Mark Waller
Managing Director
Mark has experience ranging from financial management, ASX listings, M&A and capital raisings. He has a degree in Commerce majoring in Law and Accounting and is an FCPA.
Mark’s core skill is in strategy setting and driving businesses towards achieving that strategy. Mark has strong financial and analytical skills which have aided him in his successes.
After a period of working at Ernst & Young Mark joined Empired Limited, then an unlisted public company. From 2005 to 2016 Mark was the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary Empired Ltd which included listing the company in 2007 (ASX:EPD). Major achievements at Empired were:
- Growing the business from 20 people to nearly 1,000 people.
- Expanding from WA to every state in Australia as well as Singapore, New Zealand and North America.
- Growing revenue from $2m to $160m. Maintaining an average 10% profit margin throughout the growth.
- Listing Empired on ASX in 2007.
- Divestment of noncore assets.
- Acquisition of six companies to assist in accelerating the company’s strategy.
- Consolidation of core operating systems and reporting across the business.
From 2006 to 2010 Mark was also a Director of public unlisted company BigRedSky Limited. After divesting this asset from Empired and raising a small amount of money, an online candidate management system was built and commercialised growing from one customer to over a hundred in a small period of time, surpassing the breakeven point at which time Thomson Reuters acquired the business.
In 2017 Mark and his business partner founded Forrest Private Wealth via the acquisition of three businesses. Forrest Private Wealth is a growing wealth management business with over $150m in funds under management and over 500 clients Australia wide.
In 2018 Mark started working with the team at One Click Life and later joined the Board of Directors and then as Managing Director. One Click Life listed in 2022 and has since seen a large growth in its customer base and is well poised for it's next growth phase.