Brad Ridge
CEO/Principal Partner Grid Investment Capital |
Mr. Brad Ridge retains over 30 years of experience in international capital markets encompassing leadership roles across a vast array of listed/unlisted financial, equity, commodity markets and related technology platforms spanning a dozen countries across Australasia. Career highlights include eighteen years with the Tullett PLC group where he was part of the senior management team leading Foreign Exchange, Money Market, Interest Rate Swaps, Futures, Options, Credit, Equity, Fixed Income, and Commodity market teams, and encompassing all aspects of Voice/Hybrid/Electronic trading, Market Data, and Post Trade Services. In 2003, Brad joined ICAP PLC, the world’s largest inter-dealer broker, as Director of Capital Markets operations, Australian country CEO, and a member of the group’s Asian Executive Board Committee. In 2006 his commission with ICAP was extended to that of Director of Business and Development in Asia based out of Singapore. In this role he represented the public face of ICAP’s operations across 12 countries in AsiaPac, and was directly responsible for the company's growth and M&A opportunities across multifaceted group divisions. Concurrently, Brad has held private and public equity interests since the mid 1990s, and in 2011 relinquished his position at ICAP to found Grid Investment Capital as CEO and Principal Partner. Grid Investment Capital remains a private investment vehicle for Brad and his partner’s interests and boasts a strong track record of identifying high alpha return opportunities, employing capital, and realising return success spanning its targeted strategic market sectors. |