MaxCap continues hiring spree

MaxCap continues to increase its headcount by announcing three new appointments to its capital team.

The announcement follows the recent hire of industry veteran Rob Hattersley as group head of capital in September 2022.

Ben Woolley will join as associate director of capital and will be primarily responsible for executing capital-raising strategies within the domestic wholesale market.

He arrives from AMP Capital, where he spent nine months as manager of real estate equity. There he reported to Hattersley, who joined MaxCap three months ago.

Woolley's role is to solve problems for investors and provide targeted capital engagement to grow and diversify the business.

Before that, he spent eight years in Frontier's real assets division, providing specialist investment advice to institutional clients.

Earlier, he was a project analyst at LA-based management consultancy, Quanco.

The second recruit Hugh Thomson joins from CBRE, where he was an associate director in their Asia capital markets business.

At CBRE, he provided advice and raised funds for the Australian office sector and relationship management of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and ultra-high-net-worth family offices across the region.

Thomson's role at MaxCap will include capital raising, targeting family offices and private investors in Asia and ongoing relationship management.

Finally, Liam Howley joins the commercial real estate financier and investment manager as an associate, private capital from The SILC Group's capital solution team. In that role, he was responsible for wholesale capital raisings with a focus on product development, investor collateral, and book builds.

At MaxCap, he will have a similar role supporting private capital fundraising and creating business development material to support origination.

Commenting on the appointments, Hattersley said: "It is a momentous time for our industry and the sector that is particularly well positioned to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to an increasingly engaged investor market here in Australia and internationally. These new hires underscore the significant growth opportunities that exist."

Hattersley said the appointments would bolster MaxCap's existing capital origination and relationship management team.

"I look forward to working with them to expand on our track record of delivering superior returns for our investment partners."