Frederick Kempson

Frederick Kempson has been the managing director of Kempson Capital, which provides corporate consulting for domestic and international companies, high net-worth individuals and family offices, in relation to their capital and debt structure since 2001.

Mr Kempson has had a distinguished career in investment banking, starting with the Reserve Bank of Australia licenced official money market dealer (Trans City Discount), followed by an association in London with Bank of England licenced Gillett Brothers Discount House. In the early 1980s, he became the managing director of Australian Investment Finance, a consortium investment bank whose shareholders included ANZ, Bank of Montreal, Irving Trust and Mitsubishi. In 1985, he was appointed by Security Pacific National Bank Los Angeles as chief executive of Security Pacific Australia to set up its operations in Australia and New Zealand. He was also appointed the Australian Representative of The Bank of New York IMB (Geneva).