Board of Directors

Jonathan Trollip

Chairman and Non-Executive Director

Jonathan Trollip is an experienced Director with over 35 years of commercial, corporate, governance, legal and transaction experience. Jonathan is currently non-executive chairman of ASX listed Spheria Emerging Companies Limited and Plato Income Maximser Limited, and a non-executive director of ASX listed BCAL Diagnostics Limited and ASX, LSE and JSE listed Kore Potash Limited. He was previously chairman of ASX listed Antipodes Global Investment Company Limited, Future Generation Investment Company Limited and Spicers Limited.

Jonathan holds various commercial private company directorships and is involved in the not for profit sector as chairman of the Pinnacle Charitable Foundation, a director of the Watarrka Foundation Limited and on the advisory board of Science for Wildlife.

Jonathan worked as a principal of Meridian for the 22 years and prior to that he was a Partner with law firm Herbert Smith Freehills. He holds postgraduate degrees in economics and law, was admitted as a qualified lawyer in England and Australia, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Geoff Wilson AO

Non-Executive Director

Geoff Wilson has over 44 years’ direct experience in investment markets having held a variety of senior investment roles in Australia, the UK and the US.  Geoff founded Wilson Asset Management in 1997 and has grown the fund manager to be one of the leading boutique Australian fund managers.  In 2014 Geoff created Australia’s first listed philanthropic wealth creation vehicles, Future Generation Investment Company Limited and subsequently Future Generation Global Investment Company Limited.

Wilson Asset Management is an investment manager based in Sydney, Australia and owned by Geoff.  Today, Wilson Asset Management is comprised of 17 investment professionals who offer a combined investment experience of more than 200 years.

Wilson Asset Management manages $5 billion between eight Listed Investment Companies on the Australian Stock Exchange on behalf of more than 130,000 investors.

Geoff holds a Bachelor of Science, a Graduate Management Qualification and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

In addition to Geoff’s Directorships with the Wilson Asset Management Group and the Future Generation Companies, he also holds Directorships with Global Value Fund (since 2014), Hearts and Minds Investments Limited (since 2018), Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation (since 1997) and the Australia Rugby Foundation (2024).

Chris Cuffe AO

Non-Executive Director

Following a five year period with chartered accountants Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co (now KPMG), Chris Cuffe entered the funds management industry in 1985. In 1988 he joined Colonial First State where he was CEO from 1990 until 2003. During this period the company grew from a start-up operation to become Australia’s largest investment manager. In 2003 he then became CEO of the listed Challenger Financial Services Group Limited. In 2006, Chris joined non-profit organisation Social Ventures Australia (SVA) as an Executive Director.

Since 2009 Chris has been involved in a portfolio of activities in the investment and non-profit sectors. These activities now include:

  • Non Executive Director of listed investment companies Global Value Fund Limited, Argo Investments Limited and Hearts and Minds Investments Limited (which he is also Chairman of);

  • Member of the Investment Committee of UniSuper (the $115 billion superannuation scheme dedicated to people working in Australia’s higher education and research sector) and past director of UniSuper Limited from 2007-2011 and Chairman from 2011-2017;

  • Non Executive Director of Realside Financial Group, a boutique private debt and unlisted property manager

  • Chairman and Founder of Australian Philanthropic Services (a not for profit organisation which inspires, facilitates and educates Australia’s high net worth community and the professional advisers that support them about effective philanthropy) and trustee and portfolio manager of their $230m public ancillary fund;

  • Member of the Investment Committees of various ultra high net worth families;

  • Member of the Investment Committee of the $4 billion Paul Ramsay Foundation; and

  • Founder, director and portfolio manager of Third Link Growth Fund (www.thirdlink.com.au), a managed investment scheme (investing in Australian shares) and available to the public whereby all management fees received are donated to charity.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of NSW and a Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors and an Associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

In October 2007 Chris was inducted into the Australian Fund Manager’s RBS Hall of Fame for services to the investment industry. In 2017 he was appointed as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

Miles Staude

Portfolio Manager & Director

Miles has over twenty years of experience in trading, investment management and research, covering a wide range of financial markets. He is the Portfolio Manager of the Global Value Fund and serves as a Director on the Global Value Fund Board. Under Mirabella’s regulatory license, Miles has overall responsibility for the GVF portfolio management team’s trading and investment management activities.

Prior to founding Staude Capital, Miles spent ten years as a Portfolio Manager and Investment Analyst at Metage Capital, a London based investment management firm. Before that, he spent five years as a sell-side equity analyst at RBC Capital Markets. Miles holds an Economics degree from the University of Sydney and is a CFA Charterholder.