Meet the Emerging Companies team
Karen Chan
Head of Emerging Companies
Karen Chan
Head of Emerging Companies
Karen has over 17 years experience in principal investing, investment banking (M&A and capital markets advisory), consulting and law.
Karen joined Investec in 2018 and is the Head of the Emerging Companies team and is responsible for investment sourcing, deal execution and portfolio management. Karen has significant experience working with high growth early stage, pre-IPO as well as listed companies in the Asia Pacific region where she spent almost a decade in Technology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan.
Transaction experience includes Investec's investments in Vamp, Longtail UX, MadeComfy, Openpay, as well as leading the execution of a broad range of M&A and IPO/follow-on mandates for public and private companies.
Karen holds a Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney.
Sean Holland
Emerging Companies
Sean Holland
Emerging Companies
Sean has over 12 years of experience in investments, lending and consulting across early stage, corporate, government and infrastructure sectors. Previously, Sean was co-founder of a start-up in the forensic science automation industry, and joined Investec in 2012.
He has primary responsibilities for deal origination, execution and portfolio management and is an observer on multiple portfolio company boards. Sean manages several of IEC’s investments including H2, Pulse iD, MadeComfy and the Table Club. Recent transactions include equity, convertible loan, venture debt and restructure transactions with portfolio companies MadeComfy, Vamp and H2 Ventures. He also managed the structuring and implementation of the Investec Emerging Companies Australia Fund 1.
Sean holds a Mechatronics Engineer (Hons) and a Master of Applied Finance.
Shane Simon
Emerging Companies
Shane Simon
Emerging Companies
Shane has over 8 years of experience across early stage investing, venture debt, investment banking and equity derivatives trading in both Sydney and Silicon Valley.
Shane is primarily focused on deal origination, execution and portfolio management. He is also an observer on several portfolio company boards. Recent transaction experience includes equity and convertible investments in Longtail UX, Dresden Vision and Openpay as well as advising amaysim on its acquisition of Click Energy.
Prior to relocating to Australia in 2015, Shane specialised in venture debt for Series A – IPO technology companies in Silicon Valley. Shane holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, Masters of Finance from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Finance from Santa Clara University.
Karen Chan
Head of Emerging Companies
Karen has over 17 years experience in principal investing, investment banking (M&A and capital markets advisory), consulting and law.
Karen joined Investec in 2018 and is the Head of the Emerging Companies team and is responsible for investment sourcing, deal execution and portfolio management. Karen has significant experience working with high growth early stage, pre-IPO as well as listed companies in the Asia Pacific region where she spent almost a decade in Technology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan.
Transaction experience includes Investec's investments in Vamp, Longtail UX, MadeComfy, Openpay, as well as leading the execution of a broad range of M&A and IPO/follow-on mandates for public and private companies.
Karen holds a Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney.
Sean Holland
Emerging Companies
Sean has over 12 years of experience in investments, lending and consulting across early stage, corporate, government and infrastructure sectors. Previously, Sean was co-founder of a start-up in the forensic science automation industry, and joined Investec in 2012.
He has primary responsibilities for deal origination, execution and portfolio management and is an observer on multiple portfolio company boards. Sean manages several of IEC’s investments including H2, Pulse iD, MadeComfy and the Table Club. Recent transactions include equity, convertible loan, venture debt and restructure transactions with portfolio companies MadeComfy, Vamp and H2 Ventures. He also managed the structuring and implementation of the Investec Emerging Companies Australia Fund 1.
Sean holds a Mechatronics Engineer (Hons) and a Master of Applied Finance.
Shane Simon
Emerging Companies
Shane has over 8 years of experience across early stage investing, venture debt, investment banking and equity derivatives trading in both Sydney and Silicon Valley.
Shane is primarily focused on deal origination, execution and portfolio management. He is also an observer on several portfolio company boards. Recent transaction experience includes equity and convertible investments in Longtail UX, Dresden Vision and Openpay as well as advising amaysim on its acquisition of Click Energy.
Prior to relocating to Australia in 2015, Shane specialised in venture debt for Series A – IPO technology companies in Silicon Valley. Shane holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, Masters of Finance from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Finance from Santa Clara University.
Alexander Corder
Emerging Companies
Alexander Corder
Emerging Companies
Alexander has over 5 years of experience working across various finance and investment banking teams including real estate private equity and growth and acquisition finance.
Alexander is a qualified Chartered Accountant and completed his articles with Investec Bank Limited.
Qualifications include: Bachelor of Business Science (Finance and Accounting), Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (with distinction) from the University of Cape Town, Short course in Alternative Investments from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Claire Moloney
Emerging Companies
Claire Moloney
Emerging Companies
Claire has over 9 years of experience in financial services working across various sectors including audit, funds and banking.
Claire joined IEC in 2018 as Finance and Operations Manager responsible for the operational aspects of the Emerging Companies business unit and Fund activities including finance, investor relations and compliance. She also manages the audit and tax requirements and portfolio management of the IEC Fund I.
Prior to joining the IEC team, Claire has worked in the Group Finance team at Investec as a Management Accountant responsible for the statutory and management reporting for several entities and on-going budgeting and forecasting for the various businesses.
Prior to joining Investec in 2015, Claire worked with the Advice and Banking division in AMP as a Senior Business Analyst and also worked as Senior Fund Accountant with Citco Fund Services in Ireland which included the calculation of net asset values on a variety of hedge fund portfolios and maintaining investor relations. Claire started her career training as an Auditor with Mazars in Ireland in the Corporate and Assurance division performing external audits on various large and medium sized clients.
Claire is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Qualifications include: Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) specialising in Finance and Accounting.
Alexander Corder
Emerging Companies
Alexander has over 5 years of experience working across various finance and investment banking teams including real estate private equity and growth and acquisition finance.
Alexander is a qualified Chartered Accountant and completed his articles with Investec Bank Limited.
Qualifications include: Bachelor of Business Science (Finance and Accounting), Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (with distinction) from the University of Cape Town, Short course in Alternative Investments from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Claire Moloney
Emerging Companies
Claire has over 9 years of experience in financial services working across various sectors including audit, funds and banking.
Claire joined IEC in 2018 as Finance and Operations Manager responsible for the operational aspects of the Emerging Companies business unit and Fund activities including finance, investor relations and compliance. She also manages the audit and tax requirements and portfolio management of the IEC Fund I.
Prior to joining the IEC team, Claire has worked in the Group Finance team at Investec as a Management Accountant responsible for the statutory and management reporting for several entities and on-going budgeting and forecasting for the various businesses.
Prior to joining Investec in 2015, Claire worked with the Advice and Banking division in AMP as a Senior Business Analyst and also worked as Senior Fund Accountant with Citco Fund Services in Ireland which included the calculation of net asset values on a variety of hedge fund portfolios and maintaining investor relations. Claire started her career training as an Auditor with Mazars in Ireland in the Corporate and Assurance division performing external audits on various large and medium sized clients.
Claire is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Qualifications include: Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) specialising in Finance and Accounting.