Bradley McCosker
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
Bradley co-founded ABE in March 2015 and has been a director of each ABE company since incorporation.
Bradley has over 25 years of experience in investment banking and in the financial markets, specifically with firms such as Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Bank, ABN Amro and Citibank.
Bradley was the Americas Head of the Client Coverage Group for Deutsche Bank in New York before returning to Australia in 2010.
Since returning to Australia, he was a Senior Adviser at the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority and Senior Manager for Risk Policy at ASX.
Bradley has a Bachelor of Economics and Master of Commerce from Macquarie University.
Bradley is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.
Michael Vanderdonk
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director
Michael co-founded ABE in March 2015 and has been a Director of the Company since incorporation.
Michael oversees the technical and engineering design of the infrastructure and systems of ABE.
Additionally, he heads ABE's evaluation of new technology, manages internal systems testing, and handles technical interface with key vendors.
Prior to ABE, Michael worked at EMC (now DellEMC) Asia on Infrastructure, Cloud based computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (machine learning), and Data Science for companies such as ANZ Bank, Singapore Government, Intel and AXIS Bank. Before his role at EMC Asia, he held roles with CSC Australia, KPMG Consulting and Credit Suisse.
Michael’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Science, GAICD.
Michael is the Chairperson of the Compliance, Audit and Risk Committee.
Steve Alperstein
Company Secretary
Steve has extensive company secretarial experience, having been the Company Secretary of CIBC Australia Ltd, Star City Holdings Ltd, TAB Limited, Solution 6 Holdings Limited, Ricegrowers’ Co-operative Limited (SunRice), Apollo Gas Ltd and Dart Energy Ltd over a long career in governance which included ASX and NASDAQ listings.
He has been the General Manager and Company Secretary of the Rose Property Group since 2005. He is also the honorary Company Secretary of Oz Harvest Ltd.
Steve has a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Law Degree and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and is admitted as a Solicitor in New South Wales.
Nick Baber
Managing Director (ABE Capital Markets Pte Ltd)
Nick has over 20 years of domestic and international banking experience within Investment Banking and Capital Markets at Citi, NAB, SMBC and Macquarie Bank. His extensive global markets career spans Sydney, London, Hong Kong and Singapore focusing on debt origination, distribution and trading of vanilla and structured products.
Nick is Managing Director of ABE Capital Markets Pte Ltd, the Singapore subsidiary of Australian Bond Exchange.
Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours), Bachelor of Banking, Finance and Risk Management and a Bachelor of International Business, all from Griffith University in Brisbane.