Matthew Gazzard has over twenty years of experience in construction and property development.

Matthew has overseen the development of numerous Hotel, Apartment and Commercial Office projects including:

• $250M GPO Exchange Office Tower for Charter Hall in Adelaide.

• Two new build Hotel projects; the 308 room Crowne Plaza Hotel and the 311 room Ibis Hotel. These hotels have been the recipients of numerous industry awards including National Awards from the peak industry body – the Property Council of Australia.

• Over $500M of Apartment Projects in Adelaide and Melbourne Matthew has strong connections within the property development sector and oversees the daily management of the Hampton Projects teams.

Matthew completed a double degree course at RMIT in Engineering and Commerce graduating with first class honours in both Degrees.

David Smythe has been involved in the investment industry for over 30 years.

David was a co-founder of Zenith Investment Partners, a leading provider of investment research and advice to the wholesale market which includes industry superannuation funds, banks and insurance companies. Zenith controls approximately 33% of the wholesale investment research market which totals approximately 18,000 financial advisers and $650bn in FUA. In late 2019 private equity firm, Five V Capital, bought a majority stake in Zenith and David exited the business having built the business from a start-up.

Prior to forming Zenith, David was a founding shareholder and held an executive position at Investorweb (later rebranded IWL Limited). IWL was a diversified financial service business which listed on the ASX in 1999. In 2007 it was acquired by CBA for $373 million. An equity holder in that business since its establishment, David played an integral role in its growth, and at time of his departure IWL Ltd was an employer of 120+ staff and a broad provider of advisor software, research and broking to the marketplace.

David is also a co-founder and the largest shareholder of Perma Capital, a corporate advisory business primarily involved in IPO’s. Perma Capital successfully completed its first IPO in December 2015 with the $100m listing of Absolute Equity Performance Fund Limited on the Australian Stock Exchange.