Andrew Barnes
Andrew is the founder and major shareholder of Complectus which owns the Perpetual Guardian trustee business. Previously, Andrew was a director and founder of Just Wills Holdings Limited, a UK-based will writing and estate planning business. Before that he was CEO of Bestinvest, a US$5.7billion, UK-based investment management and advisory company, leading the sale to private capital in 2007, and was managing director of Australian Wealth Management Limited, a major Australian wealth management and trustee business that he led to IPO in 2005.
Andrew also identified the opportunity for the evolution of real estate in Australia, and was Chairman of realestate.com.au at the time of its IPO on the ASX.
Andrew holds an MA from Selwyn College, Cambridge and an ACIB (UK), and has attended the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.
Andrew in conjunction with Ben Heap, set up and ran AWI Ventures, Australia’s first specialist fintech accelerator. It was this experience of encouraging young fintech entrepreneurs to create something bigger better and new which has led him to develop a new team in New Zealand.
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