Jeff Swingler is a businessman, Chartered Accountant and banker with exposure to the mining sector.
His accounting career progressed into a technology, systems and infrastructure focus during nine years with Visy Industries, seeding various technologies, developing strategy and building new paper mills and box plants in Australia and the US. His interest in energy developed through R&D and implementation of energy co-generation, recycling, biofuels and markets. Visy sponsored his participation in CSIRO’s Business Higher Education Round Table Leadership program.
Mr Swingler was a director of ANZ Securities, ANZ Corporate Finance and other ANZ businesses across the investment bank in the late 1990s; and was involved in overseeing the floats of various companies and refinancing before becoming global head of equity risk for ANZ.
Mr Swingler spent 25 years working across corporate innovation, technology business startups, garnering financing from angels and venture capital through to Institutional Investors. He was Australia’s senior investment specialist for energy and resources at Austrade in 2014, working across the spectrum of projects including LNG developments, renewable energy developments, and kickstarting the Federal Government’s commercial support for critical materials and rare earths. Mr Swingler was also the Federal Government's representative to the Cooper Basin Gas Roundtable.
He holds a Bachelor of Business from RMIT and a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University.
