Meet Kinesis.

Thomas Coughlin

Chief Executive Officer

Thomas Coughlin is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kinesis Limited as well as Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX). He has worked in the investment, funds management and bullion industries for approximately seventeen years. His professional portfolio management career spans the foundation of the boutique investment company, TRAC Financial, to the establishment of a highly successful Absolute Return Fund.

Thomas has dedicated a significant part of his career working collaboratively to build the complex systems of a cross-border international bullion market with an extensive global network of central bankers, brokers, fund managers and advisers. His experience, extensive network and broad knowledge of capital markets, enable him to deliver exceptional value and insight to all stakeholders.

Michael-Coughlin

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Coughlin is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX). His tertiary accountancy education was completed at the University of Southern Queensland, with Post Graduate studies at the University of Queensland in Economics, and Canberra University in Taxation Law. Michael has a total of 41 years experience as a CPA in the accountancy and financial services professions. He has owned and operated a Brisbane-based public accountancy firm and financial services company since 1984. Awarded a Cadetship with the Australian Taxation Office in 1973, he worked in the assessing, business audit and investigation areas of the Australian Taxation Office, and eventually in the Interpretation and Advising Branch of the Taxation Office’s Head Office in Canberra until November 1979, at which time he commenced in public practice.

David Charles

Group Special Counsel

David Charles is a Director of the Allocated Bullion Exchange. A lawyer by trade, David has protected and advanced the interests of some of the largest and most prominent entities in the world, across four continents. David’s experience spans corporate structuring, domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and private equity, insurance, intellectual property and planning & environment law. David holds a Bachelor of Laws (Commercial Law) from the University of Queensland and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice. He is admitted/registered in several jurisdictions worldwide.

David Underwood

Non-Executive Director

David Underwood graduated as a teacher from the University of Southern Queensland in 1974 and worked with the Queensland Department of Education until 1977. During his time in Queensland Parliament he was the Shadow Minister of Health, Education, Tourism and National Parks serving numerous Parliamentary Committees. Following his resignation from Parliament, he was a consultant to business and industry for a number of years prior to becoming the Mayor of Ipswich City for four years until local government amalgamation of Ipswich City and Moreton Shire in 1995. David has been a shareholder in ABX since its inception, and brings a wealth of experience and policy expertise to the Board.

Eric Maine

Chief Strategy Officer

Eric Maine has more than 30 years of senior management experience in the exchange and financial markets. His most recent positions in the Asia Pacific Region included Director of Market Development at the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx), Head of Product Development and Management at Singapore Exchange (SGX), and Head of Product & Research at Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX). Eric has also held positions at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and the New York Board of Trade.

Jim Lawie

Interim Chief Technology Officer

Having originally started his career as a developer, Jim now has over 20 years experience in Programme & IT Management with various global technology teams including those at HSBC, UBS & RBS.

During that time he has lead geographically diverse teams delivering a variety of IT solutions across front, middle and back office for different financial services.

Jim recently held the position of Head of Delivery at the London Metal Exchange (LME) driving IT change and transformation across the exchange while ensuring reliable and performant systems and platforms.

Jai Bifulco

Chief Marketing Officer

Prior to joining Kinesis as Chief Marketing Officer, Jai has spent over 13 years honing his expertise as an award-winning full-stack marketer in finance and technology, where he held the role of director in multiple FCA and ASIC-regulated CFD brokers as well as consulting to the mining, banking and fintech sectors. An advocate of results-based marketing activity, Jai has steered a multi-million dollar fundraising efforts during a previous ICO, as well as $10m+ investment in mining ventures across Africa. His rare ability to focus on the bottom line as well as offer creative inspiration and innovation has been acknowledged by the City of London Wealth Management Awards.

Jai brings a global perspective to each role, having worked with both start-ups and household names all around the world. Furthermore, his expertise in the finance, mining, and blockchain industries, allow him an unprecedented and unique perspective in driving Kinesis’ vision.

Richard Melbourne

Chief Operating Officer

Richard Melbourne is Head of Operations at Allocated Bullion Exchange (ABX). Richard has spent the past decade within the Financial Services industry as senior investment advisor and head of operations at both boutique specialty investment firms, along with internationally respected investment houses. Richard has always been in customer facing roles and understands the significant value of delivering excellence in customer experience.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Business, majoring in both management and finance from Griffith University and has also studied international markets abroad at The University of Sheffield in the UK. His experience building relationships with institutional and sophisticated clients, each from highly varying industries, underpins the unrivaled level of customer satisfaction he aims to deliver in this role.

Gert Erasmus

Head of IT Technical Delivery

Gert started his IT career almost two decades ago as a software developer, during that time he has been a part of teams that have successfully delivered various greenfield software and digital development products in conjunction with system rewrites. During the delivery of these projects Gert's roles have included that of product owner, scrum master, project manager and lead developer.

Gert is a value driven, business focused, IT servant leader that believes IT teams exist to enable businesses to achieve greater heights, efficiency and business performance.

Christiaan Roesch

Head of Operations - Africa

Christiaan is a highly respected entrepreneur with a passion for business and the growth acquired through entrepreneurship. Christiaan has developed a strong knowledge base in the finance, mining, energy and IT industries. Further to this, Christiaan founded and co-founded several start-ups and provided the necessary drive and entrepreneurial flair for business growth

Christiaan has also signed various exclusive distribution agreements with top technology companies world-wide which includes partnerships with IT companies in Sri-Lanka, Brazil and the UK.

Martín Aguilar

Head of Operations - LatAm

Martin has more than 20 years of experience in driving profitable sales growth and product development in leading start-ups. He has been well recognized with the ability to lead new strategic processes and implementations for business in multiple distribution channels across Latin America.

Having previously been responsible as Director of International Business Development for a large investment company, Martin was able to increase production growth from USD$18 M to USD$35 M whilst increasing South America global participation.