Palisade Investment Partners has announced the appointment of Jon Cook as Head of Investment Operations.
Jon Cook joins Palisade's investment operations team with over 17 years' business experience. He is an operations and finance executive with more than seventeen years experience in diverse industries, nine years of which have been spent working internationally.
Mr Cook has a depth of corporate and commercial experience, underpinned by a breadth of consulting expertise across Finance, M&A, Advisory, Audit and Private Business Services in a number of geographic regions including USA, Europe and Australia.
Jon has previously worked for Dakota Capital as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to this he has worked as General Manager at CSR and a Finance Director - Building Products at Hansons, among other.
Jon has a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Business Law) from Macquarie University and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.
Palisade Investment Partners has also announced that it has signed a new $100m direct investment mandate with a major Australian superannuation fund. The mandate is expected to coinvest with the Palisade Diversified Infrastructure Fund in Australian mid-market infrastructure assets.