Our Team
Sean Martin
Director
Sean Martin is a co-founder of Belmont Capital Management and prior to this he was a co-founder, Director and CIO of Solaris Investment Management. During his 16 years there, the boutique grew from a startup to managing funds in excess of A$14b.
Sean started his funds management career in 1996 at Schroders in Sydney and has been managing Australian equities portfolios ever since.
Tom Barraket
Director
Tom is a co-founder of Belmont Capital Management. He is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics, graduating with Honours from the University of Sydney.
Tom has been in financial markets for over 17 years starting his career with Bank of Scotland Treasury, before joining Commonwealth Bank of Australia. At Commonwealth Bank Tom was responsible for managing several commodities portfolios out of Sydney and London. He has deep knowledge of Commodities and Carbon markets, and prior to his departure he was Head Portfolio Manager for the Carbon and Agricultural Commodities Business, controlling assets in excess of A$12b.
Laura Cotter
Director
Laura manages the Privacy, AI and Compliance side of the Belmont business.
She is an Australian qualified solicitor and data protection specialist with more than 1O years experience. Before joining Belmont Laura was an in-house lawyer for CBRE and the GWS Global Head of Data Privacy spending time in both Sydney and London. Prior to this Laura worked with Matthews Dalton in Sydney, and First Derivatives in Ireland.
She has a Bachelor of Civil Law and Masters of Commercial Law both from University College, Dublin, and is a qualified lawyer in NSW, Australia.