THE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
Over the course of the next decade, Nicholas became an instrumental figure within Macquarie’s corporate services division, with a broad remit across a range of transactions including Sydney’s Hills Motorway, a deal that gave rise to the establishment of the firm’s infrastructure business. Upon its formation in 2001, Nicholas was appointed Head of Macquarie’s Investment Banking Group (now known as Macquarie Capital), overseeing remarkable progress over the course of the next seven years including ten-fold growth in net income as well as global expansion for the group’s operations across advisory, funds management and financing - this included some 3,600 team members working in more than fifty offices and twenty countries throughout the World. In February 2008, Macquarie announced to the market that Nicholas Moore would be appointed the firm’s next Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, becoming only the fifth person in the organisations near forty-year history. Having been appointed in the depths of the Global Financial Crisis, Nicholas transformed the business over the course of the ensuing decade (2008 - 2018) - de-risking the business model through strategic acquisition, global expansion into funds management & infrastructure investment, and an emphasis on annuity-style income. In unquestionably one of the firm’s most defining decades across it’s storied fifty-year history, Nicholas ushered in a new era for Macquarie Group - building upon the firm’s unique risk management framework and celebrated bottom-up approach to the identification of opportunity and employee empowerment, he steered the organisation’s presence on a global stage, perhaps most distinctly illustrated via the lifting of the firm’s international income by 67 percent, a portfolio of assets under management that exceeded $550bn, a revenue base through which 70% of income was derived offshore and a 300 percent increase in shareholder returns - an extraordinary legacy of success. Following a thirty-three-year career at Macquarie Group, including close to eleven years as CEO, Nicholas stepped down in 2018 and began focusing on a number of projects and ventures that presented him with new opportunity to contribute his considerable skillset & expertise across both public and professional life. Nicholas currently holds several significant chairmanships and directorships, including Chairman of Willow Technology Corporation, Screen Australia, The Centre for Independent Studies, The Smith Family, and the National Catholic Education Commission. In a rare and exclusive profile, Nicholas discusses his incredible journey, from re-shaping a global financial powerhouse with over 15,000 employees across the World, to leading some of Australia’s most important philanthropic organisations - sharing the key lessons for success, and life, along the way.
October / November 2024 – 13
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