Paul Russell has over 15 years of institutional banking experience with Australia's financial institutions as a senior structured asset finance practitioner. Operating out of Sydney, he originated and executed transactions for large corporates, governments and institutional relationships across Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Ranging from big-ticket capex funding for mining, aviation and marine equipment through to portfolio finance for specialised non-bank financial institutions, his transaction and relationship experience has covered a range of industries, jurisdictions, regulatory frameworks and credit profiles.
As director of structured asset finance at Westpac Institutional Bank, Mr Russell was involved in building a portfolio of direct and third-party originated receivables, relationship management, product development, credit structuring & evaluation, and growing the bank's debt capital markets business. His work included a number of portfolio acquisition opportunities in addition to ongoing funding of new business.
