Board of Directors

Mr D’Aloisio has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Perpetual since December 2016. Mr D’Aloisio became Chairman of Perpetual in May 2017.

Skills and experience 

Mr D’Aloisio has held leadership roles in listed and non-listed companies. He was CEO and MD at the Australian Securities Exchange from 2004–2006. Mr D’Aloisio was Chief Executive Partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques between 1992–2004 having first joined the firm in 1977. Mr D’Aloisio was appointed a Commissioner for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in 2006 and Chairman in 2007 for a four-year term. He was Chairman of the (International) Joint Forum of the Basel Committee on banking supervision from 2009–2011.

Most recently Mr D’Aloisio was Chairman of IRESS Limited (technology). He was a non‑executive director of ASX listed Boral Limited 2002–2004 as well as a director of the Business Council of Australia 2003–2006 and the World Federation of Exchanges 2004–2006. He was President of the Australian Winemakers Federation 2012–2016. 

Currently Mr D’Aloisio is President of the European Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre. 

BA LLB (Hons)

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

IRESS Limited, ASX:IRE (from June 2012 to May 2021) 

Board Committee memberships

Chairman of the Nominations Committee

Mr Adams has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Perpetual since September 2018.

Skills and experience 

Mr Adams is a proven financial services business leader with over 30 years’ experience locally and globally across funds management, financial advice and fiduciary services. 

Before Perpetual, Mr Adams was Head of Pan‑Asia and a member of the Global Executive Committee of Janus Henderson where he had been for six years. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive of Challenger Funds Management, and was previously CEO of First State Investments UK. 

BBus (Accounting)

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Nil 

Ms Aboelnaga Kanaan has been an Independent Non-Executive Director since 2021. 

Skills and experience 

Based in New York, USA, Ms Aboelnaga Kanaan is a seasoned director, entrepreneur and asset management executive having held leadership positions over a distinguished career spanning more than thirty years. She is currently the Managing Partner of K6 Investments LLC, an independent private equity firm which she founded in 2011. 

Previously, Ms Aboelnaga Kanaan served as President and CEO of Proctor Investment Managers, a firm she co-founded in 2002 to acquire and scale traditional and alternative asset managers. Ms Aboelnaga Kanaan sold the firm to National Bank of Canada in 2006, acquired affiliates managing nearly $14 billion in assets under management and continued as Proctor’s President and CEO until 2013. 

With global expertise in public as well as private financial services firms, Ms Aboelnaga Kanaan is currently a Director of Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS) and is Chair of the Technology Committee and a Member of the Executive and Enterprise Risk Committees; a Director of Mondee Holdings (Nasdaq: MOND) and is Chair of the Nomination and Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee, Director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund; and has served as a Board Member of a number of traditional and alternative asset managers in the United States. With a commitment to education and economic empowerment, she also has extensive non-profit board experience in those fields including as an investment committee member of sizeable educational endowments. 

Ms Aboelnaga Kanaan holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

BSc (Econ) MBA

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Webster Financial Corporation, NYSE: WBS (from February 2022 following merger with Sterling Bancorp - Present) 

Mondee Holdings, Nasdaq: MOND (July 2022 – Present)

Sterling Bancorp, NYSE: STL (from May 2019 – February 2022)FinTech Acquisition Corp VI (from February 2021 to December 2022) 

Board Committee memberships

Chairman of the Technology & Cyber Security Committee (appointed Chairman in August 2023)

Member of the Investment Committee

Mr Cooper has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Perpetual since September 2019. 

Skills and experience 

Mr Cooper has more than 30 years of global investment industry experience in the UK, Asia and Australia with a deep understanding of international funds management. 

Mr Cooper brings strong financial services and strategy expertise to the Perpetual Board predominantly gained from his executive career at Schroders Australia where he was the Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to 2018 with responsibility for Schroders’ institutional business across Asia Pacific and then globally and his current non‑executive career across the superannuation, banking and technology sectors. 

Mr Cooper currently serves as a Non-executive Director of NSW Treasury Corporation, where he also chairs the Investment Committee. He is currently the Chairman of Avanteos Investments Limited (part of the Colonial First State Group).

Mr Cooper is a Non-executive Director of Australian Payments Plus Limited and some of its subsidiaries/related entities. Previously, Mr Cooper acted as a Non-executive Director to the Financial Services Council and held the position of Chairman from 2014 to 2016. 

FIA, FIAA, BEc (Actuarial Studies)

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Nil 

Board Committee memberships

Chairman of the Investment Committee (appointed Chairman in January 2023)

Member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee

Member of the People and Remuneration Committee

Member of the Nominations Committee

Ms Fox has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Perpetual since September 2015. 

Skills and experience 

Ms Fox has more than 30 years’ of experience in financial services, securitisation and risk management gained in Australia, the US and across Asia. A lawyer by training, she was Managing Director for Ambac Assurance Corporation from 2001 to 2011, Managing Director of ABN Amro Australia from 1997 to 2001 and Vice President of Citibank. 

Ms Fox brings to the Board a deep knowledge of developing and leading successful financial services businesses and extensive experience with securitisation, regulatory frameworks, risk management and governance. 

