Core Team

Quilla was founded by Andrew Connors and Mathew Jeremy who wanted to bring to market an independent offering, utilising decades of experience with blue chip brands across global markets and institutional investing. Our core investment team comprises highly experienced specialists who focus on creating solutions that minimise risk and deliver results. 

What differentiates our team is the depth and quality of their experience in managing money. 

Our team are supported by analysts, communications  and technology specialists. 

Andrew Connors, Managing Director

Mathew Jeremy, Director 

Andrew is a senior investment strategist with over 20 years’ experience in funds management gained in London and Australia. His experience includes working with some of the largest fund managers in Australia and globally including, MLC Investment Management, INVESCO and Deutsche Asset Management.
Andrew’s specialist experience in asset allocation and investment risk management has been utilised by leading corporations, not for profits, family offices, financial advisers and High Net Worth individuals.
Andrew places great emphasis on developing strong relationships with his clients. He does this through a focus on regular communication and working collaboratively. He also has a keen interest in utilising technology to help drive efficiencies. 
Andrew graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.
He is RG 146 Qualified.

Mathew began his career as an economist and policy adviser with the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. He spent most of his ten years at the Reserve Bank in the International Department and in 1983 was part of the team tasked with floating the Australian dollar.
Since the late 1980s, Mathew has held senior roles with major investment firms, including National Mutual Funds Management, Queensland Investment Corporation, and Suncorp Investment Management.
Through these roles, Mathew has gained valuable experience across a wide range of investment fields, including global economics and investment strategy, investment manager selection and portfolio construction. He has worked extensively on absolute return funds and how to use them in portfolios, while his quantitative analysis of investment manager performance is very highly regarded in the industry.
Mathew has degrees in economics from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University, as well as an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
He is RG 146 Qualified.

Michael Lange, Head of Manager Research

Nicholas Ward, Investment Consultant 

Michael specialises in investment manager research, portfolio construction and management. He leads our Manger Research program. 
Prior to joining Quilla, Michael spent over a decade working in a large boutique wealth management firm where he was a key member of the Investment Committee. 
Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and a Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning).  He is also a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA).

Nicholas is an experienced Investment Consultant with specialist portfolio construction and HNW consulting expertise.
Prior to joining Quilla, Nicholas worked at MLC where he held numerous roles including, most recently, working as a Senior Investment Consultant in their Private Investment Consulting team. Prior to that, Nicholas worked with Perennial Investment Partners as an Analyst.
He holds a Masters of Economics from Boston University and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Accounting) from Notre Dame University, and is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA). 

Sam Churchill, Portfolio & Investment Specialist 

Dr Stefano Cavaglia, Portfolio & Investment Specialist

Sam specialises in financial strategy, policy and economics. He consults to Quilla and is part of our Investment Committee. 
Sam has more than 10 years' experience including as: a Project Leader at the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership; a Senior Analyst for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; and an Associate at Boston Consulting group, working on organisational strategy. Most recently, he was a Portfolio Manager and Head of Macro Research for Magellan Financial Group. 
Sam holds a Masters Degree in Economic Development from the University of Oxford as well as a Bachelor of Economics (First Class Honours and University Medal) and a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Finance, from the University of Queensland.
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Stefano consults to Quilla and is part of our Investment Committee. 
He completed a PhD in Finance at the University of Chicago in 1990.  Since then he has been applying state of the art theory in the investment management profession.  In 1998, under the mentorship of Gary Brinson and Jeff Diermeir, he led the restructuring of UBS Asset Management’s Global Equity investment platform with a view to emphasise the importance of industry factors in the construction of global equity portfolios.  His team’s research work supporting the initiative was featured in the Financial Analyst Journal and is now referenced in the CFA curriculum.  Subsequently, he founded and managed a $1.3b hedge fund at UBS O’Connor, Chicago that corroborated his empirical findings.
His last assignment was as Head of Investment Research at Findex where he managed multi-asset class portfolios ($16b) for endowments and family offices.  His team developed factor-based tools for evaluating managers and for building fund of funds portfolios both long only and long/short mandates.  Some of his recent work aims to quantify and measure the importance of downside protection embedded in the factor attributes of portfolios; this was featured in the Journal of Portfolio Management and the CFA Annual Convention.   Presently, he is co-developing – with Invesco, Boston - novel multi-asset, factor-based completion portfolios and goals-based strategies.  
In addition to a PhD, Stefano holds an MBA from the University of California and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.

Chelsea Dunne, Client Engagement and Support

Andrew Lane, Investment Operations

Chelsea has more than 20 years' experience in client relationship management and business development roles.  Her experience includes working in senior roles with well known institutional brands in London and Australia.
Chelsea works across our team and functions to help support our clients,  including through the continual enhancement of our communications and collateral. 
She holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Marketing and Psychology).

Andrew is an investment operations specialist with more than 20 years' experience.
Andrew started his career in the United Kingdom and relocated to Australia in 2007 where he joined JPMorgan. Following this, he has worked with a number of well known fund managers. 
Andrew works closely with our investment team to support and enhance our investment systems and operational functions. ​