IFM Board Members

   

Garry Weaven 

BEc, Dip. Ed (Latrobe)

Garry Weaven is Chair of Industry Funds Management, a leading investment service provider to the superannuation industry.
 
He is also a Director of Members Equity Bank, which is owned by 36 superannuation funds, and of Pacific Hydro, a world leader in renewable energy. He is also a Board Member of VicUrban, the Victorian Government's residential and urban renewal development agency, and was a foundation board member of Melbourne's Docklands Authority.
 
He was recently appointed to the Federal Government's Superannuation Advisory Committee and to Infrastructure Australia the body charged with advising Government on priorities for infrastructure.
 
His involvement with the superannuation and funds management industry follows a successful career in the union movement which culminated in being elected Assistant Secretary of the ACTU in 1986.
 
He played a seminal role in the development of the industry superannuation fund movement and in 1994 founded Industry Fund Services, a diversified financial services provider, which was successfully merged with Members Equity Bank in 2007.

 

    

Anna Booth 

BEc (USyd)

Anna Booth is a former director of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (“SOCOG”), Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Road Motorists Association, former Chair of Industry Funds Investments Limited and member of the Westpac Customer Committee.

Anna played a dominant role in the trade union movement as National Secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia and as Junior Vice President of the ACTU during the 1980s and 1990s.

She is a fellow of the Macquarie University Labour-Management Studies Foundation, and chairs the Mothers Day Classic Sydney Organising Committee which stages an annual event to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Anna is a Director of Industry Super Holdings, ME Bank, CoSolve, Ausflag, Slater and Gordon and The Centre for Policy Development.

 

Brian Pollock

Fellow (API), Senior Associate (ANZIIF)

Brian Pollock has over 35 years experience in superannuation, financial services and property investment.

Brian retired as Executive Director Property and Lending with AXA Asia Pacific Group (formerly National Mutual Group) in July 1998. A former National President, he is one of only seven members to have been awarded National Life Membership of the Property Council of Australia. He was also Chairman of ISPT Pty Ltd for six years from 1998 to 2004.

Brian is a Director of Industry Super Holdings, ME Bank, Clive Peeters, Becton Property Group, Programmed Maintenance Services, A E Smith & Son Pty Ltd and Chair of the Macquarie Real Estate Equity Fund series of companies.

 

 

Michael Migro

Michael Migro has had a broad and extensive career in funds management and financial services, both domestically and more recently, in the USA spanning over 35 years.

He has had significant leadership responsibilities in various capacities as Head of Business Strategy (BT Funds Management), Joint Managing Director (Westpac Financial Services), CEO (Perpetual Funds Management and Principal Global Investors Australia), and most recently in the USA as COO (Principal Global Investors) and President and Chief Operating Officer (Post Advisory Group LLC).

 

Murray Bleach

CPA, MAppFin, BA (Financial Studies)

Murray commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick in Sydney, Australia and Dallas, Texas.

In 1987 he joined Bankers Trust Australia, where he worked in Capital Markets, Structured Finance. As part of Macquarie Bank's acquisition of Bankers Trust Australia, Murray moved to Macquarie in 1999.

Murray transferred to Macquarie's New York office in 2000 to lead and develop the North American Infrastructure business. In 2004 Murray was appointed Head of North America and Director and Co-CEO of Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc and President of Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. Murray returned to Australia in 2008 to become Global Head of Macquarie's Private Placements Group.

Murray retired from Macquarie Group in December 2009 and took up the position as Interim CEO of Intoll in early 2010.