanine equity and structured reinsurance products to large Australian corporates.
Prior to working at Centre Solutions (Australia), Rod worked at ABN AMRO Australia Limited for ten years and was a director and member of its management and credit committees. At ABN AMRO he held positions as head of its corporate and structured finance, financial engineering, capital market and syndication departments.
Rod is a member of the Council and former deputy chairman Australian Red Cross NSW. He is a non-executive director of Imagine Group (Australia) Pty Limited. |