Head of Fund Management and Responsible Manager at Defender Asset Management Pty Ltd
Corporate Advisory · Finance · Corporate Finance · Financial Analysis · Asset Management
Director at Bare Media Holdings and Bare Media
Responsible for Board management, financial reporting, financial account preparation and reporting, and contract negotiation.
During his employment, the company has attained about 100 percent annual growth for the past two years and successfully applied for, received, and implemented a substantial, ongoing government advisory agency contract.
Director at Broadfoot Group Pty Ltd
Corporate Advisory · Finance · Corporate Finance · Financial Analysis
Chief Financial Officer at Distributed Storage Solutions Limited
Corporate Advisory · Finance · Corporate Finance · Financial Analysis
Senior Corporate Officer at a NASDAQ-listed digital infrastructure company
2022–2024: Chief Corporate Officer
2021–2022: Operations Director, Australia
Corporate Advisory · Finance · Financial Analysis
Working with a small executive team, Tim contributed to successfully executing a reverse takeover of a U.S. firm and listing the combined company on the NASDAQ stock exchange within eight months—a major highlight of his role. Additionally, Tim expanded operational capacity despite challenging market conditions that affected both workers and global freight.
Director at Tasmania Data Infrastructure
Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary at American Patriot Oil and Gas Limited
In order to guarantee ASX listing compliance, Tim oversees the Board and provides financial reporting and public company governance. Financial account preparation and forensic accounting have been part of this.
Notably, by performing a forensic accounting study on historical management transactions, the team was able to successfully resolve numerous concerns.
Family Office Investment Analyst at Defender Investment Management
Tim was in charge of overseeing the entire spectrum of operations for wholesale funds and conducting investment analysis in this capacity. This covered financial modeling and reporting, investment management, financial services license compliance, investment memorandum development, and investor fundraising. Notably, he was able to establish, launch, and expand three new investment vehicles.
Corporate Advisory at Cosmos Capital Limited
Tim managed reporting, shareholders, tax compliance, capital raising, and Asset Management fund preparation for NASDAQ Capital Markets. He successfully completed a reverse takeover and moderate-scale capital raisings, creating value and liquidity for shareholders.
General Manager at Acero Construction Pvt Ltd
He was in charge of client communications, legal document production and review, government tender applications, quality control, staff management, and reporting in his capacity as general manager of Acero and its affiliated companies. Highlights of this position include completing numerous public and private construction projects, growing the company five times in just four years, and guaranteeing the timely and high-quality delivery of a supply contract for 199 precast modular floors in accordance with mine site specifications.
James is the CEO of Sharon AI.
His career has spanned over 22 years across technology, finance, property development and funds management.
James has built and monetized over 300MW of energy infrastructure across Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas and Australia.
James has completed a Master of Business (Finance) and a Master’s in Property Development from the University of Technology Sydney, as well as a Bachelor of Accounting from ACU.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors (FAICD), and a Fellow of Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).
Nick has over 18 years’ experience across financial markets, technology and energy infrastructure.
Starting his career at multi-billion-dollar asset manager Bell Financial Group (ASX:BFG) where he served for 12 years before building and managing 100 modular data centres across 200MW of energy infrastructure in the USA and Australia while working in a senior leadership role at a NASDAQ-listed digital infrastructure company.
David Burns is Chief Operating Officer of Sharon AI, bringing more than 35 years of experience leading and transforming technology, telecommunications and services businesses across Australia, the United States, Europe and Asia. Throughout his career, he has built and scaled businesses, led complex operational transformations and delivered sustained financial and customer outcomes across rapidly evolving technology markets.
As COO, David leads Sharon AI’s operational strategy and execution, drawing on decades of experience across technology services, managed services, infrastructure, customer delivery and large-scale transformation. His combination of commercial discipline, operational leadership and customer focus helps ensure Sharon AI can execute at pace and scale as a global AI infrastructure platform.
Anuj Goel brings more than 20 years of experience across technology investment banking, capital markets and corporate finance. Throughout his career, he has advised companies, founders and investors on growth, capital raisings and strategic transformation, with deep expertise spanning technology, telecommunications, media and digital infrastructure.
Before joining Sharon AI as CFO, Anuj was Head of Technology, APAC at Macquarie Capital, where he advised on many of Australia’s most significant technology and digital infrastructure transactions.
Dan Mons brings over two decades of leadership experience in the technology sector across 10 countries.
He has led the technical design, security planning, and training teams for government, AI/ML, media, HPC, research, finance, and software development in Australia, the US, the UK, Asia, and Europe. Dan is committed to driving effective change while maintaining security objectives and ensuring team members deliver business success and meet customer needs.
Wolf Schubert is the Country Manager – USA of Sharon AI. His career has spanned over 25 years across technology, capital markets and risk management (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch).
Most recently he ran part of the institutional business at BlockFi, a fintech startup. Before that he held senior roles at Vista Equity Partners and Strategic Value Partners, where he was Chief Risk Officer.
Ross has over 25 years of capital markets experience in both the US and Australia, where he was most recently Head of Technology Equity Research at Wilsons Advisory. Prior to his 5 years at Wilsons, he was at Citigroup for 14 years, where he was Head of Small Caps Research.
Ross is best known for his combined knowledge of both financial markets and digital infrastructure, the result of 19 years of equity research and 13 years of continuous coverage of NextDC, one of SharonAI’s key partners.
Kathleen Manning brings more than a decade of management and people-leadership experience across hospitality, health, and professional services. With formal qualifications in Business and Psychology, she blends commercial strength with a deep understanding of human behaviour to create engaged, high-performing teams and sustainable organisational culture.
Kathleen has held senior leadership roles including Director at Defender Asset Management and Head of HR for the Defender Tourism Fund, where she oversaw large, multi-site teams, modernised HR systems, strengthened compliance frameworks, and supported rapid business expansion. She has also completed the AICD Company Secretary Course, enhancing her governance and executive-level capability.
Kathleen now leads the HR function at Sharon AI, bringing her strategic mindset, operational excellence, and people-first approach to support the organisation’s growth and culture as it scales.
Linton is a recognized growth leader in the Australian and APAC tech landscape with over 25 years of leadership at global technology icons including IBM, Microsoft, and Rackspace. Most recently serving as CRO at Vault Cloud, he brings specialized expertise in scaling high-security, critical infrastructure. At Sharon AI, Linton spearheads global commercial operations and revenue strategy, ensuring sovereign AI infrastructure scales to meet the mission-critical needs of enterprise and government partners.
Melissa Anastasiou is Chief Legal Officer of Sharon AI, bringing nearly 30 years of legal and executive leadership experience across telecommunications, technology and digital infrastructure.
Throughout her career, she has experience advising boards and executive teams on corporate governance, complex commercial transactions, regulatory engagement, mergers and acquisitions, privacy, cyber matters and AI governance.
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