Coogee Capital partners with founder-led private companies and family businesses to assist them realise a path to liquidity. We invest capital into the business to take a minority equity position and then work collaboratively with the founder and their management team to unlock the true value of the business ahead of a future liquidity event. Our team are experienced entrepreneurs in their own right and offer an alternative approach to traditional private equity- we are hands on business builders who have been through the challenges of founder succession and management team development, building systems for growth, undertaking acquisitions, improving corporate governance, financing, digitalising businesses and exit processes. If you are leading a business with a strong trading history, healthy cashflows (minimum $5m EBITDA), attractive growth prospects and a dynamic management team and looking for some help to take your business on the next leg of its journey, then we would be delighted to have a chat to discuss how we might work together. Coogee Capital’s two principals are David Baxby and Tom Hardwick. David started his career in Investment Banking with Rothschild and Goldman Sachs before joining Richard Branson’s family office in 2004 as the CEO of Asia Pacific, before moving to Geneva and assuming responsibility for all travel and tourism investments and was appointed Global Co-CEO a few years later. In 2017 David returned to Australia and joined Wesfarmers as the Managing Director of its Industrials business until 2020. Tom started his professional life as a lawyer with Corrs Chambers Westgarth before moving into investment banking and funds management. Tom became CEO of Guardian Early Learning Group in 2010 and grew it from 17 centres to more than 100 centres over the next 8 years, partnering with 3 private equity firms to create a $500m+ business.