Mark Waller

Mr Waller's experience is in the technology and financial services sectors. He has experience in listing a company, M&A and capital raisings. Mark worked for a small firm in public practice before moving to Ernst & Young in 2002. Mark then moved overseas establishing his own business in the construction industry which he ran for eighteen months before selling the business and moving back to Perth. Achievements at Empired included growing the business from 20 to nearly 1,000 people and expanding from WA to every state in Australia as well as Singapore, New Zealand and North America, growing revenue from $2m to $160m (while maintaining an average 10% profit margin throughout such growth) and listing the company on ASX in 2007. In 2021 the company was acquired for $233m. In 2017, Mark and his business partner started 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.