Wealth Symposium
2026 | NSW

With over 25 years of experience in financial services, Mark Zaglas is Principal of Evidentia Group’s business consulting arm – Encore Advisory. He leads with a simple belief: that owners of advice businesses deserve better returns on their business and life – and that there is no better cause than helping them to deliver more and better life-changing advice to the Australian community.

Mark and the Encore team work alongside financial planning, mortgage broking, and accounting firms to help them scale sustainably, build strong leadership and sales teams, and create exceptional client experiences.

Mark’s signature strengths have been honed over two decades of developing 100s of profitable Sales and Financial Services businesses and understanding what lies at the heart of their success. A trusted adviser to advice business owners across Australia, Mark brings clarity, confidence, and practical strategies that drive commercial and cultural results.

Mark’s strength lies in uncovering what’s truly important (your why) and building new capability (i.e. implementing) to help businesses get to where they want to go. As an experienced business leader and performance coach, he draws on his real-world view of sales and leadership to help clients improve performance and realise their business and human potential.

Damon, has more than 26 years of experience partnering with financial planning practices, including some of Australia’s leading firms. In his role, Damon works with advice practices to enhance the value they deliver to clients and support the growth of their businesses. He holds a Diploma of Financial Planning, a Bachelor of Business, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Tax and Financial Planning, and a Bachelor of Laws.

Jonathan is the Fund Manager, responsible for strategy execution, portfolio construction, capital management, and overall investment performance, including the assessment of corporate transactions. He also oversees Charter Hall Direct, managing over $8bn of assets across more than 120 properties and 15 multi-sector strategies.

He has over 15 years’ experience in commercial real estate across Australia and North America. Prior to his current role, he was an Investment Manager within Charter Hall’s diversified listed and institutional platform, managing a diversified portfolio. He holds CAIA accreditation, is a registered property valuer, and previously worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs.

Rob is a co-portfolio manager on the Broad Markets Team and lead portfolio manager on the Multi Sector Credit and Impact Bond portfolios, at Wellington Management. As a fixed income portfolio manager, Rob develops strategic and tactical investment strategies using both fundamental and quantitative analysis and implements those strategies in portfolios. He also focuses on portfolio construction and risk management, and is a member of the Sector Strategy and High Yield Strategy groups.

Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2007, Rob worked as a senior mechanical engineer modeling high power lasers at Lockheed Martin Corporation (2003 – 2005). Before that, he held engineering positions in the telecom and manufacturing industries (1998 – 2003).

Rob earned his MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago (2007) and his MS and BS in mechanical engineering from MIT (1998, 1997). Additionally, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Haran is a fixed income investment director at Capital Group. He has 21 years of industry experience and has been with Capital Group for five years. Prior to joining Capital, Haran worked as a senior vice president and fixed income strategist at PIMCO. He holds an MBA from London Business School and a bachelor’s degree in commerce, majoring in finance and economics, from University of Sydney. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Haran is based in Sydney.

Jason holds over 20 years of experience in the financial industry working at some of Australia’s largest Institutional Fund Managers, Global Investment Banks and Hedge Funds as a Portfolio Manager, Consultant, Quantitative Developer and Risk Manager.

Jason has worked closely with investors, advisors, and investment committees to design and implement strategies for Private Wealth Groups, Family Offices, Financial Advisory Firms and Superannuation Funds. He managed $900 million in assets for BT Investment Management (now Pendal) in Australian Equities and Derivatives, Global Macro strategies, and built hedging overlays for Industry Super Funds. In Asia, Jason worked at multibillion-dollar Hedge Funds managing long short equity portfolios and hedging solutions. Prior to this he worked at Barclays Capital and Merrill Lynch in London.

Jason holds a Masters in Quantitative Finance from Bond University and a Bachelor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Flinders University.

David brings 20 years of industry experience to his role as a Client Portfolio Manager at GQG Partners, where he has been for the past three years. David began his career in banking and financial advice, in roles encompassing mortgage lending and advice research. 

More recently David has held senior roles in superannuation and investment product development, key account management and business analytics. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Economics from the University of Queensland and a Diploma of Financial Planning from Griffith University.

Andrew is a portfolio manager within the PM Capital global equities team, with a particular focus on the materials and industrials sectors. Prior to joining PM Capital in November 2020, Andrew spent a decade at Macquarie Bank as a research analyst in North America and Australia where he covered a range of sectors, before moving to a prominent family office to manage a global equity portfolio.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (Finance) from the University of Sydney.

Chris founded Longview Economics in 2003. It is an independent advisory business specialising in Global Asset Allocation, Investment Advice, Cyclical and Thematic Global Macro & Fundamental Commodity research. The company also generates regular trading advice on equity index, and other, futures.

Prior to founding Longview Economics, Chris worked in the City of London for 12 years with Cazenove and CAI Cheuvreux as a global economist and strategist. He also held roles as an Equity Analyst and Corporate Financier at Cazenove in the mid 1990s. Chris qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and holds Master’s & Bachelor’s degrees in Economics. He regularly chairs & speaks at global investment conferences, is often quoted in the financial press and appears frequently on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN & other media outlets. He is also an Ambassador for WeSeeHope – a charity which is about the generation of hope and which supports children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa affected by HIV/AIDS.