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Building businesses and creating opportunities

Great businesses come in all shapes and sizes. By focusing on the opportunity, we can help drive the journey from good to great.

Hands-on leadership

Supporting business leaders is critical. We invest heavily into our people – we value servant leadership. How can we help? What experiences have we had that are relevant?

Unearth opportunity

Good businesses start with great management. Growth opportunities are central to our identification process. Where can this business go? Where could it be in 5 years time? Can we shape the future?

Drive real growth

Results must be tangible and achievable. All good businesses have a balanced scorecard approach. We are no different.

Investment philospohies

Markets we like:

  • Waste recycling

  • Mining and quarrying consumables

  • Construction

  • Infrastructure

Management teams we like:

  • Have passion

  • See the big picture

  • Are subject matter experts

  • Have long development runways

Business fundamentals:

  • No red flags: we are not ‘turnaround’ focused

  • Clear growth strategies that make sense

  • Strong market positions

COVID-19 has us focussed on:

  • Supply chain disruption

  • Nationalistic opportunities

  • Creating Australian jobs

Investment criteria

Experience tells us there are definitive traits of a business which Trinity recognises as ‘best fit’ for our model. Naturally, within these parameters we apply significant flexibility, but as a starting point we look for:

  • Ownership
    Private
  • Growth outlook
    Long-term growth orientated
    Understand changing market dynamics
  • Business size
    Turnover $5m - $100m
    Strong management / ownership
    Growth pathways
  • KPIs
    Revenue
    Profit
    Efficiency
    Growth
  • Areas of interest
    Australian Sovereignty support
    Supply chain integration post COVID-19
    Infrastructure
    Recycling & Renewables
  • Investment type
    Minority
    Majority
    JV
    $5m to $20m
  • Exit strategy
    Business specific
    Focus on long-term value creation

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Whether you're looking to be an investment partner or explore options for the future of your business, we'd love to hear from you.

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Edward Kemp

Edward Kemp

Advisory Board

Edward spent over 10 years at Evans and Partners where he was a Partner in its Private Wealth business. He brings significant experience advising high net worth families and individuals in private and listed equity investments and spent over a decade in heavy industry and manufacturing, including in the commercial aircraft, newsprint and clay fired brick and paver sectors.

He is currently advising a family owned and operated manufacturing business supplying OEM’s in the transport, tourism and sport and recreation sectors.

Ed Sill

Ed Sill

Director

With a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) as a firm foundation, Ed has a sharp eye for increasing and diversifying shareholder value. His entrepreneurial expertise has featured the successful execution of mergers and acquisitions, public equities, re-engineering of distressed financial structures, and aligning visions for merged corporate entities.

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As Chief Executive Officer of the Locker Group, Ed initiated an industry roll up that steered the Locker Group to revenues circa $200M, culminating in a sale to a U.S. listed entity. The next seven years saw him as the Vice President for AsiaPacific, where he managed further business expansion and subsequent diverse relationships in the complex Asia Pacific regions, with a focus on Chinese business relationships.

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Ed’s philanthropic practices and corporate management history also includes a variety of involvement in the Australian Football League where, as a volunteer Director, Ed’s passion and drive to deliver a better community correlates directly with his commercial skill set.

Sam Mitchell

Sam Mitchell

Director

Both a player and manager of people, Sam has spent almost two decades at the pinnacle of Australian sport with two very different, but elite, organisations. His first-hand experience in strategy, motivation, team dynamics, critical thinking and psychology are unparalleled.

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Sam is best known for earned impressive accolades during his AFL career, playing 329AFL games, including four premierships – one as captain – and a Brownlow Medal.Yet he has been equally focused in life off the arena; Sam has completed aMaster’s in Business Administration at Monash University, and has appeared in multiple leadership training, including public speaking, culture development and organisational change management. Put simply, Sam understands what differentiates an average business from an outstanding commercial organisation.

Kevin Keaney

Kevin Keaney

Director

Having completed a Master’s in Business Management at Monash University, Kevin has lengthy market experience having created, built and sold businesses to both publicly listed and private enterprises. His achievements led him to become the Director of Quantum Synergy (Vic) Pty Ltd Management Consultants.

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Here, Kevin led organisations of significant size, scale and complexity, managing both horizontal and vertical growth initiatives, and personally orchestrating and negotiating strategic mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. He understands the value of disrupting the status quo, and is renowned for helping entities launch and execute profitable operational models, while developing corporate culture.

Richard Garvey

Richard Garvey

Advisory Board

Richard spent 34 years in chartered accounting, including 22 years as a partner at KPMG. He also spent 10 years on the Board of the Hawthorn Football Club (2010-20), has served as Non-Executive Chairman of Vaughan Construction for the past five years, and continues to advise family groups and high net worth individuals.

Peter Thornely

Peter Thornely

Advisory Board

Peter is an Australian Partner and Lead in Corporate Finance for Grant Thornton’s national activity. Bringing substantial breadth of experience, his specific sector expertise resides in Manufacturing, Technology and Infrastructure; within those, Peter’s core competencies include Merger and Acquisitions as well as deal structuring.

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