Our Story - 20+ years in the making

Paul Clitheroe, AM AM, B.A. (UNSW), SNF Fin, CFP Chairman

Paul Clitheroe is a founding director of leading financial planning firm ipac, and has been involved in the investment industry since he graduated from UNSW in the late 1970s. Paul has been a media commentator and conference speaker for more than 30 years, and is regarded as one of Australia's leading experts in the field of personal investment strategies and advice. From 1993 to 2002, Paul hosted the popular Channel 9 program Money and since 1999 has been the chairman and chief commentator of Money magazine. He currently writes for newspapers across Australia and presents Talking Money on radio nationally.

Effie Zahos Chief Content Officer & Money Commentator

Effie is one of Australia's leading personal finance commentators with more than two decades of experience helping Australians make the most of their money. A regular money expert on Channel 9's Today Show and on radio around Australia, Effie is also the author of The Great $20 Adventure and A Real Girl's Guide to Money and Ditch the Debt and Get Rich.

Effie was Editor-at-Large of Canstar for four years and now acts as an ambassador for the comparison site. She was also editor of Money magazine until 2019, having helped establish it in 1999.

Passionate about financial literacy, Effie sits on the board of directors for Ecstra, a not-for-profit organisation committed to building the financial capability of all Australians.

Effie holds a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the University of Queensland. She is the proud mother of two children who are beginning to build on their own financial freedom.

Alan Kohler, AM Founder-Eureka Report

Alan Kohler is one of Australia's most experienced business commentators. Alan has been a trusted source of investment advice to Australians for many years, and in 2005 he founded Eureka Report - Australia's #1 online investment report. Along with Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz, Alan also founded Business Spectator, the popular business news and commentary website now owned by News Corp. He has been a columnist and editor at the Australian Financial Review and The Age. Alan is the regular finance presenter on the ABC News and producer of the popular nightly graph (or two) and writes a regular column for the New Daily.

Ron Hodge B.Com, B.Econ, MSc. Info Tech, GAICD, SF FIN Managing Director

Ron has worked in financial services for over 25 years, including UBS in Singapore and Bell Commodities in Sydney and founded InvestSMART in 1999. Ron holds a Masters degree in Computer Science, Bachelor Degrees in Commerce and Economics, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investments and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Alastair Davidson B Ec (Hons), CA Head of Funds Management

Alastair has held executive positions in the banking and financial services industry for over 27 years in the UK, USA and Australia. Prior to joining InvestSMART in 2014, he held Director positions with Aurora Funds Limited, Challenger and Salomon Smith Barney. Alastair has an Honours degree in Economics from the University of St Andrews and is currently the Treasurer of the Centenary Institute of Medical Research, Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Centenary Institute Endowment Fund and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland.

Nathan Bell Head of Research & Portfolio Management

Nathan discovered value investing after spending nine years as an accountant, including five at Deutsche Bank that ended in 2006, and has been with Intelligent Investor ever since. He is a CFA charter holder and his experience has guided our strong performance since 2011.

Gaurav Sodhi Deputy Head of Research

Gaurav Sodhi is a keen boxer and a trained economist. His successful track record as a private investor and a lifelong fascination with rocks and minerals lead to him becoming Intelligent Investor’s resources analyst in 2009. As well as resources, Gaurav covers telecommunications and power infrastructure.

John Addis Editor

John Addis founded Intelligent Investor in 1998. Having returned as the editor of Intelligent Investor after selling the business in 2004, John now gets to indulge his favourite interests: the shape and form of words; investing psychology; the odd, fascinating and frustrating world of macroeconomics; and great stock opportunities.

Graham Witcomb Senior Analyst

Graham has a degree in Psychology from the University of Sydney and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. He previously worked for one of the world’s most successful professional gamblers and joined the research team in early 2013 after spending several years in Canada completing the Chartered Financial Analyst program. Graham’s focus is on the healthcare, gambling and transport infrastructure sectors.

Nick Cummings Analyst

Nick is a style agnostic investor with a passion for running and annual reports. He has a degree in Finance from Westminster College (Utah, United States). Upon returning to Australia, he worked as an analyst focusing primarily on international businesses. He joined Intelligent Investor in 2022.

Alan Kohler, AM Founder-Eureka Report

Alan Kohler is one of Australia's most experienced business commentators. Alan has been a trusted source of investment advice to Australians for many years, and in 2005 he founded Eureka Report - Australia's #1 online investment report. Along with Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz, Alan also founded Business Spectator, the popular business news and commentary website now owned by News Corp. He has been a columnist and editor at the Australian Financial Review and The Age. Alan is the regular finance presenter on the ABC News and producer of the popular nightly graph (or two) and writes a regular column for the New Daily.

Robert Gottliebsen Financial Commentator

Robert Gottliebsen is one of Australia's most respected investment experts and has been a key commentator on Australian business and finance for over three decades. Robert co-founded Eureka Report in 2005, was the founding editor of Business Review Weekly, and has written for the Australian Financial Review and The Australian.

Elizabeth Moran Income Strategist

Elizabeth has worked in financial markets for more than 25 years in education, credit analysis and communication for retail and institutional banks and other financial institutions.

She is editorial director at Fixed Income News Australia and was previously director of education and research at FIIG Securities, specialising in bonds, hybrids and deposits. Earlier roles include a stint in London as a credit rating analyst for NatWest Markets and as an analyst for CBA in Melbourne. For more than seven years she had a regular column in The Australian.

Tim Treadgold Commodities Journalist

Tim Treadgold has been reporting on the Australian resources sector since the nickel boom of the late 1960s after a brief, but unspectacular, stint studying geology, which clashed with an opportunity to enter the world of journalism. Over the past 40 years, he has written for publications including AFR, Reuters, Forbes, Mining Journal and The West Australian.

He writes a fortnightly column for Eureka Report, with a special focus on mining and oil stocks, and tracks the perpetual motion game of supply chasing demand, whether of fossil fuels or of future-facing commodities.

Steve Sammartino Technology Commentator

Steve is Australia's leading futurist, the host of Channel 9's The Rebound and author of two books on disruptive technology: "The Great Fragmentation" and "The Lessons School Forgot".

Steve has delivered keynote speeches to over 500,000 people across 40 countries and is a technology commentator for the ABC. He has been featured on the BBC, The Smithsonian Institute, The Discovery Channel, Mashable and Wired.

The co - founder of Macro3D, an AI & robotics - focused construction company, Steve has built and sold a number of software firms.He is currently on the board of the NSW Treasury Innovation & Productivity Council and advises a number of ASX top 30 firms on technology strategy.