Anne Thoume, B Tec, MBA (Chair)Anne Thoume has extensive experience in the commerce, banking and trustee industries. Beginning as a trust officer, and moving into management of unit trusts, she has acted as both Manager – Trust and Corporate and Company Secretary of a major international bank. She has also worked as a senior executive with Perpetual Trustees (WA) Ltd and as General Manager of a Singaporean trust company. As a former director of Professional Funds Management Pty Ltd, Anne was responsible for the day to day operations and administration of that company’s trustee and corporate service division.
Robert Garton Smith, LLB, B Com, GDipFinPlanning (Sec Inst), F Fin (Managing Director)Robert Garton Smith is the Managing Director and owner of Primary Securities Ltd and has been its key person in relation to managed investments since incorporation. He has degrees in law, commerce and financial planning and is a legal practitioner as well as being a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia. He is a member of the Law Society of Western Australia and the Australian Compliance Institute.
Robert Garton Smith has worked in the area of managed investments since preparing Australia's first feature film prospectus in 1981. He has prepared and overseen dozens of managed investment schemes relating to film, forestry, viticulture, horticulture, manufacturing, equities and real estate, and also prepared share, debenture stock and unsecure notes issues. Robert Garton Smith has practiced law since 1970 and is admitted as a practitioner in Western Australia, the federal courts, New South Wales and in England and Wales. He remains the principal of the corporate and commercial law practice Garton Smith & Co, which now has small practice advising in relation to managed investments, corporate, real estate and intellectual property.
He is on the board of several unlisted public technology companies.
Brian Millmore, B Ec, GDipAppFin (Sec Inst), F Fin, PNA (Director)Brian Millmore is a compliance professional specialising in the banking, funds management and financial planning industries. He has substantial experience in dealing with regulatory compliance issues, implementing and managing compliance plans and systems and the development and management of managed funds in both superannuation and unit trusts. Brian is a graduate in Economics and holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment and diplomas in accounting and company secretarial practice.
Anthony Treadgold, B Com, CPAAnthony Treadgold began his career in professional accounting after completing his degree at the University of Western Australia, firstly with Deloittes and later with Arthur Andersen. He specialised in business start ups and work outs and moved to London and later Hong Kong. Anthony returned to Australia after 8 years overseas and joined the Bank of Boston to start up a new Merchant Bank operation in Perth. He developed expertise in tax effective financing and innovative financial solutions for business.
In recent years Anthony has developed vineyards in the south west of Western Australia and followed his love of wine into production of super premium wines on a modest commercial scale. Anthony is an executive director, being the analyst and financial controller of the Responsible Entity. He also holds directorships in other companies involved in managed investment schemes and in technology companies.
Barbara Boyd, BA(Hons), FCISBarbara Boyd was appointed Company Secretary of Primary Securities Ltd and Australian Growth Managers Limited in December 2005. She was elected an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (UK) in 1983 and became a Fellow in 1990. She has held various company secretarial positions including lecturing in Company Secretarial Practice at Curtin University of Technology.
Anna Catelli, B Juris, LLB, Dip EdAnna Catelli is an associate of Garton Smith and Co. She was admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1981 and apart from her position as Complaints Officer with Australian Growth Managers Limited and Primary Securities Ltd she conducts the general practice of Garton Smith & Co, namely: property transactions, wills, probate and administration applications, enduring powers of attorney, leases and other mercantile documentation. Her association with Garton Smith & Co commenced in 1989.
Natasha OlsenNatasha Olsen is our Office Manager and Custodial Officer. Natasha has an Advanced Certificate in Office Administration and Secretarial Studies obtained in 1998 at Olympia Business College. She also has an accredited certificate from the Law Society of Western Australia following completion of a Legal Assistants Training Course. Natasha is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Notre Dame University on a part time basis.