Meet our
Team

Fat Prophets was established in 2000 by Founder & CIO Angus Geddes. Since then, we have been undertaking market research and manging wealth for thousands of clients. The success of our business is attributed to our Senior Management and our Teams, including Research, Wealth Management, Client Services and Operations.

The Fat Prophets team all share the mission of making your investments as FAT as possible. Our Mantra is professionalism and transparency, leading to quality and efficient investment decisions, which in turn benefits our Members in every kind of market. 

Senior Management

Angus Geddes

Founder & CIO

Angus has a wealth of experience acquired over more than three decades in both domestic and international financial markets. Aside from running the Fat Prophets group, Angus has broad investment responsibilities within the Funds Management division, which manages close to $400 million.
Angus's investment track record began in 1982 at the young age of 13. In 1986 he received a ``highly commended`` award from the New Zealand Chamber of Commerce for increasing an initial investment of $200 to $35,000 on the world stock markets.
During his career, Angus has worked as a money market dealer in New Zealand, a financial consultant in the United Kingdom and the United States. Moving to Australia in 1996, Angus worked for five years as a stockbroker at Bankers Trust and JB Were before co-founding Fat Prophets in June 2000.
Angus completed a Bachelor of Commerce at Otago University (NZ) in 1990. He is also a member of the Securities Institute of Australia having qualified for a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment in 1999. Outside of work, Angus enjoys golf, skiing, sailing and Bikram Yoga.

Patrick Ganley

Head of Wealth Management

Patrick has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services Sector.
His primary role is to develop the Wealth Management Division of the company, managing relationships with both new and existing clients plus looking to grow the overall Wealth Management offering and business.
He holds a degree in Finance and Marketing, and Kaplan RG 146 accreditations in General, Securities, Managed Investments, and Superannuation General Advice.

Matthew Phillips

Chief Executive Officer

Matthew joined Fat Prophets in 2024 as Chief Executive Officer, after working in Private Equity with Nightingale Partners.
Matthew got his start back in 2012 with Fat Prophets as a Premium Account Manager before spending 5 years in London, helping build two start-ups in the Fin-tech and Reg-tech space, exiting the Fin-tech (Moola) to JLT in 2019. Matt later worked as a consultant for a SaaS business, helping them to establish operations in the UK, Europe, South Africa, and North America.
Returning to Australia, Matthew spent the last 2.5 years at Nightingale Partners as an Investment Analyst, sitting on the board of several portfolio companies. Focusing on both debt and equity fundraising, deal sourcing, international acquisition of a Brazilian mapping company within one of the portfolio businesses and portfolio management.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Professional Accounting degree from Macquarie University, completing part of his studies at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE) in Lisbon, Portugal.

Research Team

Andrew Blackmore

Equity Analyst

Andrew joined Fat Prophets at the beginning of 2011 to support the research team analyzing a range of international equities. Andrew began his career in the finance industry in 2000 after having previously worked in the IT industry at IBM Global Services. Having previously been a personal investor in the stock market for several years he moved into an analyst role for an Australian Equities fund at a top 100 ASX listed financial services company. Initially his focus was on the TMT and Healthcare industries, but this soon broadened to a wider range.
In the interim period Andrew was part of investment teams that invested in a range of unlisted and listed investment opportunities. These included private equity deals that had international co-investors from the US, Europe and Asia. Before joining Fat Prophets he worked at an absolute return fund focused on international equities.
Andrew completed a Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma in Finance from the University of Otago, New Zealand and a Master of Commerce from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Andre Mikhail Obierez

Equity Analyst

André joined Fat Prophets in February 2015, and is an analyst in the Asian Equities research team. He works out of our office in the Philippines, with his research coverage focussed on investment opportunities within the Asian region. After earning his undergraduate degree in 2012, André started his career in Finance as a stockbroker with Regina Capital before moving on to a research role at Meridian Securities where his focus was primarily in Banking, Consumer, and Utilities sectors. He also taught Finance classes at the University of San Jose-Recoletos before joining Fat Prophets.

André holds a degree in Entrepreneurship with a Minor in Economics. He is also currently working on his Masters degree.

Wealth Management

Patrick Ganley

Head of Wealth Management

Patrick has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services Sector.
His primary role is to develop the Wealth Management Division of the company, managing relationships with both new and existing clients plus looking to grow the overall Wealth Management offering and business.
He holds a degree in Finance and Marketing, and Kaplan RG 146 accreditations in General, Securities, Managed Investments, and Superannuation General Advice.
Simon Wheatley

Simon Wheatley

Property & REITS Manager

Simon has over 20 years of listed markets experience, having started out in real estate equity research in 1996, before heading real estate equity research teams for JB Were and Goldman Sachs from 1999. Simon was head of international equity research for Goldman Sachs JBWere (GSJBW) based in New York from 2005 where he was also broker dealer licencee of the US business, was a member of the Australian Investment Review Committee for Goldman Sachs Equity Research, and was a long term partner at GSJBW. Additionally he has had successful private business ventures, and most recently headed Real Estate Corporate Advisory for Australia and New Zealand for Goldman Sachs.

Client Services

Roger Malik

Senior Account Manager

Roger has degrees in Law & Business Administration and has 18 years of experience in managing multiple operations in Australia, NZ, Asia and Middle East.

As our Head of Client Services, Roger and his team are responsible for Member experience, retention and business development.

He is RG146 securities qualified and he helps many self-funded and professional investors in the Financial Markets and also hosts our Member Webinars with our Research Team.

Edward Alam

Senior Account Manager

Since 2011, Edward has been a senior member of the Fat Prophets team. Over 20 years of financial markets experience working with self-guided and professional investors. RG146 Securities qualified along with over 30 years of business acumen managing multiple businesses prior to working with Fat Prophets.

Christopher Balafas

Senior Account Manager

Chris has been with Fat Prophets for 11 years now including 5 years in the London office and is part of our Senior team.

He is very enthusiastic about the stock markets and working with members on the FTSE and the European markets.

Chris has a keen interest in helping members with their queries and has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to different Global Indices

He is an avid sports enthusiast, representing Sydney Swans as a junior and the Parramatta Eels.