Michael Bessell

Biography

Mr Bessell is AMP Capital’s Head of Origination and Separately Managed Accounts, Australia and New Zealand. He leads AMP Capital’s Australian and New Zealand origination team and also has responsibility for AMP Capital's $4 billion customised accounts infrastructure business. Mr Bessell has more than  23  years  of  investment  banking  and  investment  experience,  with  a focus  on mergers  and  acquisitions,  equity  raising  and  developing  infrastructure projects as a sponsor or principal across all infrastructure subsectors. He has worked in Europe and North America and has led teams undertaking investments in Europe, Australasia and North America. During the past five years, his team has transacted and executed investments with an enterprise value of more than $5 billion. He is a member of the AMP Capital Private Equity and Alternative Assets Investment committees, is on the global infrastructure management committee and serves as a director of a number of investee companies. Before joining AMP Capital in 2006, Mr Bessell served as a director at NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Ltd and worked for Schroders in Australia and the United Kingdom. Mr Bessell holds a Bachelor of Law (Honours) and a Bachelor of Economics, both from the Australian National University in Australia, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Mr Bessell was appointed to the Powerco Board in April 2015.

Research Interest

Financial Services