Aurora Funds Management Limited (Aurora) is pleased to announce the Board has appointed Mr John Taylor as an external member of the Responsible Entity’s Compliance Committee to replace Mr Jim Hallam who has resigned. John’s appointment will take effect immediately.
John is a practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in the finance industry, working with clients on strategic issues relating to risk management, compliance, corporate governance, legislative change, formation research, stakeholder relationships and ethics. Sectors he has been involved in include managed funds, listed trusts, superannuation, trustee companies and building societies.
John is currently an Executive Director of Lexington Consulting Group, a specialist consulting group that provides advice on legislative change, risk management, compliance, capital raisings and establishment of new ventures. John is also the originator and co-convenor of the Independent Compliance Committee Forum and Chairman of the Cremorne Capital Limited Compliance Committee, a position he has held for more than 10 years.
Formerly, John was the Executive Director of Intertextual Pty Ltd, which developed risk and compliance management software program currently being used by many of Australia’s major superannuation funds, the Managing Director of Colonial Mutual Fund Ltd and General Manager of the Permanent Trustee Company Limited.