![]() Simone Haslinger Chief Executive Officer, East Coast Capital Management Simone is chief executive and is responsible for business development and strategy for the ECCM group. Simone joined ECCM with 20 years of investment banking experience. From 2010 to 2024, she worked with J.P. Morgan, including most recently as co-head of Equity Capital Markets. From 2005-2010 she was an equity capital markets executive with Deutsche Bank. Simone holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She is a Member of Chief Executive Women and an Affiliate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
SIMONE HASLINGER | FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2026 An investment risk framework is often shaped by investors' personal history unconsciously, an expert says. Read more PAGE: 1 |
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Advice with soul
SACHA BURCHGART
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
BURCHEART PTY LTD
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
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Though she initially tried, Sacha Burchgart couldn't escape the call of a career in financial advice; it just took staring down her own mortality to see what's possible when you do things differently. Jamie Williamson writes.








