About us

Mark Sherwood

Investment Strategist

Mark has more than 20 years experience in investment markets across a broad range of asset classes. Mark held senior roles at Westpac's private wealth business, most recently as Regional Director North for the Global Investment Services business where he led a team of investment directors providing advice to high net worth investors. Prior to Westpac, Mark worked across the Asian region for several investment banks, including Credit Suisse, TD Securities and ANZ Investment Bank. Mark's extensive financial markets experience includes working with institutional investors, large corporations and ultra high net worth families. His broad asset class experience includes various roles across fixed income credit markets both origination and secondary trading, equity markets, managed funds, ETFs, private debt and equity, as well as institutional real estate investing.

Vito Abbonizio

Director, Capital Market Sales

Vito is a financial services professional with more than 25 years of experience across credit and debt markets at several domestic and foreign banks.

Prior to joining iPartners Vito was a Director Investment Sales at CBA , Westpac and Societe Generale where he worked extensively across originations, structuring, securitisation and Fixed Interest areas. Vito was responsible for all facets of building and maintaining the continued growth of the client base with a ‘plain english’ approach in all products and services.

Vito is client centric and passionate to achieve a successful outcome for all his clients. His client depth and breadth of experience spans from the self directed SMSF through to fund managers, corporates, financial advisors, charities, religious organisations and high net wealth individuals delivering a consistent high level of service understanding focused on client needs.

Peter Dalton

Director, Capital Market Sales

Peter Dalton has more than 20 years of professional experience in financial and investment markets. He was most recently the Head Global Syndicate at Westpac Institutional Bank, responsible for the origination, execution and placement of investment grade institutional fixed income deals. Prior to Westpac, Peter held executive positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities, ANZ Institutional, Investec and the DeBeers Group. He has completed hundreds of transactions globally for government, financial institutions, corporates and businesses with an aggregate value in excess of $500 billion.

Alex Strizhevsky

Director, Capital Market Sales

Alex Strizhevsky has over 25 years of financial market experience. He spent over 13 years at National Australia Bank specialising in debt market product distribution to high-net-worth and institutional clients, encompassing a wide range of fixed income and alternative assets. Prior to NAB, he was an Associate Director at Westpac, handling debt markets, FX, and structured products, and held various roles at ANZ, including investor sales and securitisation. Throughout his career, Alex has consistently demonstrated expertise in sales, client relationship management, and a deep understanding of diverse financial instruments.

Toby Harpham

Director, Capital Markets

Drawing on over 20 years of financial markets, debt origination, and credit expertise, Toby collaborates with key banking and agricultural stakeholders to deliver, execute, and manage intricate financial solutions. His passion for non-bank and off-balance sheet transactions is complemented by extensive experience within the agricultural sector, particularly in early-stage start-ups and growth companies.

Pankaj Makhija

Head of Private Markets

Pankaj is responsible for managing the credit investment team overseeing the origination, structuring, and execution of new private debt transactions. With over two decades of experience, he has underwritten successful credit and equity investments throughout the Asia Pacific region. His experience includes high-yield private credit, special situations, loan portfolios, and the development of lending platforms. During his 15+ year tenure at Deutsche Bank's Strategic Investments Group, he last led opportunistic investments in Australia, managing transactions across a broad spectrum of asset classes in key markets including Australia, New Zealand, and numerous Asian nations. This included senior and mezzanine lending, as well as junior/equity investments in corporate loans, commercial real estate, SME finance, and consumer lending. As part of his responsibilities, he served as an observer on the board of Latitude Financial Services and as Deutsche Bank’s nominee director at Angle Finance and Angle Auto. Pankaj holds an MBA in Finance, IT & Strategy from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi.

Javier Quintanilla

Capital Markets Corporate Origination

With over a decade of experience in banking and credit investments, Javier leads iPartners’ Capital Markets Corporate Origination, providing bespoke financing solutions with a client-centric approach. His experience includes roles at HSBC, where he originated, structured, and managed debt transactions for Australia’s largest corporations. He also brings expertise from working at a credit fund, specialised in domestic and offshore structured credit investments.

Geoff Tame

Director, Capital Markets

Geoff has over 20 years’ experience in capital markets focussing on structuring and execution across multiple asset classes encompassing ABS, securitisation, corporate debt, structured products and money markets and instrument types including physical, derivative (OTC, exchange traded, structured). His experience was gained from institutional and investment banking environments, most recently with Institutional Banking and Markets at CBA

Alex Thompson

Head of Capital, Funds Management

Alex has more than 15 years’ experience in funds management across North America, Europe and Australia. His experience spans asset management, global markets and wealth management. Alex has held investment management and business development roles with Navigator Global Investments, MLC and NAB. Alex has completed a Masters of Business in Finance from the University of Technology Sydney, a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and Finance from the University of Queensland and holds a Diploma of Financial Planning.

Justin Harsel

Head Portfolio Manager

Justin has over 20 years of experience in global financial markets. He has worked in all aspects of structured finance including as in-house counsel at an investment bank, structurer and portfolio manager. Having started his career as a graduate lawyer at UBS, Justin moved into structuring and then trading at Deutsche Bank in Sydney and Tokyo. He moved into funds management as a portfolio manager specialising in quantitative strategies across asset classes including credit, rates, equities and property at hedge funds RF Capital, Regal Funds Management and Maven Securities.

Andrew Baume

Bond Portfolio Manager

Andrew brings over 40 years of financial markets experience, spanning diverse domestic and international FX, Fixed Income and Credit markets. His career includes 20 years at Westpac, culminating in the role of Head of Trading, Credit Portfolio Management, where he managed a loan book exceeding $100 billion. He also spent 13 years at Deutsche Bank, including a London posting as Australian Credit Specialist. Prior to joining iPartners, he was Head of Fixed Income at Mason Stevens.

Doris Zhou

Portfolio Manager

Doris joined iPartners in 2022 and brings a strong background in financial services with deep expertise in investment analysis, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

She previously worked at KPMG Sydney as a consultant, where she honed her investment and risk advisory skills by advising institutional clients on financial risk frameworks and investment governance. She later joined Deloitte Sydney as an Audit Analyst, focusing on financial modelling, compliance monitoring, and regulatory reporting for ASX-listed companies.

Doris holds a Master of Commerce in Banking & Business Analytics, and a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting & Finance from the University of Sydney. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA), a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and is currently working towards the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Doris is fluent in both English and Mandarin.