John Nicolis
Vice Chairman
John Nicolis is Managing Director of Optimal Fund Management, a Sydney, Australia-based investment management company with over US $2.4 Billion in assets; he specializes in Asia Pacific equities.
Mr. Nicolis has almost 20 years' experience in equity sales with Salomon Brothers (Citigroup) and has spent a considerable portion of this time working in Tokyo. More recently, he was based in Melbourne as Head of Equities for Japan, Asia and Australia with overall responsibility for marketing of the company's brokering services as well as the company’s operational activities.
Mr. Nicolis holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Japanese and Chinese.