John Hartman

John Hartman is chief investment officer at Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s investment company Tattarang. Since June 2020, he has also been a director of Tattarang. He joined the group in 2012, initially as a researcher, according to press reports. He subsequently ran Tattarang’s agribusiness arm, Harvest Road Group, for which he has been a director since 2014. He is also a director of the group’s mining arm (Wyloo Metals) and energy business (Squadron Energy), since 2017. In addition, he is a director of Sydney-based Sun Cable, which plans to develop a giant solar power station in the Northern Territory to supply energy to Singapore. Squadron Energy is an investor in Sun Cable. Mr Hartman is a graduate of the University of Sydney (2007) and in his early twenties was convicted of insider trading while working for Orion Asset Management.