Wayne Gooley has over 25 years of experience in the securities and financial services industries and is the founding shareholder of Novus Capital. He is directly responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the Novus group of companies. Mr Gooley has an extensive background in the corporate advisory, merchant banking and financial services industries with a particular focus in corporate advisory, mergers and acquisitions, and capital raisings generally. Before establishing Novus in March 2001, he was head of corporate services at one of Australia’s largest retail financial planning and stockbroking groups where he was responsible for initiating its corporate services business and managing its growth from inception to ultimately advising upon (or arranging) all of its corporate transactions. Prior to that, Mr Gooley was an associate director of a merchant bank specialising in corporate advisory and equity raisings, and later in the corporate finance division of Westpac Banking Corporation. His earlier experience also included a period of seven years with the Australian Stock Exchange where he specialised in the Business and Listing Rules of the ASX.
