Mr Deane is a managing director of Exto Partners Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based private investment firm specialising in technology ventures. He is the director of several of Exto Partners unlisted investee companies including Block 3 Ventures, Tribe Group, Tuned Global and Zetaris. He has practised as a corporate lawyer in Australia with Ashurst (formerly Blake Dawson) and in the United States with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Sidley Austin LLP. As a lawyer he focused on equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. He is Chair of Risk Management Committee.