Dr Luke Kirke
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Luke has over 25 years’ experience through various roles with Australia’s most reputable organizations, working across sectors including infrastructure (social, private and public), property as well as international capital markets. Firms have included the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), Queensland Treasury Corp (QTC), Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Booz Allen Hamilton, Energex and Aurizon to name a few.

Outside of this work, Luke has provided reviews on critical infrastructure including the Central Queensland Coal Network in assessing the economic productivity of the entire resource/commodity supply chain; assessing the economic impacts of the mining industry upon regulated rail infrastructure under the authority of Essential Services Commission of South Australia; reviewing the pricing on the Hunter Valley Coal Network under the authority of the Australian Rail Track Corporation; submitted reviews towards the Harper Review in the shaping of national competition policy; as well as providing expert witness testimony on the pricing of infrastructure assets that have been in commercial dispute and litigation.

Luke has also attained extensive academic qualifications including a degree in Bachelor of Business (Banking & Finance), a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment, a Master of Applied Finance, a PhD in Corporate Finance specialising in Financial Economic, as well as various, short courses including at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.

When combined, educational experience constitutes some seventeen (17) years of tertiary academic studies within the corporate finance speciality above and beyond Luke’s employment experience.