As a Member of Dacent REIT’s Board Advisory Council, John Pacholski brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise that is directly relevant to Project AlphaNOC and Dacent’s real estate development plans.
As a Member of Dacent REIT’s Board Advisory Council, John Pacholski brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise that is directly relevant to Project AlphaNOC and Dacent’s real estate development plans.
John is a Director and Principal of Freshwater Group of Companies. Over a career spanning nearly 40 years John has held a number of company director, chief financial officer and corporate advisory roles where his focus has been on securing project finance, project and finance risk assessment, due diligence, structuring and financing major transactions in infrastructure, property, mergers and acquisitions and funds management.
John graduated from the University of Technology with a Bachelor of Business Studies (Accounting) and currently holds an Australian Financial Services License (AFSL).
During a 16-year career with Lend Lease Group, John was initially involved in accounting and corporate governance positions with Civil & Civic (now Bovis Lend Lease), Lend Lease Petroleum and Lend Lease Engineering (the latter two being infrastructure and engineering companies). As his career evolved his responsibilities expanded to strategic CFO roles within the Group during the period that Lend Lease positioned as the second largest fund manager in the Australian market behind AMP and one of Australian most respected conglomerates.
During the 1990’s that Lend Lease continued its steady and continuous growth in profits and assets under management with expansion of funds into Asia, the acquisition of the Yarmouth fund’s management group in the USA, the purchase of a minority interest in Westpac Banking Group and an expansion of the company’s construction interests through acquisition and expansion in the UK and USA. During this strategic growth period John’s role included strategy reviews; the assessment of risk profiles and products for corporate and project financing; due diligence, structuring and reviewing domestic and foreign acquisitions and potential acquisitions; and the structuring of debt and equity to maximise shareholder returns for the various domestic and foreign investments of the Lend Lease Group in the USA, UK and Asia.
John joined Westpac Banking Corporation as Chief Manager – Corporate and Institutional Property Finance. John’s teams were responsible for the development of unique financing solutions for high value, complex property transactions. The portfolio of clients included Australia’s leading Contractors and Developers and Property Trusts (REITS) and the projects funded included a number of significant commercial precinct developments and the Sydney Olympic Village.
John started an advisory business and has provided consulting, corporate and debt advisory services to Federal and State governments, public corporations and private companies. He was retained on two long-term private financing panel advisory contracts with The Department of Defence and SA Department of Infrastructure and Major Projects to advise on private financing initiatives (PFI), public private partnerships (PPP) and finance risk.
More recently, John has focused his attentions on developing a regulated investment framework for the development of specific purpose funds and funding models to deliver a range of projects in infrastructure and real estate in a regulated framework. John is licensed to provide advice, deal and provide custodial services to wholesale clients for a broad range of asset classes, derivatives and foreign exchange. The current AFSL licence is held within the Freshwater Group.
John’s broad global experience has enabled him to develop unique business and risk management solutions in a variety of international jurisdictions in a career, which has afforded him the opportunity to represent both borrowers and lenders and negotiate with the providers of debt and equity finance and asset delivery solutions for infrastructure and real estate assets.