Paul Batchelor
Executive Chair
Paul has a 45 year international career spanning financial services, business services and investment. His corporate roles include Chairman, CEO, COO and CFO of a number of large financial institutions such as Colonial Limited and AMP Limited – which had $260 billion of assets under management and employed 25,000 people internationally under his leadership as CEO. Paul was formerly a partner in an international accounting firm and has worked in other listed companies and small to mid-sized private businesses.
His extensive transaction experience includes demutualisations, acquisitions, divestments and IPOs from $50 million to $20 billion.
In 2009 he co-founded private investment firm Yorkway Partners (now Yorkway Private).
Paul is currently a non-executive director of a number of Yorkway Private’s investee companies including Global Chair of Talent International, Chair of One Investment Group, Non-Executive Director of Infrastructure Advisory Group, Northland Group, Fitzpatricks Group and Insurance House Group.
He serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of the Australian Olympic Commission Foundation and was awarded the AOC Order of Merit in 2018 and the Centenary Medal in 2001. He established two of Australia’s largest foundations, the AMP Foundation and the Colonial Foundation.
Paul has operated on both sides of the boardroom table setting and executing strategic solutions, which he brings to his board roles and Yorkway Private investment interests.
As Executive Chairman of Yorkway Private and as a private investor himself, Paul is constantly looking to add value to businesses, their people, investors and to the communities in which we live and work.