Naomi Rosenthal

JP, AFP^® , M App Fin (FP), BA (Psych), F Fin

Director | Financial Adviser

Corporate Authorised Representative Professional Wealth Services Advice Pty Ltd

Authorised Representative No. 269088

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Naomi has a Masters in Applied Finance (Financial Planning) and two decades of experience in the finance industry, having worked for a major Bank in her early career before moving into private practice. She is passionate about assisting her clients to build, manage and protect their wealth.

Naomi specialise in providing bespoke financial solutions for professional and self-employed women and their families. As a new mum, Naomi understands the unique pressures and challenges working women face while raising a family and seeks to provide holistic, comprehensive and strategic financial plans that caters to a families’ priorities.

Naomi’s passion is to assist her clients to build, manage and protect their wealth ensuring their financial future is secure through advice, education and support services.

Naomi has found her strengths lie in:

• Turning comprehensive technical complexities into easy to understand outcomes;
• Devising solutions that fit within client budgets and objectives;
• Coordinating, organizing and implementing strategies in a systematic and effective manner; and
• Educating and empowering her clients to make good financial choices in life.

Don Jeffers

JP, CFP^®, Dip FP

Managing Director | Financial Adviser

Corporate Authorised Representative Professional Wealth Services Advice Pty Ltd. 

Authorised Representative No. 253025

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After six years as an Australian army officer, Don entered the financial planning industry in 1980. During his career Don has helped clients ranging from those just starting out to individuals requiring the development of strategic financial plans and ongoing management for portfolios valued in the millions. Don has also worked at senior national levels in several management roles, is a sought-after public speaker and has presented numerous papers at industry forums.

Don has qualified as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), the highest internationally recognised qualification within the industry. He holds a Diploma in Financial Planning from RMIT University and has completed extensive training in the specialised area of Self Managed Superannuation. He is also a Justice of the Peace.

Don is active within a number of professional associations, the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and the Self Managed Superannuation Fund Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA).

Yosha Steeghs

JP, AFP^®, BBus, Adv Dip FS (FP)

Director | Financial Adviser

Corporate Authorised Representative Professional Wealth Services Advice Pty Ltd

Authorised Representative No. 352050

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Yosha joined our team with a strong background in advice. He has a passion for building relationships and working with individuals to grow their wealth and to live the lifestyle of which they dream. Yosha has worked within the boutique, full-service financial advice industry since 2008.

Yosha holds a Bachelor degree in Banking and Finance and International Business, the Advanced Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning), Certificate IV in Finance and Mortgage Broking as well as specialist accreditation across Self Managed Superannuation Funds and Listed Securities.

Yosha holds the Associate Financial Planner designation with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and is a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA).

Jonathan Young CFA, CA

BCom, GradDipAcc, Dip FP, SMSF Specialist Advisor™

Director | Financial Adviser | Research Manager

Corporate Authorised Representative Professional Wealth Services Advice Pty Ltd

Authorised Representative No. 1261742

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Jonathan is passionate about helping clients achieve their financial goals and provides high-quality financial advice with integrity and honesty. He began his career in auditing, progressing to audit manager, before joining the financial services industry. He has 12 years of experience working for large international institutions including HSBC Private Bank and Northern Trust in the UK, and AMP in Australia. His various roles with these institutions have included managing client relationships for high net worth clients and various finance and team management roles for funds and corporates.

Jonathan is also our Research Manager, utilising the investment knowledge he has gained over his career as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder. In this capacity, Jonathan provides ongoing review and oversight of all new and existing products recommended by PWS.

Alexandria Thomaschuetz

Dip FS (FP), Practitioner Member AFA

Corporate Relations Partner

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Alex has worked within the life insurance industry in various roles since 2002. Mentored by one of the industry greats, she discovered her passion for and the value of delivering life insurance services after a co-worker went through an income protection claim.

Alex achieved recognition for her skills and enthusiasm in the industry very early on in her career, and is a proud finalist of two industry-recognised awards in 2006 and 2014.

Her persistence with an insurer meant that their policy definition was improved nationally, and this persistence is not lost when she is helping her clients obtain cover or claim on it.

Alex’s knowledge and experience with serving the legal professional market mean that she is always across the market leading insurance definitions, so that her clients are well informed and well protected.

Mike Freeman

LL.B., Grad Dip FP, ANZIIF (Fellow)

Compliance Manager

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Mike is our Compliance Manager and has over 34 years’ experience in the financial services industry in various technical and managerial roles.

Prior to joining PWS he held senior compliance roles in financial services including licensing and audits/reviews for a major insurer, general insurance brokerages and numerous financial planning firms and their representatives.

