Don studied economics at the University of New England, where he gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in 1961 and Master of Arts (Honours) in 1965 and at the Australian National University, from which university he was in 1968 awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He taught economics and finance at both universities prior to 1971, when he joined the Reserve Bank of Australia, where he held senior positions in the Bank's Research Department and its Banking and Finance Department.
From 1981 to 2001, Dr Stammer was Chief Economist/Director of Investment Strategy for Deutsche Bank and its predecessor Bain & Company.
Over those two decades, he gave almost 9,000 presentations on the economy and investment markets - and was rated highly in many surveys of business leaders and fund managers for his analysis of the business outlook and the trends and opportunities in investment markets.
While a director of Deutsche Bank/Bain & Company, Don was for ten years (1971 to 1980) a visiting professor at the Australian Graduate School of Management where he taught a course on capital markets.
In addition to his role as non-executive Chairman of Præmium, Dr Stammer is Chairman of Tribeca Learning Limited and a non-executive director of ING Private Equity Access Limited. As well, Don chairs the Australia Korea Foundation, a body set up by the Australian Government to improve mutual understanding between Australia and Korea. In November 2004, he retired as a director of ING Australia Holdings Limited and as chairman of the ING listed property trusts after ten years as a director, five of them as Chairman of the listed property trusts. In 2005 Dr Stammer retired from his role as Chairman of Mosaic Oil NL.
Don has since 1987 contributed a fortnightly column to BRW. Until recently he made a weekly broadcast on the Australian economy and share market for the BBC World Service and he contributed a regular column to the Japanese financial newspaper the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Dr Stammer is a member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee and Remuneration Committee.
Using experience gained during the past 5 years building and managing portfolio services at JBWere and BNP Paribas, Præmium Portfolio Services is the result of Arthur's vision of merging the latest in Web technology and CGT portfolio techniques to deliver a revolutionary service for the investor market.
Arthur's initial background was business systems consulting and development having cut his teeth as a consultant with the precursor to Accenture for the first 5 years of his working life. A subsequent 10 year stint as an independent IT consultant to some of the world's largest investment banks in London provides Arthur with a strong business systems and technology background.
Chris Silcox has extensive experience in project management, product development and implementation of procedures. For some years she carried out projects in a self employed capacity working within a range of organisations and industry types, focusing on accounting and administration services.
Chris brought her expertise into the financial services industry almost 10 years ago, and her position immediately prior to joining Præmium in 2002 was with Merrill Lynch Private as Administration Manager, in charge of their retail portfolio management products including superannuation.
At Præmium, Chris is responsible for overseeing and progressing the operations functions and development of the service in line with market and clients’ requirements and in accordance with available resources. She is also an Executive Director for Præmium Limited and Præmium Australia Pty Ltd’s Compliance Manager.
Since being admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1989, Ms Nolan has worked as an employed solicitor with two large national Australian law firms and for a brief period for a boutique investment bank and as a partner of a medium-sized, Melbourne-based law firm.
She has practiced extensively as a Corporate Lawyer with a focus on both Australian and international capital raisings, financial services reform, information technology, ASX Listing Rules and intellectual property.
Prior to joining Præmium as its Company Secretary & General Counsel in May 2006, Ms Nolan acted as the company's external legal adviser since the time of its inception and accordingly has a strong understanding of the unique issues and opportunities facing the firm. Ms Nolan’s primary focus since the Company’s listing in May 2006, in addition to managing the group legal and compliance function, has been the establishment of an appropriate structure for Praemium’s proposed operations in the UK and the seeking of the necessary authorisations required for Præmium to operate an SMA service there.
Ms Nolan is an Executive Director and acts as secretary to all group subsidiaries and board committees.
After nine years in the engineering profession, Mr Bryson joined JBWere and Son in 1983 and was appointed Group General Manager in 1985 during a period of significant changes occurring in the market place with the firm emerging as the premier privately owned investment house in Australasia over this period.
In 1991 Mr Bryson was appointed “National Manager – Private Clients” for the JBWere group’s retail advisory division and was responsible for building this group from its then small base to one of the largest and most respected retail investment operations in Australia. The division was rated number one in “Personal Investment” magazine’s 'Top Retail Broking Houses Survey' for the seven years the magazine undertook the survey. The survey’s respondents included both individual investors as well as competitor groups.
The retail group under Mr Bryson's leadership evolved over the 1990's to be recognised within JBWere and in the market place as core strategic strength of the firm at a time when many brokers were struggling with and disbanding their retail networks. In 2000, Mr Bryson established the firm’s Private Equity presence and has also been involved in other capital raisings.
Mr Bryson retired from Goldman Sachs JBWere in 2003. Since that time he has been providing consulting services to the financial services, and in particular stock broking, industry in Australia.
Mr Bryson’s depth and breadth of experience in respect to the Australian retail broking industry will complement the skills and experience of the other members of the Board.
In accordance with the Company’s Board Charter, Mr Bryson will sit on at least one board committee.
Mr Edgley holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Monash University. His career has been predominantly focused in fixed interest financial products, in Australia, the UK and Japan.
During the period spanning March 2000 to July 2004, Mr Edgley held the position of Managing Director & Head of Sales, Asia Pacific Region, Royal Bank of Scotland, and was also a Director of Royal Bank of Scotland Australia Pty Ltd. In the regional role he was responsible for a team of 70 sales and sales support people throughout Asia for marketing the Banks Financial Markets Products including Fixed Income, Derivatives and Foreign Exchange products.
Mr Edgley established the Royal Bank of Scotland's Financial Markets business in Australia and has a solid understanding of the drivers affecting that market and its institutional participants.
Mr Edgley chairs the Company's Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee.
Mr Taylor has 35 years experience as a fixed interest trader. Between 1982 and 2002 Mr Taylor was a Senior Partner of Potter Partners and held the role of Head of Risk and Trading. Based in London, where he founded a highly successful operation for Potter Partners, he was a member of the SFE Reporting Bond Dealers Committee. Mr Taylor has extensive experience as an effective and senior sales person in the financial services sector, having developed significant relationships with key participants in the Australian and international markets, including Government Treasury Departments and major investment companies.
Mr Taylor is the Chairman of the Company's Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit Risk & Compliance Committee.