Paul Chrystall - Managing Director
Paul is Managing Director of Maui Capital and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Maui Capital Indigo Fund.
Paul is one of New Zealand’s most prominent private equity managers. He has approximately 30 years of business experience in private investment, senior management, finance and corporate finance.
Prior to co-founding Maui Capital in 2008, Paul was Head of Private Equity at Goldman Sachs JBWere (NZ) (2001 to 2007), where he...
Brent Lawgun - Director
Brent is an Executive Director of Maui Capital and an Investment Committee member of the Maui Capital Indigo Fund.
Brent brings extensive experience in private equity, mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and law.
Prior to co-founding Maui Capital, Brent was a Director of Private Equity at Goldman Sachs JBWere (2002 – 2007), where he managed the firm's private equity activities in New Zealand, including the Hauraki Private Equity No. 1...
Mike Smith - Director
Mike is an Investment Committee member of the Maui Capital Indigo Fund.
Mike has more than 40 years of business experience, and is one of New Zealand’s most prominent public company and private equity fund directors.
Mike is currently a director of the Hauraki Private Equity No. 2 Fund, and was a director of the Hauraki No. 1 Fund. He is also a director of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation (Deputy Chairman), ING (NZ) Holdings...
Glenn Wallace - Director
Glenn is an Investment Committee member of the Maui Capital Indigo Fund.
Glenn has more than 30 years of business experience. He is currently Managing Director of Norfolk Group, an Australasian industrial services business which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:NFK). Norfolk Group is a company in which the Maui Capital Indigo Fund recently acquired a strategic stake, and was previously a major and very successful investment of the Hauraki...
John Sandford - Chief Financial and Operations Officer
John is Chief Financial and Operations Officer at Maui Capital.
Prior to joining Maui Capital, John was Chief Operations Officer – Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs JBWere based in Sydney. In that role, John and his team were responsible for (amongst other things) managing the operations of the firm’s Private Equity and other Merchant Banking operations, including the Hauraki Private Equity No. 1 and No. 2 Funds. Prior to that appointment,...
Alistair Birks - Investment Manager
Alistair is an Investment Manager at Maui Capital.
Alistair brings extensive experience in mergers & acquisitions, specialist valuation, financial modeling and due diligence.
Prior to joining Maui Capital, Alistair was a Senior Manager in the Transaction Advisory Services team at Ernst & Young, where he was employed from 2002 to 2008. During his time with Ernst & Young, Alistair worked on a number of high profile transactions for a...
Matthew Maher - Associate
Matthew is an Associate at Maui Capital.
Prior to joining Maui Capital, Matthew was an Associate - Private Equity at Goldman Sachs JBWere, based in Auckland, where he was employed from 2006 to 2008. Matthew worked on a number of the investments and divestments of the Hauraki No. 1 and No. 2 Funds as well as other Merchant Banking Division opportunities.
In addition, Matthew has previously worked in the Corporate Finance Department at...
