Debt market transactions support

Rod Ellwood is the General Manager of Debt Market Services at Perpetual Corporate Trust - Australia’s market leading fiduciary and financial services business for the domestic securitisation industry. With over 24 years’ experience, he has worked in a number of interesting treasury and finance roles as a securitisation issuer, in group treasury at a major bank and as the founding CEO of a boutique funding business.

Rod is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a number of post graduate courses in securitisation and corporate leadership. He recently completed an intensive leadership program with Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA) on Corporate Leadership and Innovation. He is a member of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants, a member of the Institute of Company Directors and sits on the Regulatory and Prudential Subcommittee for the Australian Securitisation Forum.

Rod started his career in securitisation when he arrived in Australia in 1994 and joined the founders of Rams Home Loans as GM Finance and Treasurer. In 1998 he founded Longreach Global Capital which was Australia's first independent asset backed CP conduit owned by JP Morgan, Hastings and Allco, where he served as CEO for 9 years before returning to the mortgage industry as Treasurer of Bluestone prior to joining ANZ in 2008.

He had the fortune of working for ANZ Group Treasury during the GFC on both unsecured and secured funding. During his 5 years with ANZ, he was actively involved with the establishment of the Government Guaranteed Bond program and with the ASF working group with Federal Treasury and APRA on the establishment of the Australian Covered Bond framework. With over $45bn of RMBS issuance under the belt, he was a key person on the ANZ team that developed and issued the first Covered Bond in Australia in September 2011.

Rod embraces his leadership roles with high levels of energy and enthusiasm, bringing a wealth of industry knowledge, broad business acumen and a steady engaging management style to the team.

Lynsey Thorrington is a Senior Relationship Manager and is responsible for relationship management within the debt capital markets.

Lynsey joined Perpetual in 2007 as part of the Debt Markets, Transaction Management team. She has deep expertise and relationships in this segment having worked within Debt Markets in Australia for over 17 years. Prior to joining Perpetual Corporate Trust, Lynsey worked at BNY Mellon - Corporate Trust Division and JP Morgan Corporate Trust in Australia.

Lynsey holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Wales, Swansea (LLB Hons) and has with a number of postgraduate qualifications in securitisation.

She is also a founding member of the Australian Securitisation Forum’s Future Leaders and Young Professionals Committee and active participant of Perpetual’s Diversity Counsel.