Stephen Walsh

Mr. Stephen Walsh is a Co-Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager at Eight Investment Partners Pty Ltd.
He has over 28 years of work experience in management consulting and financial markets.
He started his career at Lloyds Merchant Bank in London in 1987.
Mr. Walsh moved into Management Consulting with LEK Consulting, advising corporations on corporate strategy and M&A and studied for an MBA at INSEAD in France in 1995.
He returned to financial markets in 1996, initially at Credit Agricole WI Carr Securities in Indonesia and Singapore.
He led Consumer Sector Research across Asia ex-Japan and was ranked number one Consumer Analyst in Asia in the region.
Moving to Australia in 2000, Mr. Walsh joined Macquarie Bank’s Equities Research division in Sydney as Division Director leading Australian Banks Research.
He then joined Small Cap Specialist Broker and Funds Manager Wilson HTM as Head of Research.
He was promoted to Head of Equities with responsibility across Equities Research, Institutional Sales and Corporate Finance / Equity Capital Markets.
Mr. Walsh holds a Bachelor and Master of Arts from Cambridge University, and an MBA from INSEAD on a Louis Franck Scholars