Mike earned a degree in law from the Australian National University in Canberra and holds a practicing certificate as a solicitor and barrister in NSW. He is also a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and holds a Diploma in Personal Financial Planning from the University of Southern Queensland.

Mike is responsible for conducting our AFS Licensee and Representative Reviews, managing our compliance requirements with various government regulatory bodies and general compliance management.

Kirstin Young

BCom (Acc), FCCA®

Financial Controller

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Kirstin began her career in auditing in South Africa and obtained extensive experience in the audit and accounting of a wide range of industries. Subsequently she worked as a financial analyst with the Royal Bank of Canada in the Channel Islands before relocating to Australia and joining PWS.

Kirstin is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and has joined PWS as our financial controller.

Bilal Wazirzada

BCom (Acc), Grad Dip FP

Client Service Officer

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Bilal has a strong academic background in Financial Planning from Kaplan Professional (Grad Dip FP) and Accounting from Macquarie University (BCom Acc) and has worked in client services, retail and administration since 2011.

He enjoys working in the financial services industry due to its dynamic character. His role at PWS allows him to combine his experience in client service with his interest in financial services, enabling him to provide an efficient and complete personalised experience to all PWS clients. Bilal provides the day-to-day support to our executive financial planners and ensures that PWS’ valued clients’ financial needs and requirements are administered accordingly.

Sonia Fung

BA (Maths & Fin)

Senior Paraplanner

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Sonia Fung is our paraplanner and has been working in the financial planning industry since 2011. Previous roles include Client Services Manager for a financial advisory firm, Marketing Assistant and a PR internship.

She was born in Hong Kong and moved to Sydney in 2005. She holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance from University of Technology, Sydney.

Beheshteh Sabeti

BCompSc

Client Service Officer

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Beheshteh has been working in the financial planning industry for the past two years and has many years of experience in the finance industry in administrative roles. Her previous roles include Settlement Officer at an asset finance company, Assistant Fund Manager and back office support with stockbrokers.

Beheshteh was born in Iran and moved to Australia in 1992. She has a bachelor degree in Computer Science.

Cindy Pham

Dip Mktg, Cert IV Customer Engagement

Client Service Officer

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Cindy comes from a background of customer service and has over 17 years of customer service experience.

She is dedicated to providing exceptional assistance to a diverse range of clientele and always has a positive outlook.

Cindy holds an Advanced Certificate in Office Administration, Diploma in Marketing, Certificate 4 Customer Service.

Charmaine Lubbe

Project Coordinator

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Charmaine joins our team with over 25 years customer service and operations experience.

She is multi skilled in business operations, strategic solutions, team management, analysis and account management.  Charmaine is extremely passionate about finding ways to continuously improve processes and in doing so, enhance the overall customer experience.

One of the previous projects Charmaine holds close to her heart is where she defined, trained and improved compliance to the Standard Operating Procedures . This resulted in effective and efficient client communications and resolutions.

Justin Ishac, CFP®

B.Econ, Adv Dip FS (FP)

Financial Adviser 

Corporate Authorised Representative Ishac Financial Planning Pty Ltd

Authorised Representative No. 1255128

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Justin is a Certified Financial Planner and a member of the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA). He specialises in providing holistic advice to individuals and families to assist in protecting and growing wealth.

Combining a deep understanding of technology and expertise in financial planning, he aims to provide an engaging and collaborative client experience. He empowers confidence at times of uncertainty by delivering clear and practical advice.

Justin holds a Bachelor of Economics with a major in Finance and Economics from the University of NSW, and has also completed the professional financial planner certification (CFP) as well as specialist accreditations in listed securities, age-care and self-managed superannuation.

Victoria Zavrazhnova

Paraplanner

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Victoria moved to Australia in 2012, and after graduating with a Master of Accounting at Flinders University, found her passion in the financial planning industry as being the right hand of the financial adviser, undertaking thorough research, analysis and assisting with products and strategies. She worked in a private financial planning practice as well as in corporate settings for a large Australian institution.

Victoria has completed her Advanced Financial Planning Diploma and is working towards an SMSF qualification to keep up with the ever changing regulatory environment and educational standards, as well as be able to provide fully qualified professional assistance to the advisers in shaping a better future for their clients. Victoria is proud to be part of the PWS team assisting advisers in providing quality advice with integrity and honesty and delivering a personalised experience to all PWS clients.

John Abbott

MBA

Personnel Consultant

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John has worked with organisations in Australia, North America, UK and Europe, accruing broad business consulting, personnel selection and management experience across many industries and markets.

Educated in both Australia and the UK, John holds an MBA and other financial qualifications. His expertise includes consulting roles with multinational enterprises involving business and financial modelling, predictive talent analytics, performance metric development and team optimisation. We are delighted to have John assisting PWS in the selection and development of our team.