Ms Fox is Chairman of Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited and Mission Australia Housing, and Deputy Chair of the Rural Fire Service Benevolent Fund. Ms Fox is a Non-executive Director of Mission Australia, Aspect Studios Pty Ltd and O’Connell Street Associates. 

Ms Fox is a Director of Queensland Trustees Pty Limited, which acts as trustee for Perpetual’s employee share plans.

BA JD (Law) FAICD

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited, ASX:PIC (from July 2017 to present) 

Board Committee memberships 

Chairman of the People and Remuneration Committee

Member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee

Member of the Nominations Committee

Member of the Integration Committee

Mr Hammond has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Perpetual since March 2015. 

Skills and experience 

Mr Hammond was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 26 years and during that time held a range of senior management positions including lead partner for several major financial institutions. He has previously been a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board and represented Australia on the International Accounting Standards Board. Previously, Mr Hammond was a Director of Citi’s Australian retail bank and Venues NSW.

Mr Hammond has a deep knowledge of the financial services industry and brings to the Board expertise in financial reporting, risk management, and mergers and acquisitions. He has provided extensive advisory and audit services to PwC’s domestic and global clients in banking, insurance and asset management. 

Mr Hammond is Chairman of the not-for-profit organisation Mission Australia and a Non-executive Director of Suncorp Group Limited. 

Mr Hammond is a Director of Queensland Trustees Pty Limited, which acts as trustee for Perpetual’s employee share plans.

BA (Hons) FCA FCPA FAICD

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Suncorp Group Limited, ASX:SUN (from October 2018 to present) 

Board Committee memberships

Chairman of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee

Member of the Investment Committee

Member of the Nominations Committee

Member of the Technology and Cyber Security Committee

Mr Jones was appointed to the Board of Perpetual in 2023 following the acquisition of Pendal Group.

Skills and experience 

Mr Jones is based in New York City, USA. He has over 40 years’ experience in the financial services industry across both investments and funds management. Most recently, Mr Jones was Principal of CMVJ Capital LLC, a private investor and adviser in the financial services, asset management and technology industries. Prior to this, he was Head of Blackrock’s US Global Fundamental Equity and Co-head of Global Active Equity. Previously, he spent 32 years in a range of roles at Robert Fleming and Co and JP Morgan Asset Management. 

MA (Cantab) CFA

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Pendal Group Limited, ASX:PDL (2018 until delisting in January 2023). 

Board Committee memberships

Member of the People and Remuneration Committee

Member of the Investment Committee

Member of the Integration Committee

Member of the Technology and Cyber Security Committee

Ms Trafford-Walker has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Perpetual since December 2019. 

Skills and experience 

Ms Trafford-Walker has over 30 years of senior executive and business management experience within the investment industry, bringing extensive knowledge of investment management and a strong institutional and international perspective to the Perpetual Board. 

Ms Trafford-Walker began her career in institutional investment consulting in 1992, and until December 2019 was an Investment Director at Frontier Advisors (Frontier). At various times during her tenure, she was responsible for the original development and on-going management of Frontier’s business, as well as providing investment and governance advice to a number of the firm’s clients. 

Currently Ms Trafford-Walker is a Non‑executive Director of Victorian Funds Management Corporation, Prospa Group Ltd, Link Administration Holdings Ltd, FleetPartners Group (previously known as Eclipx Group), an Investment Committee Member of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Strategic Advisor to the QE Advisory Board and Independent Advisor to the Investment Committee of the Australian Retirement Trust. 

BEc, M.Fin

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Prospa Group Limited, ASX:PGL (from March 2018 to present) 

Link Administration Holdings, ASX:LNK (from October 2015 to present) 

FleetPartners Group, ASX:FP (from July 2021 to present) 

Board Committee memberships

Chairman of the Integration Committee (appointed August 2023)

Member of the Investment Committee

Member of the People and Remuneration Committee

Member of the Technology and Cyber Security Committee

Skills and experience 

Mr Wagstaff has over 35 years’ experience in asset management and has served on the executive committee of several large global asset managers including Janus Henderson, M&G and Gartmore . Mr Wagstaff brings strong expertise in sales, marketing, brand and product development together with experience of mergers , acquisitions and integrations across the asset management sector. 

Mr Wagstaff is also Chair of Solomon Investments Limited in the UK and was previously Chair of Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited and Henderson Investment Funds Limited.

BA(Hons) Accounting

Listed company directorships held during the past three financial years

Nil

Board Committee memberships

Member of the People and Remuneration Committee

Member of the Investment Committee

Sylvie Dimarco was appointed Company Secretary of Perpetual in April 2020. 

Ms Dimarco joined Perpetual in 2014 and is currently Global Head of Governance and Company Secretary at Perpetual. She is also Company Secretary of Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited (ASX:PIC) and all of Perpetual’s subsidiary boards. She is a member of the Perpetual Limited Continuous Disclosure Committee. 

Skills and experience 

Ms Dimarco has over 16 years’ experience in company secretariat practice and administration for listed and unlisted companies. Before Perpetual, she practised as a commercial lawyer in Sydney and Canberra for 11 years, working in predominantly mid-sized law firms. 

Ms Dimarco holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney and has completed the Governance Institute of Australia’s Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance. She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course. 

LLB, GradDipAppCorpGov, FGIA, GAICD