Our Investment Team
Craig McDonald
Executive Director & Portfolio Manager
Craig has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry gained in institutional research sales, equities analysis and chartered accounting. Prior to co founding GFFM in 2016, Craig held positions as Vice President at Deutsche Bank, Golman Sachs (formerly, J.B Were & Sons) and Commonwealth Bank. Craig commenced his career as an accountant with KPMG in 1988 where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Craig graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Economics, majoring in accounting and finance. He holds graduate diploma qualifications from Swinburne University and the Securities Institute of Australia.
Dr Sam Ferraro
Chief Investment Officer
Managing Director of financial consulting firm Evidente, Sam has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets with Merrill Lynch, JBWere and Goldman Sachs. Sam's research on firm complexity and corporate governance was shortlisted for the ESGRA awards. He has written for the Fairfax mastheads, including The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review and is a member of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies. Sam has a BComm (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in Applied Finance from Macquarie University.
KUSHAGRA SHARMa
Financial Analyst
Kush has an Indian upbringing and education at a very high level. Kush was previously employed with Royal Bank of Scotland in New Delhi as a Financial Analyst. Kush has successfully worked in the Australian finance industry for over ten years prior to joining GFFM. Kush is a keen cricket follower and test and IPL traject.
Our Advisory Board
Chris Adams
Bec, CPA, GDipAppFin
Chris has over 30 years’ experience in Australian funds management and has worked across all classes of Australian listed equities.
Most recently, he was a founding director and portfolio manager at Fairview Equity Partners. In his 8 years there, Fairview grew to become a premier small cap funds management operation with exceptional performance periods and the highest recommendations from research houses.
Prior to Fairview Chris was a senior portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management for 10 years with portfolio management responsibilities for the mid cap fund and senior investment management responsibilities across the other funds.
Chris commenced his funds management career in the mid 90s at County (Invesco) Investment Management as an investment performance analyst.
Mike Ferraro
Mike has over thirty years experience in the legal profession. He was recently appointed as CEO of ASX listed firm, Alumina.
In his previous role at Herbert Smith Freehills, Mike was responsible for cross border transactions and linking capability to clients' needs across the Asia Pacific region. He worked closely with boards and senior management on strategic issues affecting their organisations. Mike draws on valuable experience gained from a number of previous roles including Chief Counsel at BHP Biliton, and most recently, Global Head of Corporate and member of Herbert Smith Freehills' Global Executive Management Committee.
Mike's experience extends to public and private mergers and acquisitions, crisis management, equity capital markets, joint ventures and governance. He has extensive experience in financial services, energy and resources.
SHANE DELPHINE
Shane has worked in a broad variety of roles across the financial services industry – as an equity options market maker with Optiver Australia, an asset consultant with Frontier Investment Advisors, a quantitative analyst with County Investment Management and an equity analyst and portfolio manager with INVESCO Australia and Karara Investment Management.
Shane currently works as an independent strategic financial consultant.