Overview

Gender

male

Lex McArthur is a Managing Partner at Jolimont Capital, which he founded with Charles Gillies in 2003. His strengths are in deal structuring, transaction negotiation and business strategies. Lex works actively in developing growth and exit strategies with each of his investee companies and in guiding and mentoring the CEOs and senior management. He is currently a Director of Park Assist, Space Time Research, Daintree Networks, Redfern Optical Components, and HumanWare.

Prior to founding Jolimont Capital, Lex was CEO of ADI, a technology seed investor whose shareholders included Babcock & Brown and Ernst & Young. Previously, he was CEO of Emerge CMC Ltd, a joint venture between leading IT vendors including Oracle, NEC, Telstra and four major universities to commercialise online and multimedia business applications. Lex's professional experience and contacts span a range of industry sectors including investment, IT and mining. It includes two start-up IT businesses that Lex founded and operated between 1992 and 1996, and two years as Business Development Manager at Melbourne IT in its formative years.

Lex has a B.Eng (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, a Post Grad Dip in Mineral Economics and is a FINSIA Associate.